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New SPCR collaborative projects

Research

The School is pleased to announce that, after a very competitive round of applications and external review, the following projects successfully received funding for collaborative research in Funding Round 14. The School awarded £4,643,577 in total for the cross-departmental studies.

Title
Principal Investigator
Amount awarded
Microbiology of throat swabs collected when patients present to primary care with acute cough Kyle Knox (Oxford, Southampton, Bristol)  £91,875
Quantifying variation in UK primary care test use: A 15 year retrospective analysis of temporal and geographical variation in test use. Jack O'Sullivan (Oxford, Southampton, Bristol) £92,204
Evaluating the impact of the 2011 NICE Hypertension Guideline on the Management of Hypertension in Primary Care and Subsequent Outcomes Richard McManus (Oxford, Cambridge, UCL) £127,344
Establishing research priorities to improve the management of patients with advanced heart failure using the James Lind Alliance method. Rachel Johnson (Bristol, Oxford, Cambridge) £76,591
Expectation Management for Patients in Primary Care: Developing and Feasibility Testing a New Digital Intervention for Practitioners Hazel Everitt (Southampton, Oxford, Keele) £394,262
The TEST (Trial of Eczema allergy Screening Tests) Study: feasibility randomised controlled trial with economic scoping and nested qualitative study Matt Ridd (Bristol, Southampton, Nottingham £438,692
D-Mannose to prevent Recurrent UTI: a double blind randomised placebo controlled trial Gail Hayward (Oxford, Bristol, Southampton) £875,797
Optimising Management of Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Primary Care (Optimise-HFpEF) Christi Deaton (Cambridge, Oxford, Keele, Manchester)  £633,845
Improving the evidence-base for primary care: NIHR Evidence Synthesis working group Carl Heneghan (Oxford, Bristol, Nottingham, Keele, Cambridge, Southampton, UCL, Newcastle, Manchester) £1,912,967

NIHR Dissemination Centre publications

Blood pressure self-monitoring works best when people are well-supported

NIHR Highlight: Childhood Eczema

Screen reminders for GPs did not improve anticoagulation prescribing in atrial fibrillation

A blood test threshold for diagnosing heart failure in general practice is reviewed

Collaborative care can be moderately effective at treating depression regardless of physical health status 

Options in the care of people with depression 

Better beginnings themed review 

Transient ischaemic attacks may have greater long-term impact than previously thought 

Young children from deprived areas are more at risk of serious burns and scalds 

“Case management” can prevent people with heart failure being admitted again

NIHR Journals Library

Completed & published projects

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