3 news items: research, refugees and routes to public health

[Guest guest]

Dear Senate,

Wednesday's Guardian flagged up three separate areas that may interest members:

1) This autumn PPP Healthcare Medical Trust will offer new research training

opportunities for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health

professionals through Fellowships (for individuals) and Partnership awards (for

universities). No advert yet for applications, but worth planning bids ahead if

you are interested !

2) The European Refugee Fund have again given millions of euros to the Home

Office, who way they will spend up to 25% on projects around reception and

integration of refugees (the rest will go on booting them out of the country

a.k.a. 'repatriation'). The requirement for innovative HV or SN proposals is

that they bring some matched funding from other sources (perhaps PMS would be a

potential health service source ?). Queries marked 'ERF project guidelines'

should go to either stephen.mccracken@... or

ian.barton@...

3) The NHS Executive London are offering 2 more fully-funded (inc. 26K salary &

the St. 's masters course & a choice of training attachments around

London) training places in Multidisciplinary Public Health. Requests for forms

quoting reference PHT to BEH health authority on 020 8272 5723, informal

enquiries to Enoch on 020 8966 1093.

Good luck,

Woody.