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BJGP top ten most read articles
28 August 2018
A number of School researchers and trainees were included as authors of the BJGP top ten publications of 2018, announced this week, including Dr Brian McMillan (University of Manchester's Centre for Primary Care).
NIHR in the media on NHS70
25 July 2018
Thursday 5th July was a big day for the NHS and everyone working in hospital trusts, and also for the NIHR and our I Am Research campaign.
Moving forward
10 July 2018
Three SPCR case studies have provided evidence in the latest of the NIHR Dissemination Centre's themed reviews which discusses physiotherapy for musculoskeletal heath and wellbeing.
The NHS turns 70
5 July 2018
The Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol celebrated the many contributions made to primary care research by thanking the patients, doctors, public, practice staff, pharmicists and partners with these great little Adobe Sparks media pages. Click on the image below to view.
The risks and benefits of modern anticoagulant drugs
5 July 2018
The School for Primary Care Research has funded a study using anonymised patient data to look at the risks and benefits of modern anticoagulant drugs (Apixaban, Rivaroxaban and Dabigatran).
The NHS at 70: A GP's account of the start of the NHS
26 June 2018
Dr John Fry, one of the founding members of the RCGP, published a report for the Nuffield Trust in 1988, in which he describes what it was like to be a GP as the NHS was founded.
GP as a career?
25 June 2018
Dr John Benson and Cambridge medical students explain why they wouldn’t choose anything else.
Patients to set agenda for heart failure research
14 June 2018
People with advanced heart failure, their carers, families and friends are being asked to help set the priorities for future research into the condition.
SAPC 2018
8 June 2018
SAPC ASM is hosted by Queen Mary University from 10-12 July this year and promises to provide an extremely busy three days highlighting the latest research and education in academic primary care at London's Barbican Centre.
New study to help improve antibiotic prescribing in out-of-hours services
4 June 2018
A multidisciplinary research team from the Universities of Southampton, Bristol, University College London and University of Oxford have been funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research to undertake a 2.5 year study to explore antibiotic prescribing out of hours.
Local real-time surveillance of infectious disease could improve antibiotic prescribing
4 June 2018
Antimicrobial resistance is a significant threat to public health. Researchers from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care and NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Evaluation of Interventions have found promising evidence that local real-time surveillance of infectious disease, such as flu, could help GPs make better diagnostic and treatment decisions, reducing the amount of unnecessary antibiotic prescribing.
RCGP recognises achievements in general practice
21 May 2018
Professors Elaine Hay and Joanne Protheroe, from Keele University, and Peter Bower from the University of Manchester were presented with awards in recognition of their achievements in general practice at the RCGP's spring general meeting on 11 May.
NHS70 Excellence in primary care award - regional winners
21 May 2018
Professor Tony Avery and the research team at the University of Nottingham were chosen as the regional winners in the The Excellence in Primary Care Award category of the NHS70 Parliamentary Awards. They are part of the shortlist for the national award.
New £3m research investigates screening that could prevent one in ten strokes
16 May 2018
A new £3m research programme funded by an National Institute for Health Research Programme Grant for Applied Research (PGfAR) will investigate screening to detect undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, a heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes.