Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 26th September 2011
Issue 52
DEPARTMENT NEWS:
Staff News: We welcome Tamara Al-Jamabi who has taken up post as a Data Manager in the
Wales Cancer Trials Unit.
----------------------------------------------------------Academic Meeting Programme 2010/2011: The
Clinical Epidemiology Institute will begin in November.
Professor Butler to review the teaching and research
academics, and then to bring the results of this review to
academic meeting programme for the
This is to provided an opportunity for
focus of the new Institute with senior
the academic meeting.
Best wishes,
John Gallacher
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Welsh Unit conducts World’s biggest lung cancer trial: Doctors in Cardiff are leading the
world's biggest lung cancer drugs trial with the aim of revolutionising the way the disease is treated.
The six-month trial based at the Welsh Cancer Trials Unit (WCTU) at the University Hospital of
Wales, Cardiff, will involve 156 hospitals and 2,200 patients from around the UK. Please see follow
the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14833658
TRIALS METHODS SEMINAR SERIES: The aim of this series is to provide trialists across the
School a chance to meet and discuss current issues & methods relating to trials. An initial set of
seminars has been proposed for this term, but ideas and offers for future sessions are welcome. All
are from 2-3pm.
Date
27th
September
Speaker
MRC conference
talks:
Dave Gillespie,
SEWTU
Title
Use of the Medication Event
Monitoring System for assessing
medication adherence for chronic
conditions: the case of ulcerative
colitis
Location
Tenovus Lecture Theatre
Exploring the ethical and practical
1
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Fiona Wood, PCPH
challenges of conducting clinical trials in
care home settings
25th
October
Kerry Hood,
SEWTU
22nd
November
20th
December
Annmarie Nelson,
MCPCRC/WCTU
tbc
Does how you ask matter? The
impact of mode of data collection on
reporting of subjective outcomes
Measuring what matters: the case for
qualitative research in drug trials
tbc
1F09, Michael Griffiths LT
1F09, Michael Griffiths LT
tbc
All are welcome
DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION:
Christmas Party Reminder – Thank you for submitting your responses and ideas for the
Christmas Party. We have come to a decision now based on the majority vote and have three
possible venues. Please could you confirm which venue and for which date you would prefer?
Swalec Stadium, Off Cathedral Road (available for most Fridays in December)
Please see attached menu for three course meal for the evening
Callaghan's Pub (in Holiday Inn Cardiff Central)
Buffet with DJ, Disco and two drinks for £15.25
Dates - 9th and 23rd December evening
Grape and Olive
Buffet with disco for £20.00
Dates - 9th and 16th December
Please could you e-mail your preferences to pcphadmin@cf.ac.uk by Friday 30th September.
---------------------------------------If maintenance work needs to be reported please e-mail Lisa at
The fault can then be logged and will be easier to chase up if
uncompleted by the specified date. Alternatively report the fault to Lisa at Reception on ext 87914
and she will report them on your behalf.
MAINTENANCE:
meirionnydd@cardiff.ac.uk.
----------------------------------------DATES FOR THE DIARY:
Healthcare Improvement Research Seminar Series 2010-2012 Dr Gareth Parry Public Lecture Wednesday 5th October 2011, 5pm
2
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Dr Gareth Parry is a Senior Scientist at the IHI and has been instrumental in a number of research
and evaluation projects within the patient safety and healthcare improvement agenda. (Please see
attached Bio).
Gareth will be giving a public lecture at the Glamorgan building at 5pm on Wednesday 5th
October. The title of the lecture is 'Quality Improvement and Evaluation - The Emerging Science'
and will include an assessment of where we are in evaluating programmes of quality improvement.
We would be very grateful if you could circulate news of Gareth's visit through your organisation.
So as to be aware of numbers to expect, please could you and other interested parties
follow the link below to complete the registration form for the lecture as soon as possible:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZQLG8Z
Should you require any
cassleydm@cardiff.ac.uk.
further
information
please
contact
Dawn
Cassley
on
Primary Care and Public Health Symposium - 26th October 2011. A reminder for the Primary
Care and Public Heath Symposium being held on 26th October 2011.
Dr. Tony Jewell, Chief Medical Officer for Wales will introduce the second annual symposium on
public health and primary care on the 26th October 2011at the Holiday Inn, Cardiff as part of the
autumn visit of Dr Phillip Baker, Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Director
of Epidemiology, Queensland Health, Australia and editor and contributing author for the Cochrane
Public Health Group.
