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  12 Mar 2020

  Rare Disease Day 2020

  Rare Diseases Day 2020 was marked with an awareness stand in the QEHB atrium, highlighting the rare diseases work being done across University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). UHB has a specialist Centre for Rare Diseases, based…

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  10 Mar 2020

  A Day in the Life of… Prof Liam Grover

  An initiative at the NIHR SRMRC, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, is to give people an insight in to what different members of the team do on a day-to-day basis. It is our…

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  06 Mar 2020

  Hearing loss study has potential to transform diagnosis and treatment

  A study currently being trialled for Armed Forces patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) could lead to vast improvements in the care pathway for detecting and treating hearing problems. The Remote Audiometric Performance…

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  03 Mar 2020

  Impact of knife crime on NHS trauma attendances assessed

  Doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) have reported on the impact of knife-related injuries on secondary healthcare resources in EClinicalMedicine, published by the Lancet. The paper’s authors, who work across the NIHR Surgical…

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  02 Mar 2020

  Trauma is not nine to five – and neither are our research nurses

  Marking the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, 2020 has been named the ‘Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ by the World Health Organization (WHO). While many of us will think of a hospital ward-based…

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  02 Mar 2020

  A Day in the Life of… Colin Bergin

  A new initiative at the NIHR SRMRC, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, is to give people an insight in to what different members of our team do on a day-to-day basis. It is…

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  25 Feb 2020

  A Day in The Life of… Dr Kamal Yakoub

  An initiative here at the NIHR SRMRC is to give people an insight in to what different members of our team do on a day-to-day basis. It is our hope that with this people can…

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  25 Feb 2020

  The Trauma Landscape – #WhyWeDoResearch

  The face of trauma and emergency medicine is undeniably changing. Between 2008 and 2017, there were almost 250,000 major trauma cases in the NHS – and the complexity of cases has increased for a number…

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  20 Feb 2020

  Birmingham named one of just six new Life Sciences Opportunity Zones

  The Birmingham Health Partners ecosystem – which will soon begin construction of Birmingham Life Sciences Park – has been awarded Life Sciences Opportunity Zone status by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).…

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  12 Feb 2020

  Pioneering Research wins prestigious award

  The Scar Free Foundation has been awarded The Sun’s Military Award, “The Millie”, in Innovation. The award recognises the unique partnership between the Foundation and the CASEVAC Club for the pioneering research underway at The…