MVS Faculty Support Staff Conference 26th September 2007 Len Hall Dean of Medical & Veterinary Sciences

1. MVS Faculty Support Staff Conference 26th September 2007 Len Hall Dean of Medical & Veterinary Sciences

2. Background to the Faculty • Teaching & Learning • Research • Capital Investment • Financial Status

3. University Income - 2006/07 3,195 1,227 2,153 Total: £272.6M 3,522 2,025 3,473

4. University Expenditure - 2006/07 Total: £272.6M

5. MVS Departmental Budget Data - 2006/07

6. MVS Departmental Budget Data - 2006/07

7. School of Medical Sciences

8. School of Clinical Veterinary Science Langford House View from the Tower

9. Teaching & Learning

10. Teaching & Learning • In the 2005 National Student Survey, Bristol was voted as having the best Veterinary School in the UK. • In the 2006 National Student Survey, Bristol was voted as having the best Medical Sciences Teaching in the UK.

11. Priorities for Teaching and Learning • Increasing integration of the facilities provided by the Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences CETL into our BSc Honours and ‘professional’ programmes • Increase in number and funding level of Postgraduate Research (PhD) students • Redevelopment of Medical Sciences Library space • - ‘LifeZone’ - a Life Sciences Learning Zone

12. A purpose-built Clinical Anatomy Suite housing integrated work-stations and a large pathology display area for clinical anatomy teaching. Twolife-sized, computer-controlled, Human Patient Simulators(manikins)for physiology & pharmacology teaching. A web-based ‘Virtual Microscope’ that will enable students to access hundreds of digital images of our existing tissue sections both on- and off-campus for histology teaching. A Mobile Laboratory to facilitate outreach activities. AIMS CETL (Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning)

13. Will provide teaching facilities for: 1,500 Bristol undergraduates per year; including medical students, dental students, veterinary students and medical science students Outreach activities with local schools Postgraduate health professionals Students from other HEIs (e.g. medical and nursing students) AIMS CETL (Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning)

14. Clinical Anatomy Suite • Twelve custom-designed, integrated work- • stations giving students access to: • Models of anatomical structures • Donated human tissue • Pathological specimens • X-rays, CT scans, MRI images accessed via a touch-screen monitor

15. Clinical Anatomy Suite - an integrated palette of resources

16. Human Patient Simulator Waveform traces (ECG; Blood pressure; O2 and CO2 content of blood) Audible heart beat; breathing Pupil reflexes Palpable pulses

17. Prefer Lectures PreferSimulator Prefer Practicals PreferSimulator Prefer Private Study PreferSimulator Student Feedback Data from 475 first year undergraduates (medical students, dental students, vet students and medical science students)

18. Virtual Microscope • Students can access the web-based image archive at any time and from anywhere in the world • Gives all students and staff access to exactly the same image • Split-screen facility enables comparison between images • Rare and fragile tissue can be digitally ‘archived’ Second year dental students using the virtual microscope

19. Mobile Laboratory

20. Severn Postgraduate School for Surgery Dillington House, Somerset Crypt School, Gloucester

21. Research

22. Major research themes within the Faculty include: • Cardiovascular Science • Professor Julian Paton (Physiology & Pharmacology) • Neuroscience • Professor David Nutt (Community-Based Medicine) • Cell Biology • Professor Pete Cullen (Biochemistry) & Professor Alastair Poole (Phys & Pharm) • Animal Welfare & Behaviour • Professor Christine Nicol (Clinical Veterinary Sciences) • Infection & Immunology • Professor Stuart Siddell (Cellular & Molecular Medicine) • Mechanistic & Structural Biochemistry • Professor Paula Booth (Biochemistry) • In each of these major thematic areas of research, grant income to this Faculty is currently about £2.5M to £3M p.a.

23. Cell Imaging Facility • Since its establishment in 1997, this Facility has established a reputation for being at the forefront of cutting-edge imaging technologies. • It is used by about 140 research groups from across the Faculties of Medical & Veterinary Sciences, Medicine & Dentistry, and Science. • It has just been awarded £1 million from the Wolfson Foundation and a further £350K from the MRC. • This, together with a £1 million investment from the University, will allow it to purchase state-of-the-art microscopes and imaging equipment, fundamental to much of the biomedical research carried out in Bristol.

