A cohort of nine midwives has just been funded by the Burdett Trust and the University of Edinburgh, as part of Edinburgh Global Nursing Initiative’s IGNITE programme, which is directly addressing the skills shortage in Liberia by providing clinical obstetrics training to nurses and midwives working in the community.
A three-year Scotland-wide research study, funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, involving collaborators from across the UK was undertaken to identify the views and experiences of families of young adults with complex learning disabilities and Registered Nurses of the transition from child to adult health services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a renewed focus on digital health – defined as the process of using information technology, digital hardware and devices, software and the Cloud, and the collection of data to measure clinician interventions. Digital health can transform the way we deliver patient care: making it safer, leading to better patient outcomes and improving efficiency in the way health services are planned and delivered.
There has been little research data on the impact of COVID-19 critical illness on people’s physical and psychological wellbeing. With funding from the Burdett Trust, Dr Suzanne Bench and her team at the London South Bank University aims to improve the health outcomes and experiences of COVID-19 survivors and their families.
With funding from Burdett Trust, Birmingham and Solihull Tuberculosis (TB) Service has been able to carry out weekly clinics for new migrants aged 35-65 years of age, raise awareness of Latent TB Infection, challenge poor compliance and ensure that those who tested positive have been provided with the appropriate treatment.
June 2021 marks a new beginning for the Nightingale Challenge as it becomes the “Nursing Now Challenge”, under the continued leadership of Professor Lisa Bayliss-Pratt at Coventry University, in partnership with Burdett.
In the midst of a pandemic, nursing for people facing the end of life has never had a more prominent place. With funding from the Burdett Trust, St Christopher’s Hospice has created a model for end-of-life care that reflects a contemporary experience of dying.
Street outreach is an important element of homeless healthcare and is provided by many specialist services, but there has been no guidance on how to deliver it. In partnership with the LNNM and with funding from the Burdett Trust, The Homeless Health Service has developed national ‘Guidelines for health related street outreach to people experiencing homelessness’.