Blog by Lynsey Spillman I’m a clinical Dietitian working with liver transplant patients. When people have recovered from liver transplant, they often find they gain unwanted weight, and get high blood pressure, diabetes and raised cholesterol. This means they become more at risk of getting cardiovascular disease. My patients have told me they would like […]
NIHR award for research to improve management of congestive heart failure
Christi Deaton, Florence Nightingale Foundation Professor of Clinical Nursing Research, will lead a new programme of research to improve the care of patients with a common form of heart failure called Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF). The National Institute of Health Research School of Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR) has awarded a grant […]
New research to help prevent older patients losing strength and function while in hospital
Research to find ways to improve frail older patients’ strength after a period in hospital will be carried out at the University of Cambridge by Addenbrooke’s Hospital physiotherapist, Peter Hartley, pictured above. After a period of hospitalisation, older people face substantial risks of leaving with new disabilities and dependencies that developed during their stay in […]
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Research Conference
The annual Nursing, Midwifery and AHP Research Conference was held 18 May on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. This year’s theme: ‘Research and Practice: Making the Connection’ was well illustrated in the presentations and posters on the day. Professor Maggie Shepherd from Exeter began the day with an inspirational keynote talk that educated the audience about […]
NIHR research award for Gillian Gatiss, liver transplant dietitian at Addenbrooke’s, to improve nutritional treatment of patients with advanced liver disease
Gillian Gatiss, a dietitian in the Addenbrooke’s team that works with patients awaiting liver transplantation, has been awarded the HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship through the ICA HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme for non-medical healthcare professions. She is set to advance knowledge through her PhD at the University of Cambridge about how the nutritional status […]
FAST Healthcare NetworksPlus
Collaboration is essential for nursing, midwifery and AHP research, but we often think of it as collaborating with other health care professionals, or our colleagues in the same profession but different clinical areas. We may draw on the expertise of social scientists, psychologists and health economists but less rarely do we seek collaboration with engineers […]
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