Sunderland graduate and dementia campaigner, Emma Boxer, has landed her dream job as a hospital pharmacist
The 23-year-old began her new role this week as a lead pharmacist at City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust outpatients’ department, at a time when health workers across the UK are under severe pressures...
A University of Sunderland, bespoke-built ambulance used to train the paramedics of tomorrow is being used to help save lives today
The ambulance was commissioned and built in Europe to help paramedic students get a flavour of life on the frontline.
The University has now loaned said ambulance, along with a...
Sunderland Uni’s Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing is stepping up its support with essential equipment to help in the fight against the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus.
More tests for the Wu-Flu could be done every day on patients’ samples after the University supplied South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with...
BBC Radio Tees has released The Self-Isolation Podcast. Hosted twice a week by north-eastern BBC journalist Adam Clarkson and local actress Jess Daley, the podcast is full of your self-isolation life hacks, professional advice and light relief to help you through this challenging time.
Now live on BBC Sounds, episode...
From this week, forty heroic University of Sunderland nurses will be taking up jobs in hospitals across the North East
The group this week completed their three-year Adult Nursing programme at the University and immediately began working on the front-line in the fight against the Cosmopolitan Flu, COVID-19.
Gill Maw, Team...
Freemasons are inviting the whole country to toast ‘absent friends, and those working on the frontline in the NHS’ at 9pm tonight
Freemasons are calling for the whole community to ensure no one feels alone, even if they are physically self-isolating, to be remembered in a toast at 9pm tonight.
The...
Open Access train operator Grand Central has announced it will offer refunds on all Advance Purchase tickets bought before Monday 23 March for travel after Monday 23 March.
This is in line with franchised train companies. Grand Central will offer a full refund, without administration charge, on Advance Purchase (AP)...
Rev Chris Howson, Chaplain at the University of Sunderland and Anglican Priest at Sunderland Minister offers some words of comfort.
"These are extraordinary times. It is quite understandable that our staff and students are anxious and concerned about the impact the virus will have on people and on our futures.
All...
The University of Sunderland is slated to host the discussion show, Any Questions?, on BBC Radio 4 for the first time since before radios were invented.
The panel show will broadcast from the University on Friday, February 28, 2020, and a limited number of tickets are available now to the...
A University of Sunderland art student feared he had lost months of work after he left his design portfolio on a Metro.
David Byrne was due to hand in his final year project just days after he realised his prized work had gone missing.
But thanks to vigilant Metro staff, the...
