Monthly Archives: September 2014

Final Week.

During this final week I was given the job of recruiting new participants. I really enjoyed this aspect of my clinical research experience- I spent most the early part of the week making a recruitment poster to inform potential new … Continue reading

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Newsletter

Emergency surgery deaths alarm  About 15,000 people a year die during emergency surgery according to Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) president Clare Marx. An excellent new briefing from the RCS sets out the main challenges facing emergency surgery and suggests some remedial … Continue reading

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Week 5- More scanning.

Today marks the end of a busy week scanning new participants for the study. This week I played a much more active role in the scanning and communication with the participants. I got to help operate the ultrasound machine by … Continue reading

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Week 7: Technicians, Labs and more statistics

I’ve been continuing work on the manuscript and the descriptive statistics while we await the full analysis from the statistician. Tuesday I spent the day with the technicians at K&C Hospital. As someone who is isn’t very good with technology … Continue reading

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KSS AHSN Newsletter – 19 September 2014

Better together Last weekend the Independent on Sunday reported that the number of councils no longer helping adults assessed to have moderate or low needs has risen by 17% in five years. That’s according to a survey of social services … Continue reading

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Week 4- Data Entry.

This week has been quite a pivotal week – plans have put into motion to begin the next stage of research, its also been very rewarding as I finished a job I had been doing throughout the last couple of … Continue reading

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Weeks 5&6:

12/09/14 Monday morning I joined Dr Doulton on his ward round, lasting around 3 hours. I feel like it put the whole picture together for me. From my day in the lab, to the clinic session that I sat in … Continue reading

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KSS AHSN Newsletter – 10 September 2014

In this week’s edition: KSS Patient Safety Collaborative Bulletin The Sir Jules Thorn Award for Biomedical Research NHS and PHE South Region’s sustainability conference: Putting Sustainability into Practice NHS patients could benefit from new models of care used around the … Continue reading

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Week 7: Continuing On

This week we have continued to collect patient files and enter their data into the spreadsheet (about 70% have been filled in now). We have also started going into the other two health record sites at the hospital that we … Continue reading

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Week 8 and it’s all over (for a bit!)

So it’s the end of my placement here at the William Harvey and these past eight weeks have flown by. It’s been such a great opportunity and I’ve learnt so much. Over the past week we’ve really been picking up … Continue reading

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