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    • Summer school

    Advanced Practice Summer School Models of Care with APNs - Leadership, Outcomes and Sustainability

    From individual roles to the model of care - The Advanced Practice Summer School empowers advanced practitioners and nurse managers to explore their clinical leadership skills, fostering the development of...

    24.06.2025 until 27.06.2025 – BFH, Schwarztorstrasse 48, 3007 Bern

    • Story

    Addressing the quality of life in dementia

    28.11.2024 Can people with dementia have a good quality of life? A study conducted by three BFH researchers aims to get to the bottom of this question.

    • Story

    Homeless seniors: life in the shadows

    11.11.2024 The lives of older homeless adults, some without shelter for years, are poorly documented. With its research project, BFH aims to lay the foundations for more targeted support for homeless seniors.

    • Story

    «EFAS alone is not a magic bullet»

    04.10.2024 On 24 November 2024, the Swiss population will vote on the amendment to the Federal Health Insurance Act (KVG). The objective of this law is the uniform financing of outpatient and inpatient services in...

    • News

    FMH Innovation Qualité: SERO wins first place

    27.05.2024 An app developed in collaboration with BFH by Luzerner Psychiatrie AG for its project “SERO – Suicide Prevention Uniformly Regionally Organised” was awarded the “Innovation Qualité” award in the category...

    • Story

    “Medicine increases life expectancy”

    18.03.2024 People in Switzerland are taking more and more medication. For Niklaus Meier, health economist at BFH, this is not a bad sign. Medicine is partly responsible for the fact that our life expectancy is increasing.

    • Story

    Digitalisation in care: pros and cons

    20.12.2023 Digitalisation is on everyone’s lips. More and more data, sensors, applications and interfaces are being used, and healthcare is no exception. Friederike J.S. Thilo carries research in this field and...

    • News

    Sensors in healthcare and what they mean for us

    11.09.2023 Modern technologies are revolutionising our health care system. In a four-part series, the authors of SocietyByte – the science magazine of Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) – analyse what...

    • News

    BFH expertise helps shape the future of nutrition

    24.08.2023 The motto chosen for “The Spirit of Bern” 2023 conference was “Nutrition: problems, trends and innovations”. The event was attended by nutrition expert and BFH lecturer Prof. Dr David Fäh and various...

    • News

    Feminist Strike: BFH organises ‘living books’ on care work

    06.06.2023 Bern University of Applied Sciences is setting up a ‘Living Library’ on the topic of care work at this year’s Feminist Strike on the Bundesplatz in Bern. People who are themselves dependent on care work will...

    • Press Release

    Klazine van der Horst appointed Head of the School of Health Professions

    28.03.2023 The University Board of Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH has elected Klazine van der Horst as the new Head of the School of Health Professions. She will assume her new role on 1 May 2023, replacing...

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    Solidarity with Ukraine

    08.03.2022 The Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH is deeply concerned about the current developments in Ukraine. The university offers support for students and researchers.

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