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Brendan McGrath, a consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine at Wythenshawe Hospital, has been promoted to Honorary Chair at the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre MAHSC. This was based primarily on Prof McGrath's work with MACC improving the...

Innovation leads to new PPE respirator to keep healthcare workers safe during the COVID-19 pandemicThe University of Manchester, in collaboration with staff in the Intensive Care Unit of Wythenshawe Hospital and consultancy Designing Science Ltd, has developed the...

Professor Paul Dark has been appointed as Deputy Medical Director of the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre. In this important national leadership role, he will work with the wider NIHR, higher education institutes and...

Researchers and clinicians from the MACC team have been working on a new tracheostomy ward round game which launched in October 2021. The innovative new learning platform has been developed in partnership with patients and clinical staff from the UK National...

Sarah Wallace OBE is an internationally renowned Speech & Language Therapist best known for her pioneering work with critically ill patients. Sarah has acted as mentor, teacher and trainer for many staff locally, nationally and internationally, and she works...

MACC researcher Dr Tim Felton, Honorary Consultant in Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine at Wythenshawe Hospital, is one of the key authors of the recently published RECOVERY trial paper which identified the steroid dexamethasone as a critical weapon in the fight...

The Wythenshawe MACC team have been working with the University of Manchester to contribute to the British Science Week in March 2021. The Biodiscovery section charts the development of the Bubble PAPR during lockdown - a collaboration between front line hospital...

Manchester Academic Critical Care Research team win two prestigious national awards!THE Manchester Academic Critical Care (MACC) research group based within the DIIRM at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) have won two national awards in October 2020,...

Coronavirus: 'Bubble' PPE tested by Wythenshawe medicsDoctors and nurses in Wythenshawe Hospital's intensive care unit have been testing a new form of "bubble" PPE they helped to design.Consultant Brendan McGrath said the idea had been to produce something which was...

We're very proud to see @MFTnhs research team and@WythenshaweHosp Intensive Care Consultant, Dr Brendan McGrath, launching the@NIHRresearch#YourPathInResearch campaign. "I always thought that research was something that somebody else does, but increasingly I wanted to...