Pancreatic Cancer UK has received accreditation from the Information Standard for the fourth year in a row for its range of publications about pancreatic cancer. The resources aim to assist healthcare professionals in giving advice on the disease, and help them provide the best support to patients and their carers. The charity began publishing information […]
The Kingston and St George’s Nursing oral history project ‘Nurse’s voices’ captures the experiences of nurses working at St George’s hospital in the 1940’s and 50’s. In this video you can hear their memories of working on the wards at Christmas time. […]
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RITA is a digital robot – an avatar that appears on a phone or tablet screen and can interact with older people to cater for their needs. RITA, which stands for Responsive Interactive Advocate, harnesses emerging technologies from the entertainment industry, including voice recognition and facial recognition software, to innovate future models of personalised care. […]
That cricketing and clinical concepts collide has become apparent to me as a nurse spectator enjoying numerous cricket matches. I’ve noticed many cricketing terms and ideas that wouldn’t be out of place in a ward environment when discussing diagnosis, disease and death. As I look at Father Time removing the bails from the wicket above […]
Most people would agree that research is necessary to improve clinical care: research tells us which treatments and services work, and which don’t, so that we can provide patients with the most appropriate, and most effective care. But an important question is: how much of the research that is done in biomedicine actually leads to […]
The use of NAO Robots with patients was trialed at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. The idea was to assess whether these robots could help combat the social isolation experienced by many inpatients in hospital wards. The results were varied and very moving… This project was conceived and originated by Dr. Marcela P. Vizcaychipi and […]
Latest figures for 2015/6 showed that on average 49,000 people attended major A&E departments in England every day – in winter this figure rockets. Within this pressured environment, demands placed on healthcare professionals are huge. Recent figures show that in the 12-months leading up to September 2016, more than 190,000 medication errors involving the management […]
Paediatrics is heading into its busiest time of the year where GPs, Emergency Departments and Children’s Units will be seeing hundreds of children a day with respiratory symptoms including coughing, colds, and temperatures. Firstly coughs and colds in children are extremely common, and nine times out of 10 are caused by a self-limiting viral infection […]
Thousands of people with Atrial Fibrillation are not being diagnosed because doctors are pushed for time and are not carrying out simple pulse checks, says Professor Camm, professor of clinical cardiology based at St George’s, University of London, and an international renowned expert in atrial fibrillation. He is also President of Arrhythmia Alliance and a […]
For #selfcareweek watch this short animation on The Circle of Care : A framework to help healthcare professionals think about, practise and demonstrate high quality compassionate healthcare. Circle of Care from Clod Ensemble on Vimeo. […]