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The NHS Five Year Forward View was published on 23 October 2014 and sets out a vision for the future of the NHS. It has been developed by the partner organisations that deliver and oversee health and care services including … Continue reading →

The online simulations, known as Looking out for Lottie and Visiting Elliot, will help child protection professionals identify risk factors in the sexual abuse of vulnerable children and young people. Looking out for Lottie uses social media to follow the … Continue reading →

University psychologist Dr David Wilkinson is working with hospital clinicians and ward staff on a project to find a new way of helping patients recover from brain damage by using live music performance. The collaboration, between academics, clinicians and musicians, … Continue reading →

New Scientist has highlighted research which Dr David Wilkinson has contributed to. The findings, from the research project entitled Imagining Autism, show that autistic children who participate in drama and performance-based activities may demonstrate improved levels of communication and interpersonal … Continue reading →

Dr Tarlochan Singh Gill, Clinical Lecturer at the Medway School of Pharmacy, has been awarded half-share of the 2014 Sciences Faculty Teaching Prize for his work in using Simman technology to teach Pharmacokinetics. The principles of Clinical Pharmacokinetics are the … Continue reading →

A recent research article from the Urinary System Physiology Unit entitled Sympathetic nerve-derived ATP regulates renal medullary blood flow via vasa recta pericytes (published in October 2013) has been highlighted by the Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers (High Quality Open … Continue reading →

This one-year intercalated BSc in Management in Primary Care is designed for medical students who want to prepare themselves for working in primary care and community, public health or management. The course modules are designed to help students develop critical … Continue reading →

The Isabel Schwartz Scholarship:  The Tizard Centre are delighted to announce that they will once again be offering this scholarship to a student accepted on one of our Master’s programmes in intellectual disabilities, autism or applied behaviour analysis.  The scholarship … Continue reading →