Announcements
Dundee named among world’s `most international’ universities News
14th January, 2016
The University of Dundee has been named among the world’s 'most international’ universities in a new global list compiled by the leading higher education journal, Times Higher Education. Dundee is placed at 123rd in the Top 200 of the rankings. The University was also recently placed in the Top 200 of Times Higher Education’s (THE) latest overall World University Rankings. To c...
Fiona’s tablet tally rises to £53,000 for breast cancer research News
14th January, 2016
Sweet-toothed Taysiders and Fifers have boosted the fantastic fundraising efforts of a Dundee woman through sales of her homemade tablet – with over £53,000 raised for breast cancer research. Mrs Fiona Edwards has been fundraising since 2003 by selling her homemade tablet at running events and through friends and family around Tayside and Fife. Over the course of 2015 she raised &pou...;
Patient Care Award for NHS Tayside Physiotherapy Team News
5th January, 2016
The NHS Tayside Musculoskeletal (MSK) Team has been presented with an award for enhancing patient dignity and standards of care by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. The team, which is based across Tayside in GP practices, community and acute hospitals, received the national award at a ceremony in London. The award recognises the work undertaken by physiotherapy staff across Tayside to rede...
OBE for Professor Jill Belch News
5th January, 2016
Professor Jill Belch, Tayside Research and Development Director and outgoing co-Director of AHSP, has been awarded an OBE for her services to medicine. Her personal research career has made an outstanding contribution to the University’s reputation for excellence in translating new knowledge into effective patient care, having led more than 30 international multicentre clinical trials...
Dundee Physio Team Awarded for Excellence News
5th January, 2016
The Dundee Community Rehabilitation Team has won a national award for excellence at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy’s (CSP) annual awards. The awards recognise physiotherapy staff who show innovation and excellence to provide even better services for patients. The Dundee Community Rehabilitation Team, which is based at Kings Cross, picked up an award at the ceremony in London for dem...
`Sweet spot’ for treating diabetic patients with heart failure News
16th December, 2015
Researchers at the University of Dundee have discovered a 'sweet spot’ in the treatment of diabetes among patients with heart failure. Diabetes and heart disease are frequently seen together in patients and can be a lethal combination. To compound the problem, some anti-diabetic medications have been shown to worsen heart conditions like heart failure, a condition where the heart muscles be...
DNA repair enzyme mapped in atomic detail News
16th December, 2015
An enzyme crucial to the process of DNA repair in our cells has been mapped in atomic detail by researchers at the University of Dundee, the UK’s top-rated University for Biological Sciences. DNA repair plays a key role in human diseases such as cancer. Researchers say that revealing the 3D molecular structure of a key enzyme involved in this process could be an important step towards devel...
‘Value Your NHS’ public campaign in NHS Tayside News
4th December, 2015
In the run up to the busy festive period, NHS Tayside is reminding people to select the health service that best suits their needs, saving Accident & Emergency departments for real emergencies. ‘Know Who To Turn To’ will see all NHS Tayside sites including GPs, pharmacists and health centres distributing credit card sized information cards with important phone numbers and contact...
New bowel cancer test available at GP practices throughout NHS Tayside News
4th December, 2015
A pilot scheme to enhance the detection of bowel cancer has been launched today by Health Secretary Shona Robison in NHS Tayside.The pilot, funded through the Scottish Government’s £39 million Detect Cancer Early programme will make a new type of test available to patients who present at their GP practice with bowel symptoms and who may have underlying bowel cancer or serious bowel dis...
GP funding disadvantages patients in deprived areas News
1st December, 2015
General Practice funding systems in Scotland are “part of the problem” of health inequality, and do not match clinical need in deprived areas where multi-morbidity is highest. A new study, carried out by researchers at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Health and Wellbeing and the University of Dundee, has found that while GPs in more deprived areas have more patients who...
