Researchers and trainees will be representing the SPCR at the NAPCRG annual meeting in New York and those whose publications were chosen as NAPCRG 'PEARLS' earlier this year will be presented with their awards at the prestigious international event.
The SPCR would like to congratulate members of the School, based in the Nuffield Department for Primary Care Health Sciences, following the 2014 Recognition of Distinction Awards and the Medical Sciences Division gathered field award at the University of Oxford.
Doctoral student Caroline Vass from the University of Manchester won the Lee Lusted Award in the Preference Assessment category for her poster entitled: \"Investigating the Framing of Risk Attributes in a Discrete Choice Experiment: An Application of Eye-Tracking and Think Aloud\" at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making conference in Miami.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a search filter in MEDLINE (OvidSP) to assist healthcare professionals to promptly identify research studies relevant to particular areas in primary care. The findings have recently been published in Family Practice.
Recent SPCR funded research published by the PRO Research Group, University of Birmingham, highlights a worrying lack of consistency in the design of trials that include PROs and potential research waste.
We know that friends and relatives have the potential to play a really valuable role in the lives of domestic violence survivors; research has shown that positive informal support can buffer against negative impacts on survivors' health, well-being and quality of life and can even be protective against future abuse.
Heart attacks and strokes occur more commonly in the morning hours. The reason for this is unknown but some researchers have suggested that the increased risk of heart attack and stroke may be caused by a much greater than normal rise in blood pressure just after waking \u2013 \u2018An exaggerated morning blood pressure surge\u2019.
Since the publication of the PINCER trial in The Lancet, researchers at the University of Nottingham in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Manchester, have secured further external funding to refine aspects of the PINCER intervention and increase the feasibility of large-scale rollout.
The focus of the 'From Evidence to Practice: Implementing change in Primary Care' workshop at the King's Fund in London on 9 October, was to discuss the challenges within primary care of how to close the gap between evidence and practice.\r\n
Every day almost one million people, in England alone, have a consultation in General Practice. Yet we know surprisingly little about what actually happens during those consultations, or their consequences.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research Paper of the Year in the Primary Care, Public Health, Service Delivery and Musculoskeletal category, was awarded to researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Keele and Southampton this year. Their paper 'Implementation of self management support for long term conditions in routine primary care settings: cluster randomised controlled trial' was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) earlier this year and the award presented to Anne Kennedy at the RCGP Annual Conference on 2 October.
The setting for the SPCR showcase on 26 September was the magnificent new Maths Institute in Oxford and the photographs taken during the event capture a range of activities from the welcome and keynote address , parallel orals, plenaries and the panel discussion.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford, Nottingham and Southampton have made great progress on the Oral Steroids for Acute Cough (OSAC) trial.
SPCR trainees from around the country arrived for a day of lectures, poster presentations and socialising at the beautiful St Anne's College, Oxford, on 25 September.
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh's keynote address on the 'pathways to impact' and the importance of making evidence readily available to support change inspired a packed lecture theatre in Oxford on 26 September at the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research (NIHR SPCR) showcase. The event focussed on 'Promoting excellence and impact' and presentations drew on the work of researchers and trainees from the eight member departments, highlighting the wide range of primary care topics and disciplines embodied by the School.
With a great line up of speakers at the second SPCR showcase in Oxford next week, the School hopes to highlight excellence and impact across the full range of primary care research funded by the School.
SPCR doctoral fellow Grace Moran (University of Birmingham) won the 'First time Presenter' award at the Australian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) Conference in Canberra for the discussion of her systematic review. In her presentation, she discussed whether, despite being defined by short-lasting symptoms, transient ischaemic attack (YIA) and minor stroke, patients experience ongoing fatigue, psychological or cognitive impairment.
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