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Bringing research and innovation together to tackle health inequalities in our communities

NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Wessex and the Wessex Academic Health Sciences Network (AHSN) brought more than 170 people...

Long Covid can impact fatigue and quality of life worse than some cancers

Fatigue is the symptom that most significantly impacts the daily lives of long Covid patients, and can affect quality of life more than...

Welcome to our 6th group of interns and researchers

ARC Wessex has welcomed nine new interns to meet the teams that will help support them through the next 6 months. Professor James...

What’s behind burnout and exhaustion in nursing staff?

A research survey of almost nine-hundred nursing staff has found that long hours combined with poor staffing and little choice in working...

Countrywide ARC Dementia research teams start work

The National DEM-COMM cohort of almost 50 dementia research fellows came to the opening of the programme at the University of Southampton...

Caring for carers. How a new approach centres on nurse welfare in the shadow of covid-19 pressures

Researchers based in Southampton have created a support programme for nursing teams that improves the welfare of staff and helps them...

New study looks at impact of cost-of-living crisis on people’s mental health

Researchers at the University of Southampton have started work to examine the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on mental health of...

Could do better: Research rates Government food placement legislation

Researchers from Southampton interviewed more than 100 stakeholders to review Government legislation restricting the promotion of...

ARC Wessex support leads to more funding aimed at tackling NHS Winter pressures

Two research projects have been awarded funding to address two of the biggest challenges facing NHS hospitals in the South by Health Data...

How can we improve nurses’ lives? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

BLOG by: Jane Ball1 & Holly Blake2 on behalf of the ICON Study Team3 1Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy, University of Southampton &...

Growing social care research

ARC Wessex and CRN Wessex have pulled together to expand research into social care. Four researchers have been funded to work with local...

BLOG: Life has no respect for GANTT charts - by Sandra Bartolomeu Pires

OK, I cheated. I was supposed to write yearly so that you could keep track of my PhD journey, but I kept telling myself I would only...

Try research: How Dr Zoe came off the field of play and into the field of research

People come into health research in many ways. In Dr Zoe Saynor's case it was the love of sport and health and exercise science. A former...

New map shows regions in the UK with a higher risk of food insecurity

A new index developed by researchers at the University of Southampton and NIHR ARC Wessex* reveals neighbourhoods in the north of England...

ARTICLE: Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again?

Professor Peter Griffiths and Dr Chiara Dall'Ora who lead on Workforce and Health Systems at ARC Wessex look at nursing and patient...

ARC Intern Rachael publishes findings into inequality in Mental Health

ARC Wessex Intern Rachael Middle is a Speech and Language Therapist by background but is currently in a quality improvement role in...

New research project to explore whether digital health coaching can support people with frailty.

New research project to explore whether digital health coaching can support people with frailty. The DONOR project (Digital cOachiNg fOr...

How do older people feel about using technology?

A recent project has shown that older people with frailty still prefer the human touch when it comes to health and care. A team from NIHR...