⚠️ Our Emergency Department is under extreme pressure this morning.

Please only attend A&E if it's a life-threatening situation 🏥

👉 Call NHS 111 or visit 111 online if you need medical help.

👉 Use your local Urgent Treatment Centre for minor injuries.

Thank you. 💙

Take a moment out of your day and just...breathe ☁️

Replay as many times as you need 🔁

#StressAwarenessMonth #LittleByLittle

New paper doi.org/10.3310/TWDU41…
Causes & solutions to workplace psychological ill-health for #nurses , #midwives & #paramedics
.'.strongly suggests the need to improve the systemic working conditions & the working lives..to improve their psychological well-being.' Naomi Klepacz

Happy #NationalAdministrativeProfessionalsDay !! Research across our university-hospital partnership is underpinned by the amazing efforts of administrative professionals. Thank you to all our administrative colleagues. #WeAreUHS #NHSAdminHeroes #LeadTheWay

There is a shortage of eye donors. The NHS target is 350 donations per week; only 88 take place.

Researchers assessed the potential for eye donations in hospice & palliative care settings, and developed an intervention to support eye donation: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/hospice-…

Health Sciences, UoS

Research from Health Sciences, UoS shows that few people in #PalliativeCare are approached about eye donation. However, it also shows that:

🧑service users want to have these conversations
👨‍⚕️clinicians do too, but are afraid of saying the wrong thing
bit.ly/3Jloxvr NHS Organ Donation💗🫀🫁

'For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with one of so many serious smoking-related illnesses.'

Professor Sir Stephen Holgate Southampton Medicine welcomes the plan to ban anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes.

#smokingban

Exciting news! Thanks to Cancer Research UK, we've received a £1.4million boost to train doctors as clinical scientists to work on developing life-saving treatments 🔬

Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wIPwz

#CancerResearch #WeAreUoS

A 34-year research project is unlocking new insights into asthma and allergies.

Find out how our researchers have been following up on the health of over a thousand people on the Isle of Wight since they were born in 1989 here 👉 brnw.ch/21wIKVV

This year’s #StressAwarenessMonth theme is #LittleByLittle so we wanted to share some small everyday steps you can take to help reduce stress.

Check them out 👇

Among 106,904 maternal admissions, understaffing by registered midwives was associated with an 11% increase in harmful incidents. doi.org/10.1186/s12913… latest from Lesley Turner NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex Health Sciences, UoS Health Sciences, UoS

Our University Hospital Southampton 💙 surgeon, Thomas Dudding, is asking people how research can help those who have bowel accidents - thought to affect up to 10% of UK adults.

The survey is open until 12th April. All responses are anonymous. 👇
research.uhs.nhs.uk/news/unanswere…

🚨 📺 Tune in now! 👇

The new series ' #Surgeons : At the Edge of Life' is just minutes away on BBC Two. Get ready for gripping surgeries and inspiring stories! 🏥

Let us know what you think of episode one - 'A Risk Worth Taking' 📣

#WeAreUHS 💙

Good morning! 😃

We are proud to introduce another WASP Conference speaker: Dr Lindsey Cherry Lindsey Cherry.

An associate professor University of Southampton & Podiatrist & Education Lead at Southampton Central PCN.

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Please RT - Research Fellow position in Thermal Physiology available in our lab - start date Sept 2024 - see advert here, closing date May 15th jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… The Physiological Society American Physiological Society Health Sciences, UoS

Thrilled to continue with the 'Building good technique' series with physiotherapy students. This series of 6 sessions supports students in honing skills for motivational interviewing so that they can suceed in their final assessments.University of Southampton Health Sciences, UoS Southampton University Physiotherapy Programme

COVID-19 has had lasting effects on people of all ages.

This includes a sharp rise in child obesity levels that could have lasting effects, according to new research led by NIHR Southampton BRC.

Keith Godfrey, MBE explains more in the The Guardian 👇

theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…