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- Professor Catherine Needham discusses adult social care services in this Social Sciences Birmingham blog.
- Date:
- Thursday 8th November 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
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- Outcomes for, and treatment of patients with pancreatic cancer, desperately require improvement. Marking Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, Hilary Brown (HSMC), Alistair Hewison (MDS) and Keith Roberts (UHB NHS Foundation Trust) consider elements of a multidisciplinary programme of research.
- Date:
- Wednesday 7th November 2018
- Categories:
- Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences
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- HSMC Director Professor Judith Smith in the Viewpoint: "However much the NHS needs this additional funding to ease profound current pressures, it now has to grasp the nettle of how it will change and modernise services to assure politicians and the public of its response to the challenge posed."
- Date:
- Monday 29th October 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
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- An HSMC-led research team has been successful in securing funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a follow-on project to the study on phronesis (practical wisdom) and the medical community.
- Date:
- Friday 14th September 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- In our latest Viewpoint, HSMC Senior Fellow Mervyn Conroy summarises the findings from the phronesis research project in relation to clinical leadership.
- Date:
- Friday 14th September 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
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- A change in culture within the NHS is needed to ensure that managers are less resistant to hearing, and acting upon, bad news, research led by the University of Birmingham has found.
- Date:
- Thursday 6th September 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Professor Russell Mannion summarises key findings on research which aims to sharpen up thinking around speaking up and whistleblowing in health care
- Date:
- Monday 3rd September 2018
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Policy and Management Karen Newbigging in The Conversation: "Everybody benefits from more resilient children."
- Date:
- Wednesday 29th August 2018