Tag: health

Watch: Jenny Billings: Implementation Science and Integrated Care

SUSTAIN: optimising care for older patients living at home Professor of Applied Health Research Jenny Billings discusses the ‘trailblazing’ SUSTAIN project in a new short video taken at a recent project partners’ meeting in Oxford. SUSTAIN aims to improve established integrated care (IC) initiatives for older people living at home with multiple health and social …

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Video: Stephen Peckham addresses European Public Health Conference

CHSS Director in Vienna on ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’ CHSS Director Stephen Peckham addressed an audience of European Public Health specialists in Vienna earlier today.  His session, ‘Achieving Health in Fragmented Systems’ examined existing systems and the complex problems and interconnected relationships between public health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease, and environmental issues such …

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CHSS Open Lecture 6 October 2016

CHSS Open Lecture, 6pm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 Darwin Conference Suite, University of Kent, Canterbury We are delighted to announce our third CHSS Annual Open Lecture: ‘Remote video consultations: Expectation, hubris, hype and evidence’, by Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care Sciences, Nuffield Dept of Primary Healthcare Sciences, University of Oxford The lecture is preceded by a drinks reception …

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CHSS Newsletter Winter 2015/16

Latest research updates from the Centre for Health Services Studies  In our first Newsletter of 2016, we report on CHSS’ exciting new partnership with local Vanguard site ‘Encompass’ – part of the NHS England new models of care programme. Director Stephen Peckham sets out his vision for the collaboration and how it will benefit patients …

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CHSS Director’s BBC radio interview – accessing NHS dentists in Kent

Are you struggling to get an NHS Dentist in Kent? Kent’s Senior Dental Contracts Manager has advised BBC Radio Kent that if you live in West Kent you may struggle to get an NHS Dentist close to where you live.  On the breakfast show on 06 January, Professor Stephen Peckham, Director and Professor of Health …

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