Jul 31
Our latest CHSS Newsletter is now available to read or download on our website. We hope you will enjoy our latest news, events, publications and staff updates, including: a report on the highly successful CHSS pre-election health policy debate our recent KAPCU (Kent Academic Primary Care Unit) seminar exploring how primary care and mental health services can …
May 05
NB: closing date for applications is now (midnight) 3 July 2017 interviews take place during week commencing 10 July 2017 CHSS (Centre for Health Services Studies) is currently inviting applications for a PhD scholarship in applied health research in partnership with Bexley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), to commence September 2017. This scholarship is provided …
Jan 30
A CHSS evaluation report of the effectiveness of 12-week physical activity intervention ‘Let’s Get Moving’ (LGM) has been published. Developed by the NHS and the Department of Health, LGM uses motivational interviewing to promote positive changes in health behaviour. Not-for-profit body ukactive, delivered LGM through two GP surgeries in north Kent, in partnership with Dartford, …
Jan 09
In a BBC Radio Kent Breakfast interview today, CHSS Director and Canterbury resident Stephen Peckham supported action to reduce traffic congestion and improve air quality in the city of Canterbury. Air quality breaches directives, and there are very high levels of traffic congestion for a small city. There are an estimated 40,000+ premature deaths across …
Nov 16
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 …
Nov 11
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 …
Sep 15
Day one of the ICCHNR Symposium has been a great success. Changing populations, changing needs; Directions and models for community orientated primary care has attracted more than 120 delegates and speakers from countries including Japan, Korea, Spain and Canada. They gathered at the University of Kent’s Grimond Lecture Theatre today to hear contributions from speakers across a …
Aug 19
The public health function in England post 2013 – shaken AND stirred? The major health and social care reforms encompassed within the Health and Social Care Act (2012) profoundly changed the way the public health function is organised and delivered in England. Our research project – PHOENIX – examined those changes over a three-year period, …
Jul 11
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 …
Jul 01
Collaboration for Community Health Nursing Research (ICCHNR) Symposium:“Changing populations, changing needs: Directions & models for community orientated primary care” Thursday 15th & Friday 16th September 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK We are now accepting LATE BREAKING ABSTRACTS to be submitted up until 31 July 2016. Abstract submissions Registration open until 31st August 2016. The symposium’s overall aim is to …
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