Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 17th January 2011
Issue 18
PARALLEL MEETINGS
Tuesday 18th January 2011, 2.00 – 3.00 pm
Room GF001: Gareth Griffiths will present on Randomised Phase 2 Designs for Academic / Pharma
Collaborations.
Room GF003: (Qualitative Methods Group) Denitza Stoilova will be presenting work from her PhD.
The presentation is entitled: "Exploring attitudes to HPV self-sampling among a socially-stratified sample of
Welsh women"
Room GF005: (Psychology Group): Rachel McNamara and Sharon Simpson will be presenting on UK
Society of Behavioural Medicine, 2010.
Room GF007: (Education Group) The Education group will meet to hold its regular meeting with the
main purpose of improving the teaching delivered by Departmental staff.
2nd Floor Seminar Room: (Infections Group) These monthly group lunchtime meetings offer an
informal setting for researchers to network, develop collaborations and share ideas which fit within the
Applied Infection domain of the IRG. Areas of interest include respiratory tract infections, urinary tract
infections, HPV, Campylobacter, HIV, skin and soft tissue infections, and hospital associated infections and
explore the interests of behaviour change, near patient tests, antibiotic use and resistance, patient and
parent attitudes, biomarkers, complications and vaccines. Contact: Nick Francis
4th Floor Seminar Room: (EPISCREEN Group) The group will discuss the case control study on
gastroschisis and the new data on flooding and social cohesion.
NEXT WEEK’S PARALLEL SESSION: A journal club has been scheduled as one of the sessions for 1st
February 2011. If you have a paper that you would like to put forward for discussion, please email this to
pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk and this can be added to the sessions.
New Members of Staff: The Department is delighted to welcome Peter Hunt and Naomi Martell who
have both been appointed to provide admin support in the ISP Unit in Park Place.
DATES FOR THE DIARY:
Curriculum Conference: Wednesday 2nd March 2011: You are invited to register for the 1st Annual
Curriculum Conference - "All Wales Medical Teaching Showcase". It will be held in the Michael Griffith
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Resource Centre, UHW. Registration will be from 8.45am - 9.30am. Conference will begin at 9.30am with
lunch 1.15pm-2pm. The conference will close at 4pm.
Deadline Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History: Thursday 20th January 2011
Free public lecture 7.30pm (refreshments available from 7pm).
Microbes have inhabited planet Earth for over 4 billion years, in contrast modern man only evolved some
200,000 years ago and we are still learning to live in harmony with microbes; the invisible enemy. Using
examples of infections diseases such as tuberculosis, plague and smallpox, Professor
Dorothy Crawford will show how microbes have exploited every change in our ancestor’s lifestyle to infect
and reproduce, thereby ensuring their own future. The talk will end by posing the question: are we better
or worse off today than our ancestors were?
Speaker: Professor Dorothy Crawford, The University of Edinburgh
Admission: Free, no booking required
Location: Large Chemistry Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3AT.
The Qualitative Research Unit
Swansea University’s College of Medicine
Invite you to attend
A Master Class in Innovative Methods in Health and Social Science
Research“Patient-centred Professionalism”
nd
Tuesday 22 March 2011, 10am-3.30pm (registration from 9.30am)
Sketty Hall, Sketty Lane, Swansea
What does ‘patient-centred professionalism’ mean and to whom? Do health professionals understand the
term and is this evidenced in their daily working lives, their use of workspace, their relationships with
others and their sense of self? How does a patient-centred professional approach affect their work with
patients and is this of any benefit to patients or others?
A team of researchers at Swansea University (College of Medicine, College of Science and College of
Human and Health Sciences) have been examining the nature and impact of ‘patient-centred
professionalism’ across community care settings, working with those in general practice, community
pharmacy and community nursing to elicit a wide-range of views and experiences from health professionals
and patients. The Master Class will bring this work together, through its emphasis on presenting aspects of
these studies in relation to novel applications of mixed-method approaches for data capture including biophotographic methods, consensus building activities, and Nominal Group Work.
