Monthly Archives: December 2014

KSS AHSN Newsletter – 19 December 2014

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Richard Barber

In this weeks’s edition… Save the dates – Patient Safety Collaborative events in January Read all about it! New Patient Safety Collaborative Bulletin hits the shelves Ready Now Programme CSH Surrey Clinical NED Vacancy QSIR train the trainer programme: for … Continue reading →

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Research finds tooth enamel fast-track in humans

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Research has discovered a link between prenatal enamel growth rates in teeth and weaning in human babies. The research found that incisor teeth grow quickly in the early stages of the second trimester of a baby’s development, while molars grow … Continue reading →

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Student-led fundraiser for local charity

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Student volunteers from Kent Television, InQuire Media and CSR FM organise a fundraiser for local children and young adults with special needs. Every year, student volunteers from Kent Television, InQuire Media and CSR FM organise a fundraiser for a local … Continue reading →

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Staff runner gets set for the 2015 Virgin London Marathon

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Faculty Learning Technologist Daniel Clark is in training for the 2015 Virgin London Marathon, on behalf of the Christie Hospital, Manchester. Daniel is raising money for the hospital, one of Europe’s leading cancer treatment and research centres, where his dad … Continue reading →

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Honouree Lecturer Mary Kirk has recently published a paper in the British Journal of Community Nursing

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

CPP Honouree Lecturer Mary Kirk has recently co-authored and published a paper in the British Journal of Community Nursing called ‘Advance care planning for people living with dementia’. This paper reviews the literature in regards to the barriers of the … Continue reading →

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Music helps neuro-rehabilitation patients

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

A new study suggesting live music can help hospital neuro-rehabilitation patients has won an outstanding innovation award. University psychologist Dr David Wilkinson is working with hospital clinicians and ward staff on a project to find a new way of helping … Continue reading →

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Lecturer at Medway showcases life as a community pharmacist

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

A 1-page interview with Medway’s Teaching Practitioner Elizabeth Scahill is featured in the current issue of the Pharmaceutical Journal. Liz explains how she spends 2 days each week at the School, drawing on her current working experiences at Boots to … Continue reading →

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Medway promotes patient-centred consultation

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Medway School of Pharmacy values the links that it has with local pharmacists. In November, almost 80 local pharmacists and students attended an interactive meeting organised by the West Kent and Medway Pharmacy Forum in partnership with the Centre for … Continue reading →

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Research Seminar: Understanding cell shape: reconstituting the actin-membrane interace.

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Dr. Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge Wednesday 17th December, 4.00 p.m., Stacey Lecture Theatre 1 Membranes are central organizing surfaces for signaling and actin polymerization in the control of cell shape and movement. My … Continue reading →

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Final year undergraduate students engineer bacteria to digest lactose

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Anna McGregor

Petri plates containing solid nutrients (agar) are used extensively in microbiological studies and sometimes microbial growth can take on quite spectacular forms. The image here shows colonies of a bacteria calledEscherichia coli (E. coli) growing on a ‘MacConkey’ agar plate. … Continue reading →

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