The theme of the symposium this year will focus on evidence-based public health and primary care
practice and policy.
The symposium will bring together key primary care and public health professionals, practitioners,
policy makers and academics to exchange experience and expertise and explore ideas for future
research and development. It will be a relatively small audience, making it a more interactive
symposium.
The event is funded by the Wales School for Primary Care Research (http://www.wspcr.ac.uk) and
supported by the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Medicine, Cardiff
University.
There is a limited number of places for the symposium, so please book early if you do not want to
be disappointed. To register please click on the link below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HealthSymposium
Please note that the conference is free, although a cancellation fee of £30 may be levied for
cancellations that are not received by Monday 17th October to pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk.
3
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Best wishes
Robyn Davies
6th Julian Tudor Hart Lecture: Please find attached the flyer, booking form and speaker abstract
for the 6th Julian Tudor Hart lecture on the 30th November 2011. The lecture is entitled 'In Place of
Fear: Can Wales resist the English onslaught of market driven health care?' and will be delivered
by Professor Allyson Pollock, Queen Mary, University of London. To book a place please complete
the attached booking form and return to myself, Zoe Macdonald: MacdonaldZ@cardiff.ac.uk.
SWSAPC 2012: Peninsula Medical School is hosting SW SAPC 2012 in Torquay on 1 and 2
March 2012. We would be grateful if you could encourage your team to submit abstracts by 30
November. The form is available online at www.swsapc2012.co.uk
We are encouraging submissions from PPI co-authors, on service development /evaluation
projects and early career researchers (for whom there is the chance of a prize awarded by SAPC).
Willie Hamilton, Chair, SWSAPC 2012 Scientific Committee
Event
Date
Promoting Active and Healthy 29th Sept
Ageing Conference (13:00 –
17:00)
Dr Jen Cleland Addressing the 29th Sept
issue of Underperformance
Evidence-Based Practice in Public
Health
UK Society for Behavioural
Medicine 7th Annual Scientific
Meeting
Further information
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/unolder-persons-day-2011-september/
http://medicine.cf.ac.uk/en/event/dr-jencleland-addressing-the-issue-ofunderperformance/
24th – 25th Newsletter Issue 47
Oct 2011
13th – 14th http://uksbm.org.uk/asm2011/
December
Further
Info
–
Newsletter
Issue 40
Issue 44
Issue 47
Issue 41
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.
TRAINING
With the start of the new semester just around the corner it's time to kick off our schedule of IT
training courses for the 2011/12 academic year.
We always wait until the busyness of the start of the academic year has died down and so our
courses this year will be starting in w/b 10th October. Our schedule of courses is available at
4
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/insrveducation/en/category/IT+training+programme which will also update with
availability of places for each course. We are currently working on some new additional courses
that we hope to schedule before Christmas as so our current schedule only runs up until early
November
but
will
be
extended
soon
up
to
the
end
of
the
year.
All courses this year have been updated to the latest version of supported applications which
means that our most popular courses, Microsoft applications, are now offered as Office 2007
versions.
Refer to our web pages at http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/ittraining/courseprogramme.html for details of course content and prerequisites.
If you would like to book onto any of these courses we will need to know your Cardiff University
username and email address, a daytime contact number where we can get back to you and details
of the course(s) you wish to book onto.
On receipt of your booking we will contact you to confirm your request with details of how to make
the appropriate payment to cover the cost of attending the course, or courses, you have booked
onto. Where your school or division is covering this cost we accept internal trade payments via the
Oracle finance system but we can also accept cash, cheque and credit card payments if you are
paying for your own course booking.
To contact us, or to check availability of course places, send
insrveducation@cf.ac.uk or give us a ring us on university extension 74698.
a
message
to
IT
Invitation to submit a project proposal
We are delighted to be able to extend the eCPD Project that offers support from within INSRV’s
Learning and Teaching team. This is a great opportunity to receive support to help develop or
improve current eCPD activities.
Please find attached the following:
1) A call for proposals (includes submission details and selection criteria).
2) Project proposal proforma.
A couple of points to highlight are:
1) Please ensure your completed proforma is emailed by Friday 21 October 2011.
2) A Blackboard Module “eCPD Demo” is available to give an idea of what is achievable – please
see ‘Call for Proposals’ document attached for details on how to access.
Further details are attached. Please do not hesitate to contact Clare Sinclair, Business
Development Manager if you would like any further details. Tel:029 2087 5451 or email:
SinclairC@cardiff.ac.uk
5
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
--------------------------------------------------Network Problems: You will be aware that last Tuesday afternoon, there was a problem with the
core network switch for 40/41 Park Place causing an outage. This follows a scheduled upgrade to
our core switches and routers as part of the maintenance work which took place the previous
weekend.
