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The Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (TCPHI), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin seeks to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow for the research collaboration with HSE Community Healthcare Dublin South, Kildare and West Wicklow Public Health Nursing services. Full details available at http://jobs.tcd.ie The close date is 12 noon (Irish Standard Time) on 31st January 2020. See the job description (Job ID: 034320) for further details. Any queries can be addressed to TCPHI@tcd.ie.

The Trinity Centre for Practice and Healthcare Innovation (TCPHI), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin seeks to appoint a post-doctoral Research Fellow in Health Economics to work on a part-time basis on the Critical Care Outreach project with Tallaght University Hospital (TUH). The close date is 12 noon (Irish Standard Time) on 21st January 2020. See the job description for further details. Any queries can be addressed to tcphi@tcd.ie.

Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), will host a Winter School on 4th - 5th December 2019. Leading experts will present at the two-day workshop and best research practice will be discussed. See link to Agenda with registration details for anyone who would like to develop their knowledge of and skills in conducting trials in the area of Digital Health.

Food for thought at the opening of the European Society of Cardiology Cardiovascular Disease Prevention which aims to explore strategies to better implement cardiac guidelines. Dr Gabrielle McKee from the School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin presented the work of the ESC prevention working group which has identified that still over 50% of high risk cardiac patients are not meeting lipid, hypertension or physical activity guidelines.

Dying in acute hospitals: voices of bereaved relatives a paper by Ó'Coimín, D., Prizeman, G., Korn, B., Donnelly, S. & Hynes, G., reports the views of bereaved relatives on the experience of care they and the person that died received during their last admission in two university adult acute tertiary hospitals. This research provides a powerful snapshot in time into what works well and what could be improved in end-of-life care in acute hospitals.