Regional News

Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) is trialling new psychometric tests as part of its admission process for nursing undergraduates. QUB’s School of Nursing and Midwifery has revised its [...]

In a ComRes survey commissioned by the Royal College of General Practitioners Northern Ireland (RCGPNI), more than one-in-four of NI GPs (26 per cent) say they are so stressed they feel they [...]

Over 250 professionals working in dementia care, mental health, acute care, learning disability, and older people’s services recently turned out for the ‘Dementia: Transforming the Journey’ [...]

A new study recently published has found a way to identify men with locally advanced prostate cancer who are less likely to respond well to radiotherapy. Led by Professor Catharine West, the [...]

Every week in the Western Trust two children are taken in to care, resulting in Kieran Downey, Director of Women and Children’s Services at the Western Trust, emphasising the very urgent need for [...]

The Department of Health has published The Prevalence of Autism (Including Aspergers Syndrome) in School Age Children in Northern Ireland 2018. These figures have been extracted from the Northern [...]

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have identified a protein that is strongly associated with metastatic breast cancer and that could be a target for future therapies. High levels of [...]

Cancer Caring Coping (www.qub.ac.uk/sites/CancerCaringCoping) is a new online resource created by cancer caregivers for cancer caregivers. It is based on research by Dr Olinda Santin from Queen’s [...]

Over 70 health and research professionals came together for a workshop on 17th April to ensure that Northern Ireland actively contributes to setting the health systems research agenda for the [...]

Ulster University recently hosted MEG UK 2018 – an annual conference focused on bringing together research groups working with the brain imaging modality, Magnetoencephalography (MEG), in the UK. [...]