Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 27th June 2011
Issue 37
DEPARTMENT NEWS / INFORMATION
TUESDAY 28th June, 2.00 pm. Ground Floor Meeting Rooms, Neuadd Meirionnydd
Education Parallel Session on 28th June, 2.00 pm, GF001. We have a parallel workshop directed at
helping members of the department who are applying for membership and fellowship of the Academy of
Medical Educators. Dr Aidan Byrne will be sharing his knowledge and expertise as one of the Academy's
assessors. Everybody is warmly invited. We would strongly encourage all department members whose
work includes education to attend. Best wishes, Andy Grant
Infections Meeting, GF003.
Psychology Group - Control Theory - James White, GF007.
Qualitative Methods Group - Marie-Jet Bekkers (Theoretical frameworks), GF005.
---------------------------------------------------Recycling: It has been reported that some members of staff are leaving boxes and recycling goods in the
corridors by the lifts which could be a fire hazard. Could we ask that staff do not leave empty boxes in
these areas. The cleaning staff have confirmed that there are two recycling pick ups per week. These are
Monday (floors 9-6) and Thursday (floors 5-1). This maybe useful for staff to note if they are collecting
boxes and recycled goods.
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The Academic Career Path - Briefing Session. Prof. Terry Threadgold, Pro Vice Chancellor for Staff
and Mrs Susan Midha, Director of Leadership & Training have kindly agreed to hold a briefing session for
School of Medicine staff interested in the academic promotions process here at the Heath on the 13th July
at 2.00pm - 3.30pm in the Wound Healing Seminar Room.
The session will be aimed at potential promotion candidates and will cover Cardiff's systems governing
academic promotion to: Senior Lectureship, Senior Professional Tutor, Readership, and Personal Chair,
which will include advice on structuring teaching and research profiles to support these career progression
processes.
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We will allocate spaces on a first come / first served basis, if you could please confirm your intention to
attend for refreshment purposes it would be much appreciated. For any further information please contact
Ali Tovar in the School HR Office.
School Contribution to Spectacles: The School of Medicine Finance Office has recently had numerous
queries about the £50 School contribution with regards to paying for spectacles. The School has asked that
the information below is distributed to all staff.
Under Health and Safety legislation, Cardiff University (the employer) is required to provide members of
staff who are "users" of display screen equipment (DSE) with an eye and eyesight test. Please note that
this is only applicable to contracted staff members and not students or visiting academics. Users of DSE
should receive ongoing regular re-testing every 2 years, or sooner when recommended by an Optometrist.
Eyesight tests should be carried out by the School of Optometry. Approval for eye and eyesight tests must
be obtained in advance from either the Head of School or Directorate, or other appropriate authorised
person. You will need to obtain a Purchase Order number from the School Finance Office prior to visiting
Optometry in order to obtain your eye test.
With effect from 1st January 2009, Cardiff University will contribute a maximum of £50 towards the cost of
corrective appliances (e.g. spectacles / contact lenses), if they are required for use specifically with DSE at
work. In general, if spectacles and lenses worn by the DSE user are required for both general use and DSE
use, a contribution CANNOT be made as this would give rise to a taxable benefit. Please contact the eye
clinic in the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences for more detailed information.
CURRENT JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DEPARTMENT
Advertised Externally
Research Associate (Qualitative Researcher), Grade 6 (Job Reference: 2011/0304) – Fixed
term for 12 months. To work with the Principal and Co-investigators on a qualitative research project
funded by The Stepping Stones lung cancer charity to investigate participant experience of the FRAGMATIC
clinical trial, which investigates thromboprohylaxis in advanced cancer patients.. Closing Date: 6th July
2011
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Trials Clerical Officer, Grade 3 (Job Reference: 2011/0308) – Fixed term until 30th April 2012.
To provide administrative, clerical and data management support, with a high level of accuracy and
meticulous attention to detail, to research teams running a portfolio of multi centre randomised trials
throughout the UK aimed at improving treatments for cancer.. Closing Date: 5th July 2011
Data Manager, Grade 5 (Job Reference: 2011/0277) – Fixed term until 31/12/12. To ensure
data is entered, coded and validated in a timely and accurate manner. To assist Trial Managers in the dayto-day co-ordination of clinical trials, ensuring projects run to schedule and to regulatory standards. To
assist Trial Managers in supporting Chief Investigators, research planning groups, Trial Steering
Committees and Trial Management Groups, with particular responsibility for data completeness and quality.
Closing Date: 12th July 2011
MEIRIONNYDD:
We are waiting for confirmation of the start date for paving around the entrance of Neuadd. As soon as a
date has been confirmed we will send out further information.
