Northern Training Consortium Open Day – A Virtual Success
The Northern Training Consortium (NTC) ran their first ever virtual Open Day on Friday 15th January via Zoom to explain what it is like to be an STP Trainee within NTC.
National results of tonsillectomy safety published – Paediatric tonsillectomy in England: A cohort study of clinical practice and outcomes using Hospital Episode Statistics data (2008-2019)
The recently published analysis (doi:10.1111/coa.13707) of Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is the largest study of paediatric tonsillectomy in England: including 318,453 procedures conducted over 11 years, with a median per-patient follow-up of 6 years. It reports that 98.7% of children experienced no in‐hospital complications but that rates of readmission for bleeding within 28 days are increasing; with significant differences in safety outcomes (bleeding, pain and return to theatre) identified between coblation and dissection tonsillectomy across the study period.
International Success for IPRS PhD Student
Matt Birkbeck’s presentation on “Non invasive imaging of single human motor units” at the recent conference of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) received two separate awards:… Read more »
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) – Radiology Department
Hello, my name is Sarah and I’m a Medical Physics trainee specialising in Radiotherapy. As part of my STP training, I had the opportunity to undertake a five-week elective training… Read more »
Lions, and tigers and wheelchairs (oh my) – an Engineer in Tanzania
In January 2020, I spent 5 weeks in Tanzania at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre along with Sarah, an STP Medical Physicist. Walking to work each day seeing Kilimanjaro peeking… Read more »
An Elective at the University of Berkeley California: Investigating vision restoration methods in retinal degeneration
In January 2020 I was able to undertake a 6-week visiting scientist placement at the University of Berkeley California (UCB) in Professor Richard Kramer’s lab. The research in the Kramer… Read more »
Extended Breath Protecting Shield for slit lamp.
As Part of the trust’s RESET / RESTART strategy, it was important that services could resume as soon as possible following the lock down. NMPCE were approached by Ophthalmology Outpatients… Read more »
NMPCE Face Shields
The face shields developed and manufactured by NMPCE in response to COVID-19 have received an overwhelmingly positive response from staff within NUTH, including a thank you card from the Renal… Read more »
Lowering the Steaks
Mechanical Engineering services were approached by business development, in conjunction with dementia nurses, to create an alternative to the standard hospital over bed table. The current design of all over… Read more »
Evolution of laser safety
As part of its role in providing support for laser safety regionally, NMPCE has produced a short video for health care professionals with any involvement in high power lasers. It does not replace existing training but shows how laser safety could be enhanced and may be useful as CPD.