24. Images taken by the Cell Imaging Facility are often published on the covers of prestigious journals:

25. Priorities for Research • Increase research volume and funding • Acquire more space for an expansion of some of our major research themes in Medical Sciences

26. Capital Investment

27. Capital Projects • Recently Completed Capital Projects • Facilities for Proteomics and Transgenics (SRIF-1) • Refurbishment of Labs for Functional Genomics (SRIF-2) • Small Animal Practice Building • Pearson Building & several Langford refurbishments • Refurbishment of Animal Facilities - H-floor (SRIF-2) • Medical Sciences Foyer • Ongoing Capital Projects • Animal Welfare Building • Redevelopment of Wyndhurst Farm • Enhancement of Cell Imaging Facility • Future, Approved Capital Projects • Equine Surgery Building • LifeZone - redevelopment of Medical School Library • Future, Planned Capital Projects • Langford Clinical Veterinary Services (LCVS) • Additional Laboratories for Medical Sciences

28. Small Animal Practice Small Animal Hospital

29. Laboratories Computer Suite Hodgkin Lecture Theatre

30. LifeZone “LifeZone will be an exemplar for a new style of library, more focussed on modern student and academic needs and reflecting significant changes in the nature of the information available to biomedical scientists. We intend that it will be a beacon, setting the standard for similar initiatives across all of our libraries.” • The project has been approved at a cost of £1.75 million, with £350K from the Wolfson Foundation and £1.4 million from the University. • The project will also provide high quality refreshment facilities for staff and students. • The work is planned to occur over the summer of 2008.

31. To provide the clinical caseload needed to teach veterinary undergraduates To provide the case material for clinical research To provide additional income for the School Langford Clinical Veterinary Services (LCVS)

32. Need for investment in facilities and equipment Difficulty in attracting & retaining highly qualified, experienced clinical academic staff Falling caseload due to increased competition (especially referral cases) Lack of commercial- or customer-focussed approach in running the clinics Potential threat to the referral clinics from emerging chains of first opinion practices Threats to the sustainability of our clinics

33. Establish Langford Clinics as a limited company wholly owned by the University Focus on running the clinics as a business within the framework of a robust Service Level Agreement to protect teaching and research Adopt a more commercial management approach in order to match competitors Provide a more client-focussed service Provideincentives, both vocational and financial, for clinical staff to come to Langford and stay Provideinvestment in clinical facilities, equipment and systems - thereby ensuring that we have the best facilities and services Create links to local first opinion practices to increase referrals, laboratory business and student placements University response to these threats

34. Financial Status

35. MVS Student Income 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 HEFCE Income £10.2M £11.7M £13.3M £14.1M £14.1M £14.3M £14.7M Fee Income £4.3M £4.5M £5.1M £6.5M £7.3M £8.4M £9.1M Total T income £14.5M £16.2M £18.4M £20.6M £21.4M £22.7M £23.8M % increase ----- 11.5% 14.4% 12.0% 3.9% 6.1% 4.8%

36. MVS Research QR and Indirect Income 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 HEFCE Research £6.2M £6.5M £7.3M £6.2M £6.3M £6.5M £6.3M Research Indirect £2.3M £2.6M £2.9M £3.5M £3.1M £4.2M £4.5M Charity ‘indirect’ ----- ----- ----- £1.9M £2.4M £2.4M £3.0M Services Rendered £0.67M £0.97M £1.0M £1.1M £1.3M £1.4M £1.5M Other Indirect £0.05M £0.07M £0.21M £0.08M £0.29M £0.27M £0.33M Total Indirect £9.2M £10.1M £11.4M £12.8M £13.4M £14.8M £15.6M % increase ----- 9.8% 12.9% 12.3% 4.7% 10.4% 5.4%

37. MVS Salary Costs(minus costs of Reward implementation) 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 Total Salaries £13.3M £14.2M £14.6M £14.9M £16.1M £16.6M £17.1M Annual Increase ----- 6.7% 3.1% 2.0% 8.1% 3.1% 3.0% % of Income (-direct) 56% 54% 49% 44% 46% 44% 43%