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Medway School of Pharmacy shortlisted for national training award
Medway School of Pharmacy has been shortlisted for a prestigious Training Provider of the Year award by a national science skills council. The shortlisting – by Cogent, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for the Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Nuclear, Life Sciences, Petroleum … Continue reading
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SHREWD: the Single Health Resilience Early Warning Database
In November 2012, the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent was commissioned by NHS Kent and Medway to conduct a rapid (23 day) appraisal of the SHREWD system and the way it was currently operating across … Continue reading
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Tizard Centre Taster Sessions 2013
Come and experience what it is like to study at the Tizard Centre and hopefully learning something new at the same time. These sessions provide free training but also give you the chance to find out more about studying at … Continue reading
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Important discovery about one of the pigments of life
Researchers at the University of Kent have discovered a new way in which nature makes heme – the component that gives blood its colour and allows red blood cells to carry oxygen around the body. Until now it was not … Continue reading
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Kent student wins major award for paper on benefits of evolutionary medicine
A University of Kent student from the School of Anthropology and Conservation has won the international Pollitzer Travel award for the second consecutive year for her paper on evolutionary medicine. Justyna Miszkiewicz, a third year PhD research student, won the … Continue reading
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Long Term Care in Europe – Improvements in Policy and Practice
New book co-edited by Jenny Billings of the Centre for Health Services Studies This book challenges the prevailing discourse centred on the problems of demographic change and long-term care provision for older people by focusing on solutions emerging from progression … Continue reading
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Making social care funding work for disabled adults in England
Five charities have got together to write a report on the care crisis facing disabled adults in England. This report was put together with the input of PSSRU staff comprising of Jose-Luis Fernandez, Tom Snell, Julien Forder and Raphael Wittenberg, … Continue reading
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Personal Health Budgets Pilot Programme conferences announced
PSSRU are organising two conferences, one in London and one in York, titled “Personalisation in the health care system: Evaluation of the Personal Health Budgets Pilot Programme”. For more information and to register, please see the link. Link: https://www.phbe.org.uk/2013-conference-information.php
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Structural insights into targets for tumour imaging and therapy
Dr. Mark Howard, Reader in Biological NMR Spectroscopy, comments on a recently published article that features work from his research group and other collaborators at Kent and elsewhere. “Our research involves nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a scientific method that can … Continue reading
Research study investigates human cardiac myosin function
Mike Geeves, Professor of Physical Biochemistry in the School of Biosciences, comments on a research article published recently featuring work from his laboratory. “Myosin is the motor protein that drives cardiac muscle contraction and blood circulation. Mutations in myosin cause … Continue reading