For over 30 years, the Grampian Hospitals Carol Concert Committees have been hosting annual carol concerts in aid of CLIC Sargent, enabling children and young people affected by cancer to thrive, not just survive.
Now in their 33rd year, the concerts will take place 7:30pm on Wednesday 4th December at Elgin Town Hall, and 2:30pm on Sunday 8th December at the Aberdeen Music Hall.
Tickets are available from the Box Office : 01224 641122 and from Aberdeen Performing Arts.
Monday 1st July 6.00 – 7:30 pm
The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
‘Collaborative Projects on Healthcare – Japan & Aberdeen’
Free and open to all
This event is led by Dr Sundari Catherine Joseph, Aberdeen University, and will involve an origami making workshop where participants will be led through making items using coloured paper and newsprint. A short presentation will then introduce the collaborative working relationship between Japanese partners in Nagoya who work collaboratively with colleagues at Aberdeen University, and will highlight some key points from their projects and the cultural and educational exchanges they have enjoyed over the years.
Dr Sundari Catherine Joseph has worked in Aberdeen for many years in a career that has focused on healthcare education and research. She has linked with Japanese partners at Nagoya University for three projects relating educational and research exchange between Scotland and Japan. She is particularly interested in interprofessional education and collaborative working amongst healthcare professions. She is Vice Chair of the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) and received the Principal Fellow Award from the Higher Education Academy. She has presented her work at local, national and international conferences.
Dr Okazaki is a Japanese physician and his interests are focused on patients with diabetes and their distress. He also works as an educator in Nagoya University School of Medicine. Recently he has been implementing applied theatre in medical education.
Dr Suematsu is a Japanese diabetologist and educator for health care professions in Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine. Her personal interest is in international social-cultural differences and this brought her here to Scotland to develop collaborative research between Aberdeen, Scotland and Nagoya, Japan.
Dr Takahshi is a GP in Japan, and faculty member of Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. His interests are physician’s empathy within undergraduate educational programs to educate patients’ narratives for medical students.
Dr Hanya is a Japanese pharmacist and teaches Ph*rm*cy students about communication in Meijo University Faculty of Ph*rm*cy. Also, she trains simulated patients for education and promotes Interprofessional Education with three other medical universities.
Yui Wakabayashi is a university student major in medicine.
This event is programmed to coincide with the upcoming exhibition
Treasure, by Stacey Hunter, at The Suttie Arts Space
29th June – 22nd September 2019
Free and Open 24/7 to all
The sculpture in the photo is called Breathing and was created by the Japanese sculptor, Hideo Furuta. This piece was commissioned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 1992.
Among other works of public art, he designed Juxtaposition in Saltwell Park for Gateshead Council and the Adamson Square, Creetown with funding from the Scottish Arts Council.
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The topiary elephants outside the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital at Foresterhill braving the snow last week!
Students enjoy a picnic outside the Suttie Centre in the winter sunshine. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is in the background.
The NHS Grampian Archives comprise the records of hospitals and other health related institutions in the Grampian area from 1739, when the Infirmary at Aberdeen was founded, to the late 20th century.
Most of the records from the 18th and 19th centuries are of hospitals: general and specialist hospitals, cottage hospitals and asylums. These records contain information on the administration of the hospitals and about the people who were patients, staff and contributors to hospital funds. In addition there are records from the three local poorhouses which in 1948 became hospitals in the newly formed NHS.
Material from the 20th century includes both hospital collections and the records of a range of local health organisations such as the National Insurance Committees set up under the 1911 National Health Insurance Act. Also contained in the archives are records of local authority health departments which, prior to 1974, had responsibility for a range of healthcare services including prevention of epidemics, mother and child welfare, and school medical services.
The archive is housed in the Special Collections Centre, part of the Sir Duncan Rice Library in Old Aberdeen. If you have any enquiries or wish to consult the records please contact the archivist Miss Fiona R Watson (email grampian.archives@nhs.net, telephone 01224 274912).
The photographs show a nurse holding a child with rickets at the Sick Childrens Hospital, Aberdeen and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary when it was at Woolmanhill. Both are part of the George Washington Wilson Archive.
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The sculpture in front of Ashgrove House on the Foresterhill Campus is called Breathing and was created by the Japanese sculptor, Hideo Furuta. This piece was commissioned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in 1992.
Furuta was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1949 and studied art in Tokyo before spending a year as a stonemason when he learned to work granite, which became his chosen medium.
He came to Britain in 1985, working first in Wales before moving to Scotland after becoming the Edinburgh University artist-in-residence in 1989. He finally settled in Creetown in Galloway, and died there aged 57, in November 2007.
Among other works of public art, he designed Juxtaposition in Saltwell Park for Gateshead Council and the Adamson Square, Creetown with funding from the Scottish Arts Council.
Hideo Furuta’s obituary appeared in the Scotsman newspaper in December, 2007.
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We have been given this aerial photograph of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as it was in 1938 when the building were still surrounded by farms and fields.
The book Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: a history of the people’s hospital in the North East tells the story of the hospital from its origins in 18th century. It is available to borrow from the Medical Library.
For more interesting photos and information on early Aberdeen, visit the website Doric Columns.
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