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Social care insights show a system under pressure

A year long research study looking at the recruitment and retention of social workers has given an insight into the challenges facing...

What's the impact of having multiple long-term conditions on everyday life?

Themes of work. Footnote: The outer oval includes examples of concepts in each theme (not an exhaustive list) New research has been...

New Tricks? The ARC Wessex approach turns things around

Thinking outside the box then it comes to learning A growing scheme across our NIHR infrastructure has flipped the traditional notion of...

Having ImPACt - Sam's work with older people

Dr Sam Meredith is an ARC Wessex Research Fellow with the geriatric medicine team at the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine...

ARC Wessex Update Autumn 2024

Welcome to the Autumn edition of our newsletter. It's an exciting time as we start the extension research projects, offer yet more...

Long Covid could cost the economy billions every year

Working days lost to long Covid could be costing the economy billions of pounds every year, as patients struggle to cope with symptoms...

ARCs DEM-COMM researchers in Geneva

The National ARCs Dementia research team DEM-COMM was out in force at the 34th Alzheimer’s Europe conference in Geneva. Professor Ruth...

Half a million pounds to drive knowledge mobilisation

ARC Wessex has been awarded £560,000 over 3 years to develop Knowledge Mobilisation capacity across Wessex. Knowledge mobilisation (KM)...

It's awards season

We are starting our biggest round of awards in our five year history, From November 18 - applications for up to 20 internship awards and...

Nisreen and Dianna take the lead

ARC Wessex is entering a new phase until Spring 2026, as funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research has been...

New research helps spot the hidden signs of abuse in the most vulnerable

EVENT WEDNESDAY 9 OCTOBER 2024 “I think abuse like this is rife. It’s like this taboo – it’s whispered about but never spoken out loud,...

ARC Wessex at Five - How we're making a difference

It is five years since ARC Wessex started its research programme and to mark the occasion we have produced a booklet outlining just some...

ARC Update newsletter

Summer 2024 Welcome back Great to be back after the summer break for some. We have lots of exciting news to share, and plenty of...

Temporary nurses don’t mitigate deaths linked to staff shortages

A new study led by the University of Southampton has found that using temporary nursing staff to fill rotas only partially combats an...

FoMo, Periods, Vaping and Vaccines – What do young people want Health researchers to look into?

When it comes to research, particularly health research, people often imagine people in white coats in laboratories and test tubes. While...

Research team awarded £2.4 million to help people with multiple long-term conditions stay well

About 7 million people in the UK live with more than one health condition. It can often be difficult for those people to get the right...

What do we know about frailty?

Dr Carole Fogg a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been working with colleagues to...

Our summer event - June 2024

In June we held our yearly ARC Wessex event, bringing together researchers from across the region and the people who support our health...