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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...
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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...
Helen's story: Caring for someone with a dual diagnosis of dementia and paranoid schizophrenia
Helen Sloan is a public contributor for the ARC Wessex Mental Health Research Hub and Social Care. She has written beautiful blogs about...
ARC Wessex update - Spring 2024
More money, Long Covid and digital help, safety in numbers for nursing, cutting down on meds
Alzheimer's Society give £370,000 to extend dementia research
The Alzheimer’s Society and NIHR have come together to host a three-day event for existing DEM-COMM fellows. During the event, teams...
Unique research collaboration highlights innovative approaches for post-pandemic healthcare
A new report outlines the findings of 14 projects which identified and tested promising innovations to support post-pandemic ways of...
ARC Wessex welcomes Implementation lead in joint role with Health Innovation Wessex
Philippa Darnton has been appointed to the role of Director of Insight for Health Innovation Wessex, following a period leading the...
Online tool for Long Covid support
A website to support people living with Long Covid was launched in March on Long Covid Awareness Day by a research team led by a...
Is it cost-effective to deploy more nurses on hospital wards?
A new publication by researchers at NIHR ARC Wessex based at the University of Southampton has examined evidence from over five thousand...
ARC Wessex given more than £3 million to extend work until 2026
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has extended the work of NIHR ARC Wessex for 18 months, allowing the ARC to...
Award for ADHD Professor Samuel Cortese
Professor Samuele Cortese, is based at the University of Southampton. His research topic with ARC Wessex is looking at personalising...
£6million added to dementia research
The ARCs have been successful in obtaining another £6million to help improve the lives of people living with dementia, their families and...
We have a new Deputy Director - Professor Cathy Bowen
Professor Catherine Bowen has been selected as the ARC Wessex Deputy Director to support our programme of research and capacity...
Scientists want to know how the cost-of-living crisis effects you
People have been feeling the pinch with higher interest rates, bills and food costs over the last year. In Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle...
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