The Patient Safety Toolkit, developed, piloted and implemented by researchers across seven School for Primary Care Research departments, has been shortlisted for the 2016 Patient Safety Awards, in the 'Improving Safety in Primary Care' category.
Adding to a growing body of research into trials methodology across the School, a team of researchers from the University of Bristol will begin work on a new systematic review to map current methods for evaluating implementation fidelity in primary care trials, as well as the evidence for these methods.
Nathan Davies and Steve Iliffe have recently been awarded letter of the week in the BMJ for their discussion of how end on life care for people with dementia is different.
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.
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Keele and University College London have fed back early research findings to help shape the development of a NHS England commissioned service for GPs with mental health problems.
An analysis of the workload in primary care from 2007 to 2014, conducted by researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol, found that increases in average consultation rates rose by 13.5% over the seven year period.
It seems apt that the School is well represented in the NIHR's ninth round of Senior Investigator appointments this year, ten years after the establishment of the NIHR and the School in 2006.
Researchers have now completed recruitment to the Healthtalk module on multiple health conditions. In total, 39 people living across England and Wales were interviewed about their experiences. The interviews are now being analysed and the results will be disseminated via the Healthtalk web site.
School funded research, led by Professor Carol Coupland at the University of Nottingham and recently published in the BMJ, suggests that commonly used antidepressants, known as \u2018selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors\u2019 (SSRIs), are not associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular conditions, such as heart attacks and strokes in people aged below 65.
The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (TAG) are surveying researchers, health professionals and the public to identify the unanswered questions about the prevention and treatment of tobacco addiction.
In a recent study, researchers at the University of Southampton have explored the effects of the economic recession, NICE guidelines, and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) to find out how the management of depression has changed since 2006.
Funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, one key output of the One in a Million study led by a team at the University of Bristol has been to create an archive of high quality video recordings, plus survey and electronic patient records data with permissions in place for reuse by other bonafide researchers.
The VOICES study (ViOlence: Impact on Children Evidence Synthesis), hosted at the University of Bristol, is a NIHR School for Primary Care Research funded investigation to find out what the impact of exposure to domestic violence is on children and the implications for a primary care response.
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).
Following seedcorn funding from the School in 2015, Dr Luke Munford has successfully won a post-doctoral award from the MRC to research health and well-being in later life through measurement, predictions, and interventions.
CANcer, Diagnosis Decision rules (CANDID) was the first collaborative project within the School to involve all partner universities. The five year study, led by Paul Little from the University of Southampton, aims to use clinical information from 20,000 patients across England and Wales who visit their GP with possible symptoms of early lung or colon cancer.
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.
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