This course focuses on finding evidence-based health information, is mostly hands-on and also includes time spent practising search skills with support from the course leader. Includes PICO Search strategy, NHS Evidence databases, Cochrane database, Psyc TESTS.

Flyer for more information.

Please note these courses are open to Notts Healthcare Trust Staff only.

All attendees must have a valid Athens account for the session. Please register for one here.

Duncan Macmillan House (IT Training Dept)
Thursday 16 May 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Monday 17 June 10.00am - 12 noon

Rampton Hospital (Mike Harris Centre IT Training Room)
Wednesday 24 April 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Thursday 23 May 10.00am - 12 noon
Friday 28 June 10.00am - 12.00 noon

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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is hosting two Research Training events in May 2013.

Finding the Evidence – delivered by Tom Kelly
Thursday 23 May 2013
IT room – Mike Harris Learning & Development Centre, Rampton Hospital
10am – 12 noon
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis – delivered by Mike Ferriter
Thursday 23 May 2013
Mike Harris Learning & Development Centre, Rampton Hospital
1.30pm – 4pm
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A two-day learning event run by NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands. The course is designed to help in the preparation of applications to the National Institute for Health Research or other research funding body.
Dates: June 4 and 5
Venue: Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham

Event flyer

The Symposium, now in its sixth year, is the field's premier knowledge event. It features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of UK and international health services research. The Symposium will bring together services leaders and users, researchers, practitioners, senior managers and policy makers.

Dates: 17-18 June

Venue: East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

For call for abstracts, submissions, delegate information, please visit the NHS Confederation website.

This course will appeal to all those interested in completing a Cochrane-style review. Experienced tutors and facilitators will be available to give you practical and individual advice. After attending the course, participants should be able to understand search strategies, extract data, manage the results of systematic searches, understand the syntheses of the data, apply the methods and conduct reviews independently.

Who should attend: All people wishing to undertake reviews of randomised studies.

More information

Date: Tuesday 2nd - Friday 5th July 2013  

Venue: University of Nottingham

Course fee: £699. All learning materials, lunch, refreshments and the evening meal on the Thursday are all included.

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Date: 2 July 2013
Venue: East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham

Invited speakers include Professor Maud Graff (from the Netherlands) who will talk about her ground-breaking research in rehabilitating people with moderate and severe dementia and its implementation in other parts of Europe, and Professor Rowan Harwood (University of Nottingham) who will discuss the concept of managed decline in people deemed to have 'no rehab potential'.

Professor Marion Walker MBE will also talk about 'Progress in Rehabilitation Research: What have we learned from the RCT? Where to from here?' and Professor Jan Ekholm of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm will talk about 'Vocational Rehabilitation: the role of health, the evidence and the future?'

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 4th April. To find out more see the conference flyer or visit the event website.

The Critical Perspectives on Health and Social Care Seminars for 2012/13 are organised by the University of Nottingham's School of Sociology and Social Policy and are intended to highlight critical analyses of health and social care activities and organisations.

The aim is to give better voice to such perspectives and explore opportunities for debate and collaboration within the University and with other partners. In times of tightened public spending and changing public expectations there is a growing need for critical thinking and innovation in health and social care education and practice.

The series runs from October 2012 to June 2013 and is arranged as approximately monthly meetings in term time, beginning at 5.30pm and ending with an opportunity to meet over light refreshments. Each will centre upon a presentation from an invited speaker but plenty of time will be available for discussion and networking amongst attendees. These seminars may be of interest to academics and practitioners across a wide range of health and social care interests and backgrounds.

Critical perspectives-full series programme 2012-13

Venue: B63, Law and Social Sciences building, University Park, Nottingham

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