31 March 2017
Dr Ryan Buchanan has been working with hard to reach communities on the Isle of Wight to uncover the hidden population of people with the devastating illness Hepatitis C.
He has found that by training pharmacy staff to take tests at local chemists he was able to engage with drug users who would be reluctant to come into contact with more formal NHS services.
Here he explains the success of his research which is coming to and end in the next few months
Dr Ryan Buchanan - Hepatitis C treatment with hard to access groups from NIHR CLAHRC Wessex on Vimeo.
Why might nurses miss people’s ‘danger signs’ at night? – Dr Jo Hope
Staff told us it was hard to keep patients safe while making sure they got a decent amount of uninterrupted sleep. They agreed that the most unwell patients should be checked most often. However instead of taking observations according to the early warning protocol, they used their clinical judgement, juggled timings around other ward expectations or skipped observations to avoid waking other patients read blog >
'Celebrating Ageing Research': one day conference
Wed 25th April 10.00 until 16.00
Novotel, Southampton SO15 1RA
