Developments -    Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust       

	Step into Health Science
St James's Hospital	www.porthosp.nhs.uk	November 2008
In a drive to increase the number of school children going onto further and higher education, Portsmouth Hospital Trust in partnership with Portsmouth EBP, held their 4th "Step into Healthscience" event at St James's Hospital, Southsea.  It was attended by over 150 year 8-11 pupils from eight schools, targeted by Aimhigher, in Portsmouth.  All pupils, taking science based subjects, were introduced to a variety of science based careers within the National Health Service.  PHT and Portsmouth EBP hold regular healthscience, events throughout the year.  The next major event will be in March 2009.

March 2008 - The images below show the ongoing developments at the Queen Alexandra Hospital.

HMS Warrior

Schools' Science Fair 2008 Over 1500 school children from the Portsmouth area were invited to HMS Warrior for an activities day in science.  The Y6 children moved between the ship's cannons and mess decks to discover science in the workplace and in their daily lives.  Portsmouth Hospital Trust sent along representatives from the healthscience part of its workforce, including members of staff from the Cardiac Investigations Unit.  Christine, a senior chief cardiac physiologist allowed the children, and their teachers, to practice basic life support, see how a pacemaker works and listen to their own heart beats.  The event was organised by Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Education Business Partnership Ltd.

St James Hospital

St James Hospital was the venue for another  event.  Various NHS departments were on hand to talk to Year 10 and Year 11 pupils that are taking health related subjects at school.  The Cardiac department from PHT were represented by the deputy head of the unit and a year 3 student cardiac physiologist.  The staff took the students on a virtual patient journey so they could discover how cardiac physiologists diagnose and treat patients with heart disease.