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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 […]

Pharmacy Research Wales And RDCS Launch First All Wales Pharmacy Research Ideas Study Day

Pharmacy Research Wales And RDCS Launch First All Wales Pharmacy Research Ideas Study Day

Posted on 22 June 2018 by Sue Channon

Pharmacy Research Wales And All Wales Research Design And Conduct Service (RDCS) Event On the 14th June 2018 Pharmacy Research Wales joined forces with the Research Design and Conduct Service […]

Identifying And Addressing Shared Challenges In Conducting Health And Social Care Research For Older People (OPAL)

Identifying And Addressing Shared Challenges In Conducting Health And Social Care Research For Older People (OPAL)

Posted on 18 June 2018 by Victoria Shepherd

Background To The OPAL Programme The world’s population is ageing: virtually every country in the world is experiencing growth in the number and proportion of older people in their population. […]

#WhyWeDoResearch Tweetchat On Research Involving Adults Who Lack Capacity To Consent

#WhyWeDoResearch Tweetchat On Research Involving Adults Who Lack Capacity To Consent

Posted on 24 May 2018 by Victoria Shepherd

Background to the #WhyWeDoResearch campaign The hugely successful #WhyWeDoResearch social media campaign was established in 2014 to raise research awareness and opportunities to staff, patients and the public, and to […]

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 […]

RDCS Writing Retreat Achieves 95% Customer Satisfaction From NHS And Social Care Delegates Seeking To Submit Research Funding Applications

RDCS Writing Retreat Achieves 95% Customer Satisfaction From NHS And Social Care Delegates Seeking To Submit Research Funding Applications

Posted on 6 December 2017 by Philip Pallmann

3-Day Residential Retreat Early in November the Research Design and Conduct Service (RDCS) South East Wales hosted a three-day residential writing retreat at the Old Rectory hotel in Llangattock near […]

Right Evidence, Better Decisions: National Institute of Health Research Dissemination Centre

Right Evidence, Better Decisions: National Institute of Health Research Dissemination Centre

Posted on 19 July 2017 by Victoria Shepherd

Background Earlier this month I was invited to attend an event at the Wellcome Collection in London being held to launch the latest themed review by the National Institute of […]

Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) Annual Conference 2017

Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) Annual Conference 2017

Posted on 12 June 2017 by Fiona Lugg-Widger

Background I attended the Administrative Data Research Network (ADRN) annual conference in Edinburgh, 1-2 June 2017. There were around 300 delegates with almost 100 talks. Attendees were from across the UK, […]

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore … Or Even Wales

We’re Not In Kansas Anymore … Or Even Wales

Posted on 24 May 2017 by Michael Robling

Background In the last fortnight I was fortunate to have attended the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Francisco at the vast Moscone Convention Center. Around 6000, mostly […]

Centre for Trials Research Qualitative Group Away Day 2017

Centre for Trials Research Qualitative Group Away Day 2017

Posted on 10 April 2017 by Kim Madden

Background The Centre for Trials Research qualitative group held an away day on March 23rd 2017 in the scenic setting of Aberdare Hall at Cardiff University. The group is a significant size […]