News roundup

There are just a few hours left to listen to Steve Harris' feature on BBC Radio Solent which highlights the research work Jane Burridge, Ann-Marie Hughes and team are undertaking in stroke rehabilitation. Steve visited Health Sciences a few weeks ago to talk to Dr Hughes and explore the work that goes on here.  The feature was part of a week-long series on the show of living with stroke.

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We're looking forward to welcoming former mental health nurse, columnist for the Nursing Times, and published author, Mark Radcliffe, to our Faculty.  Mark will be reading a short excerpt from his latest novel ‘Stranger than Kindness'. The ‘open to all' talk is on Tuesday 12 November from 4- 5pm in Building 67, Room 1003, and it promises to be a bit different.  Follow the link above to register.

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The voluntary work of a physiotherapy graduate from 2012, Clare Whistler, is featured in an amazing video in Bolivia with Projects Abroad. Head of the Global Information Office for Projects Abroad, Mark Wijsman, said of Clare "Thanks to her experience and skills, she has made a valuable and worthwhile contribution to her project and is a credit to your institute."  Well done Clare!

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Congratulations to Sophia Hulbert who passed her MPhil/ PhD transfer viva last week. She confidently defended her research and we are very proud of her.

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The Borneo Bulletin, independent newspaper in Brunei, has featured the attendance of PhD student Sani Kamis at the 21st World Congress of Podiatry in Rome, Italy.  Sani features in the pictures taken at the event alongside his PhD supervisor, Cathy Bowen.

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Congratulations to Anne Baileff and her team on the recent news that their application to the HCPC for a major change in the part-time Independent and Supplementary Prescribing to enable us to prepare AHPs to become independent prescribers has been approved and will be ratified by the HCPC in December.  We will start taking students in our next cohort which starts in January 2014.

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