GENERAL NOTICES
Co-operative Travel are operating an Emergency Out of Hours Service and the telephone number is
included on all booking confirmations, as you will see from the information provided below the telephone
number is only to be used either when the office is closed or there is a genuine emergency as the examples
below show.
Please take note that the call is chargeable and rates differ.
We operate an Emergency Out of Hours service and the telephone number is included on all booking
confirmations. Please note this telephone is to be used when the office is closed and for genuine
emergencies only and there is a pre-recorded message advising the caller there could be a charge for the
call.
An example of non emergency calls are:
 Obtaining flight schedules or chasing rail tickets for non imminent travel
 Adding passport details to bookings to comply with Advanced Passenger Information System(APIS)
requirements
 Booking seats
An emergency could be classed as:
 Flights being cancelled and alternative arrangements/advice required
 Changes to imminent travel arrangements that require rebooking or reissuing
 Unscheduled changes to bookings confirmed by the Co-operative Travel Management including
queries on hotel billing arrangements
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Taster Welsh Lessons: New to Wales? Or never learnt Welsh? We have arranged for the School of
Welsh Studies to run an informal 1 hour per week introductory course of beginners Welsh for 10 weeks
starting in September.
The idea is to make it a relaxed, sociable occasion reserved for members of the School of Medicine, and
less intensive than other available courses. The course is part-sponsored by the School but there will be a
small charge of £3.50 per lesson. Tea, coffee and perhaps something stronger will be provided!
The course will take place in the Reading Room, C2 Link, Centre for Endocrine and Diabetes Studies, on
Wednesdays 5-6pm, starting Wednesday Sept 22. Please let Lynne Hope know if you would
like to take part by SEPT 1st at HopeLM@cardiff.ac.uk.
DATES FOR THE DIARY:
Health & Wellbeing event
at
The Manor Suite, Celtic Manor Resort
9.30am Doors open, Starts 10.00am – 12.30pm
with special guest speaker:
Dr Nyjon Eccles BSc, PhD, MBBS, MRCP
Following his double doctorate in medicine and pharmacology, Dr Eccles has worked as a general and
naturopathic physician with special interest in supportive nutritional treatments that promote well-being and
recovery. He significantly expanded his knowledge of natural medicine by blending research, extensive
training and clinical practice. The outcome has been the compilation of an extremely powerful repertoire of
treatments and products. He has a special interest in natural cancer and cellular health therapy and has
become well known for his treatment and product interventions in the field of nutritional medicine and also
for his research based verifications of non-conventional treatments. As medical director of the Chiron clinic
in Harley street, London (www.chironclinic.com) he has become the UK’s leading clinician involved with
medical infrared thermal imaging and particularly its application as a non-invasive tool for early detection
and monitoring of breast cancer. Much of his time is spent in research and his reputation is supported by
numerous papers and scientific reviews on a wide range of topics related to integrated medicine. He is
listed in the “Who’s Who” for outstanding achievement in his field.
Dr Eccles will focus on the growing evidence that good nutrition is vital to the repair, recovery and
maintenance of the body and the only way of achieving and retaining good health.
All medical or health care students free
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear this truly illuminating speaker
For more information or to reserve your place call Sue Worrall on 07816 824762 or Sarah
Griffiths on 07769 875753
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The following events have already been advertised in the newsletter. Please refer to the relevant edition
for booking forms. Past editions of the newsletter can be found on the department webpages.
Event
Date
Further information
Further Info
–
Newsletter
Issue 38
Issue 37
1st July
The
5th
Mammalian
Genes, 8th July
Development and Disease Meeting
"Getting
published"
Workshop 11th July
(10.15-12.15)
http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/red/i3/
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/event/dr-kevin-evascholarship-in-medical-education-2011/
Issue 37
"Scholarship in medical education: 11th July
Finding your niche" (13.00 – 14.00)
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/event/dr-kevin-evascholarship-in-medical-education-2011/
Issue 37
Language Awareness in Research: 20th July
Legislative, methodological and
ethical issues
www.LLAIS.org
Issue 38
Second I3 Network Meeting
http://www.bris.ac.uk/physpharm/conference/genes/
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TRAINING
Mandatory Fire Safety Awareness Sessions: The Trust have organised a number of sessions for staff.
If you were unable to make the sessions earlier this year could you please attend one of these sessions
below.
