Health experts find Physician Associates provide efficient care for patients and can take the pressure off GPs 13th June 2014 A study into the impact on the NHS of a new type of health worker who help doctors has shown they can help relieve pressure on general practitioners (GPs).
Professor Ray Jones and senior social work academics battle against the privatisation of child protection 12th June 2014 Professor Ray Jones from the School of Social Work and Social Care was the leading author of a letter to The Guardian signed by 37 senior social work academics and which expressed concern about the Government’s plans to open up all children’s socials services, except adoption, to be provided by ‘third parties’.
School of Social Work and Social Care Practice Learning Suite 12th June 2014 Kingston and St Georges’ School of Social Work and Social Care now has an in-built Work Practice Learning Suite. The Suite provides social work students with facilities to extensively practice their communications and relationship building skills, as well as their assessment, intervention and reflection skills.
Nursing students undertake international and national Elective Placement Learning Opportunity 11th June 2014 EPLO offered students the opportunity to investigate and experience vibrant physical, social, cultural, psychological, religious, genetic and environmental factors that impact healthcare provision within a different healthcare setting. Students completed their electives in different healthcare settings, for instance, Hospitals, Community teams, nursing homes, orphanages and ambulance services.
Michelle Grainger sets up a Non-Governmental Organisation 10th June 2014 Kingston and St George’s School of Nursing Senior Lecturer, Michelle Grainger has started her own registered Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Uganda, called Nurses Reaching Out (NRO). This was created in response to Michelle’s awareness of the needs of nurses who were treating North Uganda’s war torn patients. NRO aim is to support healthcare through empowering and enabling nurses.
Students and staff play host to students from Rotterdam University to celebrate ‘World Social Work Day’ 6th June 2014 Undergraduate students on the BA (Hons) Working with Children and Young People (WWCYP) course welcomed 30 students from Rotterdam University to celebrate World Social Work Day.
Staff and student successes recognised at Celebrate Enterprise 2nd June 2014 In the same month that Kingston University was shown to be producing more graduate start-up companies than any other UK higher education institution, the University held its Celebrate Enterprise Awards to recognise those staff, students and recent graduates who have had their own business successes.