As a result of yesterdays problem, we have had to roll back to the previous version of software on
switches in order to restore network connectivity.
Please note that until further notice, the network will be running **at-risk** whilst this problem is
investigated.
We are committed to ensuring the network remains as stable as possible during this busy
enrolment period. Please rest assured that we will not make further changes to the network unless
there is a confirmed and clear danger to network stability which mandates urgent intervention. An
agreed and recommended plan of action would then need to be discussed, following consultation
with the equipment manufacturer.
A senior engineer from the equipment manufacturer has arrived on site and is now working with
our Network team to try to ascertain the root cause of the problem, as well as helping to ensure
network stability.
Further updates will be forthcoming, once I have additional information.
For details regarding all ongoing risks and confirmed outages, please see the INSRV Status
page at http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrvstatus
------------------------------------------------------------------Cardiff Portal - September update
What is being done? This is our standard monthly release providing bug fixes and new features.
When is it being done? Wednesday 28th September - 1300-1700
Who will be affected? All users of Cardiff Portal
How will this affect users? Cardiff Portal will be unavailable during the specified time. An outage
page will provide links to key services during this period.
Why is it being done? To improve functionality, fix known issues and release new features.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
6
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Release of BlackBerry Express for privately-owned BlackBerry devices
What is being done? The BlackBerry Express service is being released to all members of Cardiff
University. This service enables privately-owned BlackBerry devices to instantly receive Cardiff
University email and calendaring directly to the device.
When is it being done? The service is available as from today - Monday, 26th September 2011
Who will be affected? Anyone with a privately-owned BlackBerry device can register to use this
service.
How will this affect users? To register for BlackBerry Express, contact insrvConnect either by
telephone on 029 2087 4487 or by emailing insrvConnect@Cardiff.ac.uk. The information required
is:
 Staff or Student
 Full name
 University e-mail Address
 University username
The requestor will then be given details of how to self-activate the service following registration.
Why is it being done? To extend much of the functionality of the existing corporate BlackBerry
service to privately-owned BlackBerry devices, as frequently requested by users across the
University.
----------------------------------------------------The XP image (version 855, released last week) now contains Sophos anti-virus software as
opposed to Kaspersky.
For any non-855 imaged workstations that encounter issues with Kaspersky, or if messages are
displayed that the licence will expire on 1st October, the recommendation is to remove Kaspersky
and install Sophos.
Please do so via following path:
Start→Networked Applications→General Software→Trial Applications→Deploy Sophos (will need
a restart but doesn't automatically reboot the workstation)
This will remove the standard version of Kaspersky and install Sophos. Any non-standard
installations of Kaspersky (ie if anyone has downloaded Kaspersky from the web for any reason)
should be manually removed (using Add/Remove Programs) and the utility run to install Sophos.
For those of you who are authorised to remote-manage machines, it might be useful to update any
affected workstations should the opportunity arise and of course if time allows.
Please note that if any schools should have changed their local administrator password, this will
have subsequently prevented the automatic key upgrade by the Kaspersky server. The security
team can update the keys automatically but will need you to advise them of the password - if you
7
Department of Primary Care and Public Health
wish to do this, please contact the security team (Gary White) directly on ext. 77120 - do not send
passwords via the email system. Your insrvAssist contact for this message is Jackie Kirk.
-------------------------------------------------------Special Offers for Staff: Peacocks and John Lewis
Peacocks
Peacocks on Queen Street are once again offering a fantastic offer of 40% off to all staff of
Cardiff University. The offer starts on Saturday 24th September and ends on Sunday 2nd October
2011. You can shop at any time in the store during this above time period, just present your Staff
ID card at the till. The branch has also just opened a childrenswear department, so you can save
on even more items. Note: This offer is exclusive to the store on Queen Street and certain terms
and conditions may apply.
John Lewis
John Lewis Cardiff are inviting Cardiff University members of staff to their Beauty Event on Friday
30th September. The event will be taking place between 5pm and 8pm in the Beauty Hall. There
will be complimentary drinks and canapes, gift bags, makeovers and entry into a prize draw.
Tickets for the event can be purchased for £5 from John Lewis Cardiff, or call 029 2053 6000. The
cost of the ticket is redeemable against any beauty purchase on the evening. Please see the
attached flyer for further details
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
8