During the Master Class, participants will be encouraged to share their views on innovative method use and
their own experiences of working in a patient-centred professional manner or being at the receiving end of
care, and participation is welcomed from a wide-ranging disciplinary audience of: health professionals,
researchers, academics and students. Participants will work closely with members of the research team to
discuss methods and their applications, and the effect of patient-centred professionalism on practice and
personal and professional values through both didactic teaching and interactive work.
The whole-day event should be of interest to all parties, irrespective of research experience or knowledge
of patient-centred professionalism.
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he Master Class is at the highly reduced rate of £30 per person (£20 for students), through the generous
sponsorship of The General Nursing Council for England and Wales Trust and the Pharmacy Practice
Research Trust. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Please note that places are limited. Further
details please contact: Vicky Davies Tel. 01792 513407 Email. v.i.davies@swansea.ac.uk
Registration forms are attached.
SAPC2011: The department is hosting this years conference being held in the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff on 17th
and 18th March. Registration is now open with the reduced early bird registration available until 11th
February
2011.
Registration
forms
and
further
information
can
be
found
at
http://www.swsapc2011.co.uk/.
ADMIN
The School of European Studies have the following items available which are free of charge, if you are
interested or would like further details please contact Mark Cooper or Iris Winney directly on Ext 74588 or
email euros-it@cardiff.ac.uk
4 x Sony TCM 939 Cassette recorders
These record from the built in microphone, or alternatively an external microphone can be connected.
Mains powered or 4 AA batteries.
An image of the recorder is available:
http://dropship.weareelectricals.com/product_images/e/676/img4cf0a77c1695e__00268_zoom.jpg
1 x Sanyo Memo-Scriber TRC7050A
Mini cassette transcribing machine
An image of the device is available:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ndw-p3eyL._SL500_.jpg
3 x Olympus Pearlcorder S702
Portable microcassette recorders
Uses XB60 cassettes
Up to 3 hours recording time per tape
Powered by 2 AA batteries
Further details available:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_archived_product_details.asp?id=1206&fl=2
(Note that these are untested as we don't have any tapes)
SPECIAL OFFER ON DELL A3 LASERJET PRINTER:
Phoenix Computers have a special offer on
A3 Laserjet printers. We have 50 x Dell A3 Mono Laser Printers at way below our normal buy price. Normal
sell out is £ 1,442 ( Amazon sell at £ 1,659, Printware at £ 2,064 and Printerbase at £ 1,920 ). I can offer
these to Cardiff University @ £ 1,099 + vat whilst stocks last. Contact Duncan Batty, Phoenix Computers,
0114 258 8343
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IT
As part of INSRV's continued series of improvements, in close consultation with the Schools and
Directorates, a proposal was discussed, and agreed to change the backup retention period for networked
file store (Home and Shared) and email from one year to three months.
What does this mean for my School/Directorate? Any file that is deleted or corrupted within the
past 3 months, and has been stored for more than one day, will normally be recoverable. Any that fall
outside of the 3-month period will no longer be available for recovery.
Why is this change necessary? The required significant increase in networked file store, to be
implemented during Summer 2011, would dramatically increase the costs of backup. In order to constrain
these costs within the agreed budgets, whilst progressing with the increase in networked file store, we
need to adjust our backup retention period accordingly.
When is this change being implemented? In order to prepare for the increase in networked file store,
we wish to implement this well in advance, with a proposed date of Monday 7th February 2011.
Unavailability of ORCA - Monday 24th January, 08:00 - 08:30
What is being done? Upgrade to ORCA (orca.cf.ac.uk)
When is it being done? Monday 24th January, 08:00 - 08:30
Who will be affected? All user of ORCA
How will this affect users? Users will be unable to view or deposit items in the repository during the stated
period Why is it being done? As part of the i-Wire project.
Items for the Newsletter: If you would like to include a contribution to the newsletter, please email
pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk by Friday at 3.00 pm
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