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Improving The Basics: Why Do We Do Clinical Trial Monitoring?

Improving The Basics: Why Do We Do Clinical Trial Monitoring?

Posted on 1 November 2022 by Kerry Hood

Whilst working from home over the last two years I have had the pleasure of being part of a topic group within the Trial Conduct Working Group of the Trial […]

GRIN Meeting 2022

GRIN Meeting 2022

Posted on 6 October 2022 by Kerry Hood

-by Kerry Hood, Becky Cannings-John & Dave Gillespie We dusted off our passport to go to what was for many of us our first face to face international conference in […]

Celebrating Transgender Week Awareness: Some Thoughts

Celebrating Transgender Week Awareness: Some Thoughts

Posted on 14 November 2021 by Kerry Hood

What’s in a pronoun: a collection of personal perspectives  For this Transgender Week of Awareness, a few of us reflected on why we use our pronouns how we do.  Christy Barlow (she/her)   […]

World Sepsis Day 2020: BATCH, PRONTO And Antimicrobial Resistance

World Sepsis Day 2020: BATCH, PRONTO And Antimicrobial Resistance

Posted on 11 September 2020 by Kerry Hood

Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)? Today on World Sepsis Day (13th September 2020), as both members of the public and health professionals alike, we can all learn more about how […]

Our PrEP Research And What It Means To Wales (And Beyond)

Our PrEP Research And What It Means To Wales (And Beyond)

Posted on 4 July 2020 by Kerry Hood

Background A few days ago, the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health, Vaughan Gething, announced that the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (known as PrEP) to prevent HIV would become routine in […]

Our Research Collaboration and the European Union

Our Research Collaboration and the European Union

Posted on 31 January 2020 by Kerry Hood

At 11pm this evening Britain officially leaves the European Union (EU) and we move into a transitional phase before fully leaving at the end of 2020.  This means we will […]

World Sepsis Day 2019

World Sepsis Day 2019

Posted on 13 September 2019 by Kerry Hood

How can we reduce deaths from sepsis without contributing to the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)? Today on World Sepsis Day (13th September 2019), as both members of the public […]

NHS At 70: The Challenge of Reducing Health Inequalities Through Evidence Based Medicine

NHS At 70: The Challenge of Reducing Health Inequalities Through Evidence Based Medicine

Posted on 5 July 2018 by Kerry Hood

A New Beginning In 1948, after a war which had rocked the world and challenged previous carefully drawn boundaries between genders, class and affluence, the belief that a better world […]

From Antwerp to Cardiff and back again

From Antwerp to Cardiff and back again

Posted on 30 April 2018 by Kerry Hood

For the last week in April, Dr Sibyl Anthierens from the Department of Primary and Interdisciplinary Care at University of Antwerp has visited the Centre for Trials Research and Division […]