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SWSLHD 9th Annual Patient Safety Seminar & Quality Awards

The SWSLHD 9th Annual Patient Safety Seminar & Quality Awards was held at Liverpool Hospital on Thursday 19th September to a capacity crowd. It was an engaging morning with valuable insights, touching stories and innovative projects all centred around the theme, "Transforming the Experience of Vulnerable Patients". 

The presentation of the SWSLHD Quality Awards 2019 kicked off with a video montage showcasing the diversity and calibre of this year's submissions (a record 87 in total). The awards recognised excellence in clinical, quality and research endeavours, across twelve different categories:

• Patients and Carers as Partners
• Integrated HealthCare
• Improvement in Patients Safety
• Keeping People Healthy
• Health Research and Innovation
• Enhancing the Patient's Experience through Arts
• Collaboration - Working as a Team
• Excellence in the Provision of Non-Acute/Sub-Acute Care
• Excellence in the Provision of Non-Clinical Support Services
• Excellence in the Provision of Care and Services to Aboriginal Clients
• SWSLHD Board Award 2019
• SWSLHD Patient Safety Champion 2019 Award

CONGRATULATIONS to all awardees!

MDCTP Clinical Trials Workshop

Date: Thursday, 26th September, 2019
Time: 9.00am-5.00pm
Venue: Cicada Innovations, 4 Cornwallis St, Eveleigh

Designed for medical entrepreneurs, researchers and clinical staff who want to understand more about the steps in developing a clinical trial from idea through to protocol, this 1-day workshop with Southern Star Research and Cicada Innovations will explore concepts such as:

• Regulations Governing Clinical Trials in Australia
• Setting up a Clinical Trial – insight into clinical trial protocols, site and CRO selection, ethical approval, budgeting and contracts
• Device vigilance in the context of clinical trials
• Biometrics departments and why you need them. Key roles and responsibilities
• What you need to effectively resource a study and;
• Hints and tips on where to find funding to get your trial off the ground.

Prevention Centre Panel Session: Hate as a Public Health Issue

Date: Monday, 30th September, 2019
Time: 2.00pm-4.00pm
Venue: Webster Lecture Theatre, Veterinary Sciences Conference Centre, USyd

The Prevention Centre is hosting visiting public health expert, Professor Sandro Galea, one of America's leading voices in health and society. Professor Sandro Galea is an author, epidemiologist, physician and Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health.

The objective of the session is to create a more critically reflective conversation about hate and how to redress it in our society.

Working with MBS and PBS Data

Date: Friday, 1st November, 2019
Time: 9.30am-3.30pm
Venue: Aerial Function Centre, 235 Jones Street, Ultimo

The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) are valuable data resources with untapped potential to identify and monitor patterns of health service use and inform health service planning.

The Sax Institute invites you to attend this seminar on working with MBS and PBS data, which will provide insights into the multiple ways these datasets can be used.

Yarramundi Postgraduate Research Scholarship

Western Sydney University is excited to announce a new scholarship program to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students wanting to study a higher degree research degree at WSU. 

The scholarships will be awarded to PhD candidates where the students will receive $50,000 per year, for three years to support living costs. Tuition fees will be supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset.

Applications close 6th October 2019.

Lifestyle Programmes in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Sydney

The Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Translational Research Unit (DOMTRU) is offering a research scholarship to a highly motivated PhD candidate to work within DOMTRU to research the relationship between lifestyle, lifestyle change and the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes among adults and children from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Sydney. The project is funded by Western Sydney University.

Domestic candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $30,000 per annum for up to 3 years to support living costs, supported by the Research Training Program (RTP) Fee Offset.

Applications close 30th September 2019.

RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS | Knee Osteoarthritis Study

Researchers from NICM Health Research Institute at Western Sydney University are seeking participants for a study assessing if a herbal medication can reduce pain from knee osteoarthritis.

The study will involve taking medication morning night for 12 weeks, 3 visits to a study centre at Campbelltown or Westmead campus, filling out questionnaires, having some physical tests done and safety blood tests. You will also be asked to record in a diary your intake of the medications. You will reimbursed 3 x $30 for travel expenses to the campus should you be eligible for the study.

For further information and to register your interest please go to www.nicm.edu.au/kneepainstudy or contact the study investigator Christine Murray on 0488-228-474 or Christine.murray@westernsydney.edu.au

REGIS and Research Information Webinars | SWSLHD

Given the success of the weekly webinars held in the month of August, the Research Directorate will be holding REGIS + Research Information Webinars every second Wednesday at 2:00pmvia Pexip. Slides from previous presentations can be accessed on the Research Directorate website under Training.

The webinars will cover:

• Research basics
• How to use REGIS and make various submissions
• Suggestions on how to answer questions in your application
• What information we are looking for in an SSA
• What the HREC wants to see in your application
• Overview of research policies and guidelines
• Data storage… what you should and shouldn’t do

Training will be ongoing. For further information on the topics to be covered please check the SWSLHD Research Office website.

The webinars will be on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The current schedule of webinars is as follows: