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Nursing with Leadership Dual Field (Mental Health and Children's Nursing) MSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/nursing-msci-child/2026
Effective and efficient leadership is crucial to the smooth running of children’s healthcare. On this four-year degree, alongside gaining core paediatric nursing skills and experience, you’ll discover what it takes to be a clinical and professional leader within the profession.
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United Nations Day 2024: United for climate action
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/un-day
Professor Heiko Balzter, Director of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester, reflects on the United Nations’ (UN) critical role in fighting climate change.
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Study recommends SGLT2 inhibitors for people with diabetic foot disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/diabetic-foot-ulcers-leicester
People with a history of foot ulcers or amputations should be prescribed SGLT2 inhibitors, according to new research led by a team from the University of Leicester
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Clinics will provide support to budding innovators
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/innovation-clinics
Budding entrepreneurs can get advice on how to bring their products to life thanks to a new partnership with the University of Leicester.
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Leicester researcher wins DHSC funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/patrickhighton
The ground-breaking efforts of a researcher from the University of Leicester in the field of testing non-adherence to antihypertensive medication have played a pivotal role in securing substantial funding support.
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Diversity education in medical schools to be addressed at national conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/diversity-education-in-medical-schools-to-be-addressed-at-national-conference
A national conference is to address issues relating to diversity in medical education.
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Electronic frailty index will identify older people at risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/30-frailty-index
A collaborative study involving Professor Simon Conroy from our Department of Health Sciences has been awarded £550,000 from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme to develop the next version of the multi-award winning electronic frailty index (eFI).
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Creating tomorrow’s cardiovascular research leaders
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/tomorrows-cardio
The University of Leicester has been awarded more than one and a half million pounds by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to fund a 4-year PhD Programme to train the next generation of research leaders in cardiovascular science.
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Genetics study to improve prediction of heart disease recruits 20000th participant
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/genetics-study-to-improve-prediction-of-heart-disease-recruits-20-000th-participant
A team of researchers from our University and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (LCBRU) in conjunction with colleagues from Primary Care and Leicester and Leicestershire CCGs have recruited their 20,000th participant to a landmark genetics study.
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SAPPHIRE
https://le.ac.uk/sapphire
Our research encompasses understanding problems in clinical and healthcare quality and safety, informing the design of interventions that could help, and conducting process evaluations of improvement programmes and interventions.