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Acting Head of School of Healthcare Sciences

26 January 2018

Professor David Whitaker appointed Acting Head of School of Healthcare Sciences

A decade of collaboration: Cardiff and Oman

23 January 2018

Professor Dianne Watkins, Deputy Head for International and Engagement and Susan Ward, Senior Lecturer and Director of the International Collaborative Provision, School of Healthcare Sciences attended Muscat, Oman on Tuesday 16 January 2018 to celebrate the School of Healthcare Sciences’ long-term partnership with Oman.

Improving midwifery skills from Wales to Namibia

15 January 2018

Earlier this year a group of senior midwifery professionals from Cardiff University visited Namibia as part of a programme to improve skills among midwives in the rural north of the country.

Senior Lecturer is awarded the RCN Wales Research in Nursing Award 2017

21 November 2017

A Senior Lecturer & Professional Head for Mental Health at Cardiff University, School of Healthcare Sciences has been recognised at the 6thAnnual Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales Nurse of the Year Awards 2017.

Investing in your future; nursing simulation development

10 November 2017

The School of Healthcare Sciences is currently involved in a 3 year European erasmus and strategic partnership for higher education to develop simulation education as a resource for adult nursing.

Philippa Stiff & Meg Pearson with winning image & award

Clinical Photography success

8 November 2017

Congratulations to Cardiff Clinical Photography students

T-cell

Why are cancer patients with pre-existing disabilities reporting poorer care?

26 October 2017

Researchers at Cardiff University recruiting study participants

Elite Runners

Experts investigate knee and back conditions

27 September 2017

Researchers demonstrate their work at Cardiff Half Marathon

Recognising and celebrating excellence in practice

21 September 2017

For the second year running Cardiff University, School of Healthcare Sciences held an event to recognise its partnerships with practice. It was a chance to celebrate the excellent opportunities offered to their students throughout the many health and social care environments across Wales.

100% satisfaction for Healthcare's PhD programme

16 August 2017

Healthcare Sciences' PhD programme has achieved 100% satisfaction in the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey 2017, the results of which were released this week.

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NSS Results 2017

8 August 2017

The 2017 National Student Survey results show that our midwifery and physiotherapy students are among the most satisfied in the UK with overall satisfaction rates of 96%, higher than the national average of 84%.

Clinical Lecturer becomes The Society of Radiographer’s 80th President

8 August 2017

Gareth Thomas, Clinical Lecturer in Diagnostic Radiography has become the 80th President of the only body in the UK representing the whole of the radiographic workforce.

NeedleBay

Partnership pioneers safer insulin injections

10 July 2017

NeedleBay could save NHS millions of pounds.

Portrait of Jonny Benjamin

Psychosis: A journey of hope and discovery

6 June 2017

Jonny Benjamin and Neil Laybourn to give public talk at University

Healthcare students on balcony

League table success for health professions

1 June 2017

This year’s Guardian University league tables have been released and Cardiff University, School of Healthcare Sciences has cemented its burgeoning reputation as one of the very best in the UK.

Colourful MRI scan of a brain

Tinted Lens

15 May 2017

Marking Dementia Awareness Week with dementia friendly film screenings and activities

Stephen Griffiths, WEDS visiting Simulation Suite

Investing in the future of our healthcare work force

7 April 2017

School of Healthcare Sciences opens new simulation suites

Vaughan Gething at Midwifery collaborating centre launch

Putting Wales at the forefront of midwifery advancement

5 April 2017

Cardiff University launches WHO Collaborating Centre for Midwifery Development

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Science in Health Live

17 March 2017

Inspiring next generation of researchers and doctors

World Half Marathon

Barriers to exercise revealed

7 March 2017

Research carried out with novice runners in World Half Marathon