Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy awarded DBE in King's New Year Honours31 December 2022Nicola Dandridge, Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy at the University of Bristol, has been awarded a Damehood for services to higher education in the King’s New Year Honours in recognition of achievements in her previous role as Chief Executive of the Office for Students (OfS).
Mesenchymal cell plasters to stop children needing repeated heart surgeries20 December 2022Researchers at the University of Bristol, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), have developed 'mesenchymal cell plasters' to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don't need as many open-heart operations.
New app to help improve maternity care secures £1.8 million funding for NHS trial 15 December 2022A new tool which is able to identify early in pregnancy a woman’s chance of preterm birth or of developing problems with the placenta that may lead to stillbirth will be tested across 26 NHS Trusts for 36 months. The University of Bristol-led trial, will test the Tommy's App, a Clinical Decision Support Tool and will involve around 39,000 women each year.
Services must adopt anti-racist and holistic models of care to reduce ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare13 December 2022The experiences of people from ethnic minority groups with NHS mental healthcare are being seriously undermined by failures to consider the everyday realities of people's lives in services in the UK, reports a new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and Keele University. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded study is published in PLOS Medicine today [13 December].
New report finds significantly larger proportion of unexplained infant deaths live in the most deprived neighbourhoods12 December 2022With the current cost of living crisis, new evidence has found a significantly larger proportion of unexplained infant deaths were among children living in the most deprived neighbourhoods. The new report from England’s National Child Mortality Database (NCMD), led by the University of Bristol, shows 42% of unexplained infant deaths occurred in the most deprived neighbourhoods compared to 8% in the least deprived neighbourhoods.
New life-saving defibrillators installed at the University of Bristol 12 December 2022The University of Bristol has installed six new externally mounted defibrillators across its campus which can be used in an emergency to save someone’s life if they experience sudden cardiac arrest.
Professor John Colley MD FRCP, 1930-20228 December 2022Professor John Richard Thomas Colley died on 17 October aged 92. He was Professor of Public Health Medicine from 1976 until retirement in 1993, when he was appointed Emeritus Professor. His former colleague, Professor Michael Wadsworth (now Emeritus at University College London), offers an appreciation.