{"id":271249,"date":"2025-11-19T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271249\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:49:08","slug":"university-of-worcester-awarded-2-5m-grant-for-healthcare-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/271249\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Worcester awarded \u00a32.5m grant for healthcare study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The funding will enable the university to create new high-tech digitally enabled simulation rooms, including a specialist midwifery simulation suite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will also see the purchase of a decommissioned ambulance for training paramedics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two more highly sophisticated Anatomage tables are also set to be purchased, which show the students life-size 3D digital scans of real people who donated their bodies for science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">By increasing its simulation capacity, the university said it would be able to educate even more health professionals for the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Trickett, chief executive of NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire, said: &#8220;This is extremely positive news for our local health and care system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The University of Worcester already plays a vital role in developing the highly skilled and compassionate health professionals our communities rely on, and this latest funding award will further strengthen that pipeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The funding will enable the university to create new high-tech digitally enabled simulation rooms, including a specialist midwifery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-271249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}