Doctors and nurses from Thailand learn about cardiac care innovations
Friday 15 September 2017
Doctors and nurses from Thailand visited the University of Salford to learn about innovations in the care of patients with heart disease.
The group, from
hospitals and educational institutions across the South East Asian country,
spent two weeks at the University to learn about how medics in the UK treat,
diagnose and prevent the killer disease.
Members of the
delegation have been given tours of teaching facilities such as the
University’s state of the art nursing simulation suite, which features rooms
built to look exactly like hospital wards, containing high tech electronic
manikins operated by technicians, to see how nursing students use simulation to
gain experience of responding to cardiac arrests and other scenarios.
They also
visited the Central Manchester Heart Centre where they were able to meet
practitioners working in the UK and see for themselves some of the more
advanced treatments available for patients.
The module,
facilitated by Adult Nursing Lecturer Karen Higginbotham and Advanced Practitioner
and Lecturer Paul Sinnott, also brought together clinical experts from NHS
trusts across Greater Manchester.
The visit,
organised with Thailand’s Ministry Of Public Health, followed a recent
delegation of public health directors from colleges across the country, who
came to find out how the University of Salford works with the NHS to make sure
its nursing and public health education adapts in response to changes in the
health sector.
Margaret Rowe,
Dean of the University’s School of Health And Society, met senior members of
the Ministry during a University visit to South East Asia earlier this year.
She said:
“Heart disease is one of the biggest killers in the North West, and the
University of Salford is at the heart of ambitious Devo Manc plans to make the
region healthier by improving the way we treat these conditions.
“As one of the
largest trainers of nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the
north of England, we have close links with specialists working at the forefront
of the fight against heart disease.
“This visit is
a great opportunity to explain some of the innovative work being done here and
pass on this expertise to medics in Thailand – a country in which heart disease
is a leading cause of death.”
Thai cardiology
specialist Dr Sittiluck Wongwantanee, part of the delegation, said: “This
programme was a great opportunity for us as a Thailand Ministry to improve
cardiac care for the future.”
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