NDS is pleased to announce the launch of a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) in Patient Safety. It brings together experts in human factors, quality improvement, leadership and education to deliver an exciting series of modules to support the current safety challenges in our healthcare settings.
Dr Clare Verrill and Dr Lisa Browning have been filmed demonstrating how to sample fresh tumours from prostate and renal cases for whole genome sequencing and the 100,000 Genomes Project.
This week, NDS is hosting the International Pancreas and Islet Transplantation Association (IPITA) 16th International Congress in Oxford. This is the first time that this biennial meeting has been held in the UK.
Two members of the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation (CET) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have been elected to the committees of the British Transplantation Society (BTS).
A new online training tool being developed by the Genomics Education Programme for scientists processing tumour samples for whole genome sequencing will feature Dr Clare Verrill, a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Pathology at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
Professor Paul Johnson visited Mexico City last month (25-27 October) to be part of the official launch of the TRANSDIA project \u2013 a UK-Mexico collaboration to tackle type 1 diabetes.
Dr Tinashe Chandauka, a University of Cape Town alumnus who will be pursuing a DPhil in Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, has been named in the 200 Young South Africans 2016 list by the online newspaper Mail & Guardian.
Dr Lauren Morgan, a lecturer in the Patient Safety Academy, talks to the Oxford Science Blog about what human factors research can teach medics about improving healthcare.
The Biobank team at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences have taken part in a series of short educational films about sample processing for whole genome sequencing for the 100,000 Genomes Project.
The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences is delighted to announce that the COPE Consortium has completed its trial recruitment in its European liver study.
A giant touchscreen computer for junior doctors and medical students to study tumours in fine detail is the latest weapon in the battle against cancer at Oxford\u2019s John Radcliffe Hospital.
For the Neuromodulation Team at Oxford University Hospitals, 2016 has had an electrifying start. The team have been performing dorsal root ganglion (DRG) stimulation since 2013 and were one of the first UK centres to perform the procedure.
Dr Lauren Morgan has been interviewed by the National Health Executive magazine about the small but growing impact of her profession, human factors, on the NHS.
An article on The ONE Study, an EU funded project in which the Transplantation Research Immunology Group are consortium members, has been featured on the European Commission's Horizon 2020 website.
Surgery is getting safer thanks to NIHR-funded research by an Oxford University team that has brought together two previously competing theories about how best to protect patients.
Mr Prasanna Sooriakumaran has been honoured by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) with a 2015 Young Investigator Award during the 22nd Annual Scientific Retreat in Washington, held 8-10 October.
The third event in the European Course in Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy (ECMINT) teaching series, themed on treatments for 'Stroke', will take place this December in Oxford.
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