October 02, 2006
University in major collaboration to treat heart disease
The University of Sheffieldґs Centre for Stem Cell Biology (CSCB) and the Cardiovascular Research Unit (CVRU) have joined forces with Axordia Ltd and Lombard Medical Technologies PLC to develop a next generation of treatment for coronary artery disease.
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September 29, 2006
New critical care facility for Northern General Hospital
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has officially announced the go-ahead for a £21.3 million project to expand critical care facilities at the Northern General Hospital.
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Healthy Housing

The Healthy Housing programme will seek to build upon work of the previous three years, and embed many of the pilots and smaller initiatives more strongly into mainstream Housing policy.

Much of the work undertaken needs evaluating and monitoring. This did not occur last year as we chose to take full advantage of opportunity for further development of new services to be mainstreamed by Supporting People.
These services now need to be fully monitored and evaluated.

Work around single assessment and referral routes into Housing, including involvement in the Care Pathways is still ongoing and the Healthy Housing service will continue to work within these structures and ensure Housing Services participate in these

Work in localities with health professionals to ensure a health link into the assessment of the impact of policy changes to private sector grants provision.

The whole role of Health and Housing will be reviewed with the aim of considering the need for a Health and Housing team in Public and Private sector Housing, encompassing all Health functions and developing a single strategy for Health and Housing. This is not an easy task as many mainstream functions already overlap with other strategies. Therefore a review of current structures is required and the Healthy Housing workers will be instrumental in this review.

Healthy Housing Milestones 2003-4
Healthy Housing Milestones 2004-5
Healthy Housing Forward Plan
Healthy Housing Year End Report 2003-4
Healthy Housing Final Report

All documents are in pdf format - click on the pdf logos to view.

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Dorothy Dixon-Barrow Award

The key health and social care partner organisations in the Sheffield First For Health partnership are pleased to continue the process for the Dorothy Dixon-Barrow Award
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