Day
Date
Course Title
Venue
Time
Thursday 14th July
2011
Fire Safety
Training - Planned
Lecture Theatre 2, Main
Hospital, UHW
9.15am registration
9.30am to 10.15am
Monday
Fire Safety
Training - Planned
Lecture Theatre 2, Main
Hospital, UHW
2.00pm-2.15pm
Registration
2.15pm - 3.00pm
18th July
2011
FOR ALL TRAINING SESSIONS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY OR EXTERNALLY PLEASE NOTE THAT
THE PRE COURSE TRAINING QUESTIONNAIRE NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND SIGNED OFF BY
YOUR LINE MANAGER. THIS IS ALSO APPROVED BY HR BEFORE TRAINING CAN TAKE PLACE.
ATTACHED IS A COPY OF THE PRE-COURSE QUESTIONNAIRE.
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IT
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Remove replicas from previous eDirectory servers
What is being done? The six servers in the JCCS tree have now been replaced by new servers. The
previous databases are no longer needed and will be removed.
When is it being done? Tuesday 28th June - Friday 1st July - 10:00-16:00
Who will be affected? All users of managed workstations and iPrint.
How will this affect users? Users may find access to workstation services slower than normal.
Why is it being done? The old servers now need to be decommissioned.
Re-release of Adobe updates
What is being done? Departmental IT Staff can now install the updates ahead of the force run taking
place on Thursday 7th July.
If Adobe Reader 10 is on the workstation, then Adobe Reader 10.10, Flash 10.3.181.26 (for Firefox and IE),
Shockwave Player 11.6.0.626 will be installed.
If Adobe Reader (v9-9.44) is on the workstation, then Adobe Reader 9.45, Flash 10.3.181.26 (for Firefox
and IE), Shockwave Player 11.6.0.626 will be installed.
When is it being done? Thursday 7th July
Who will be affected? User logging into workstations that have earlier versions of Flash (as detailed
above).
How will this affect users? The updates can take approximately 5 minutes to install (depending on
network
load).
Why is it being done? These are critical Adobe updates which were released recently.
Issue with TEMP profiles when logging in
The issue with TEMP profiles is now resolved. However, monitoring of the incidence of TEMP profiles has
revealed that a handful of users continue to get TEMP profiles at log on, for a number of other reasons.
We are aware of certain other issues which users in your School's may be experiencing. If you receive any
such information from your users, please contact insrvConnect and we can provide further guidance.
Message recall activated in Lotus Notes
What is being done? The ability to recall internal emails has now been activated in Notes.
When is it being done? Wednesday 6th July
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Who will be affected? All users of Notes
How will this affect users? Users will now be able to recall emails sent *internally* only. You will not be
able to recall messages sent to external email addresses.
Why is it being done? In response to user demand
Repurposing of existing Filestore hardware
What is being done? Two disk trays are being removed and will be re-purposed. During this time,
Networked filestore (H & S) and iPrint will be affected.
When is it being done? Sunday 3rd July - 10:30-12:30
Who will be affected? All users of Networked filestore (H & S) and iPrint.
How
will
this
affect
users?
These
services
will
not
be
available
during
this
time.
Why is it being done? To repurpose hardware for our filestore project.
Socket unavailable
What is being done? Our online network management and registration system (Socket) requires
maintenance.
When is it being done? Friday 1st July - 12:00 - 14:00
Who will be affected? All users of Socket
How will this affect users? Socket will be unavailable during this time. New computer registrations will
not be able to be completed at this time.
Why is it being done? This is standard maintenance.
As previously advised, and due to limited user demand, DeltaGraph will be withdrawn as a centrallyprovided application on both the Windows and Mac platforms as from 1st July. (Individual Schools of
course may have already decided to purchase a license and continue to provide this application for their
own users.)
From this date, all existing copies that have been purchased or provided under the terms of the University's
license must be destroyed as a condition of that license.
A command will be force-run on 1st July to forcibly remove Deltagraph from Windows "imaged" machines.
This command will remove the C:\Program Files\Deltagraph 5 folder, as such existing users should be
alerted to this removal as the folder may well contain data files they wish to save and retain.
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Existing Mac users will find that they will be unable to use the software from this date as INSRV will no
longer be providing the essential license update installer.
SPECIAL OFFERS FOR STAFF:
Superdrug Health Checks: As there was such a large demand for the healthy heart checks; food intolerance
testing; allergy testing and mole checks being run by Superdrug during PHEW 2011, the available appointments
booked up very quickly. A number of people have expressed an interest in accessing these services outside of Positive
Health & Environment Week, so I have arranged for all members of Cardiff University staff to receive a 10% discount
when booking any of the above health checks instore at Superdrug on Queen Street. The discount is valid until the
end of August and staff will have to show their Staff ID card to claim the discount.
You can find further information at:
http://www.superdrug.com/health/health-services/icat/pharmacyservices/
You can contact the Superdrug Health Clinic on 029 2039 9504.
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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