From Christi: Many nurses, midwives and therapists at CUHFT are doing Masters degrees, both clinical and research degrees. Since 2010, approximately 15 members of staff have completed a Masters in Clinical Research (many funded by NIHR) or an MPhil. Their thesis research questions usually arise from clinical practice, and can be an important first step […]

The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies introduces the latest issue of Faculty World (June 2015 issue 6) from the NIHR. This edition focuses on Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals in the NIHR and a range of clinical researchers tell their story to highlights career pathways and opportunities supported by the NIHR. There’s […]

From Ian Wellwood I recently travelled to Glasgow, Scotland along with fellow physiotherapist, Peter Hartley (Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust (CUHFT)) to present a piece of research at the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) conference. The conference, the first run by ESO, included patients, clinicians, scientists, researchers and other health care professionals who had gathered in […]

On the 6th May I went to the Florence Nightingale Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey. I was accompanied by 2 nursing colleagues of mine from the US and of course many colleagues from Cambridge and across the UK. It was a lovely and moving ceremony filled with tribute and tradition, and the symbolic passing of […]

We are proud to announce that we have funded our first internal CUHFT research fellowships for nurses, midwives and AHPs (NMAHPs). These fellowships are to support staff to develop competitive applications for doctoral research fellowships to the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Pathway or to an equivalent charity or research […]

Welcome to the Clinical Nursing Research Group (CNRG) Blog. The CNRG is a newly formed research group in the Cambridge Primary Care Unit (PCU) in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care in the Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, and the Cambridge Institute of Public Health. More information can be found here: http://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/research/research-groups/cnrg/ The […]