A great line up of SPCR research is scheduled at this year's SAPC ASM including results from over thirty SPCR funded studies. In addition to the plenary and poster presentations, and elevator pitches, School members will be chairing sessions, workshops and special interest groups.
Three NACRG Pearls have been awarded this year, for School funded work, by the Community Clinician Advisory Group (CCAG). They were selected amongst others as the top research studies presented at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting (2015) that will impact clinical practice.
The School for Primary Care Research has an allocated place each year on the TUTOR-PHC programme (Transdisciplinary Understanding and Training on Research - Primary Health Care).
Researchers from the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol have created a unique dataset of 300 GP/patient consultations that will soon be made available for research and educational purposes.
An intervention to encourage healthy weight gain during pregnancy is helping to fight obesity by supporting an initiative launched by the National Obesity Forum's campaign this week.
The University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit is delighted to invite you to join Sir Iain Chalmers at a presentation he will give on the contributions made by the James Lind Initiative to the understanding of key concepts for assessing claims about the effects of treatments..
On 24 and 25 November the NIHR Trainees Co-ordinating Centre (TCC) held its ninth Annual Trainee Meeting at the Queens Hotel, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The theme was 'Making a Difference - from evidence to impact' and brought together 247 enthusiastic delegates to represent all levels of trainee.
Researchers across four School departments have been involved in a project to explore the causes of the evidence to practice gap (2nd translational gap) for complex interventions in primary care and what strategies are effective for closing the gap. The project, led by Professor Elizabeth Murray (UCL) and Professor Bie Nio Ong (Keele), completed last year and the team were invited to present their findings to the NIHR Evaluations Trials and Studies (NETSCC).
Professor Christian Mallen, Professor Athula Sumathipala and Dr Toby Helliwell (NIHR SPCR GP Fellow) have been invited to the 2016 WONCA South Asia regional meeting to talk about conducting research in primary care, establishing research networks and developing academic careers.
The North American Primary Care Research Group's (NAPCRG) 43rd annual meeting is currently taking place in Cancun, Mexico where primary care researchers and trainees are gathering to present SPCR funded studies.
Thank you to all the presenters, chairs and trainees who made the event engaging, informative and inspiring. The meeting, guest lectures and dinner with Dame Sally provided a good opportunity to network and meet members of the School Board and Training Leads.
Grace Moran, who recently submitted her PhD at Birmingham University, will soon be presenting the findings of her School funded research at two international conferences.
Professor Dame Sally C.Davies spoke to invited guests and trainees about the significance of primary care research at a dinner to celebrate the School's renewal on 21 September. She illustrated research impact with examples from the School's contributions over the past nine years. The dinner was held at Somerville College, Oxford, after two guest lectures by Chris Ham (The King's Fund) and Graham Watt (Glasgow University).
After the successful launch of the Patient Hack Day in April 2014, PRIMER are inviting PPI partners, members of the public, researchers and charities to work together on research ideas, for another day of engagement and interaction.
The School is launching a photography competition to celebrate the School\u2019s renewal, and encourage submissions from trainees for informative, creative and engaging photographs.
School representation at this year's SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting in Oxford was impressive. From trainees in the early stages of their PhDs to senior researchers, the programme was littered with members delivering presentations, elevator pitches, chairing sessions and leading mini symposia.
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