18 September 2017
\n \n \n \nA collaboration of nine member departments of the NIHR School of Primary Care Research has been awarded \u00a31.8 million to undertake, develop the methods, and build capacity in systematic reviews covering priority areas in primary care.
\n \n\n \n \n23 June 2017
\n \n \n \nAlzheimer\u2019s Society has committed almost \u00a31.7m to Newcastle University, as part of its biggest single investment in dementia care research.
\n \n\n \n \n18 April 2017
\n \n \n \nThere is not enough evidence to recommend steroids as a treatment for symptoms of sore throat in patients seeing their GP according to researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and Bristol. In a trial funded by the National Institute of Health Research School for Primary Care Research.
\n \n\n \n \n10 April 2017
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR encourages you to \u201cget digital\u201d with the launch of the Let\u2019s Get Digital Competition on 6 April 2017. The competition is designed to recognise those people involved in NIHR research using video, photography, websites, infographics and online communities to promote research.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2017
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Dissemination Centre launched the 'Roads to Recovery: Organisation and Quality of Stroke Services' themed review in Manchester on 4 April.
\n \n\n \n \n21 March 2017
\n \n \n \nRuth Riley (Bristol) and Marta Buszewicz (UCL) presented the results of a School funded study at a workshop for GP tutors who teach UCL Medical School undergraduates on 17 March.
\n \n\n \n \n14 March 2017
\n \n \n \nThe SPCR funded CANDID (Cancer Diagnosis Decision Rules) study is seeing positive results around the country. The School's collaborative study investigates which of the symptoms and examination results received by clinicians are the most effective in predicting lung or colon cancer.
\n \n\n \n \n14 March 2017
\n \n \n \nParticipation in gambling is increasing in the UK, with surveys indicating that around 59% of British adults reported gambling activities in 2010, up 7% from three years earlier.
\n \n\n \n \n10 March 2017
\n \n \n \nProfessor Christian Mallen, Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Primary Care and Health Sciences at Keele University, has been awarded Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health through distinction, in recognition of his clinical and academic contribution to public health.
\n \n\n \n \n7 March 2017
\n \n \n \nThis year International Women's Day is being celebrated under the banner of 'Be bold for change'. Universities around the country are taking part in celebrations to promote the delivery of equality for women and to forge a better working world with gender inclusivity.
\n \n\n \n \n13 February 2017
\n \n \n \nThe University of Southampton's Professor Tony Kendrick spoke to BBC Five about his six year study on the long term use of antidepressants.
\n \n\n \n \n9 February 2017
\n \n \n \nOne million patients have now taken part in research through their local GP practice in England, through the NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN). The CRN are celebrating this achievement by thanking all the participants across the 56% of local GP practices involved in research.
\n \n\n \n \n6 February 2017
\n \n \n \nAshley Bryce communicated her research on anti-microbial resistance in children with urinary tract infections to Professor Chris Whitty, the Department of Health's Chief Scientific Adviser, at the University of Bristol, on 23 January.
\n \n\n \n \n17 January 2017
\n \n \n \nFollowing the publication of an editorial in the BMJ in June 2016, researcher Dr Joanna Spiers highlights her experiences of the School funded research in a blog. She emphasises that GPs are not invulnerable but human and feel the pressures and strains of their demanding work life.
\n \n\n \n \n8 December 2016
\n \n \n \nThe NIHR Trainees Co-ordinating Centre held it's 10th Annual NIHR Trainee Meeting 'Research leaders of the future' on 6-7 December, where SPCR GPCP trainee Dr Shoba Poduval won Best Poster Prize.
\n \n\n \n \n30 November 2016
\n \n \n \nThe School celebrated ten years of primary care research at the Wellcome Collection on 22 November. Delegates from around the country were welcomed with a programme of presentations and discussions about past, present and future research impact. The showcase highlighted the increased evidence base provided by the School to date as well as research that promises to add a lot more to this in the future.
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2016
\n \n \n \nA publication by School members at the University of Manchester was awarded the prestigious Research Paper of the Year Award (2015) by the RCGP in London on 28 September 2016.
\n \n\n \n \n21 September 2016
\n \n \n \nA new online resource has been launched to help patients with several long term conditions to not only self-manage their treatment approaches across multiple conditions but to help influence the tailored nature of treatment required by NICE in the new guidelines.
\n \n\n \n \n12 September 2016
\n \n \n \nProfessor Kath Checkland, from the University of Manchester's Institute of Population Health, met with a select committee in Parliament on 6 September to provide insight on the long-term sustainability of the NHS.
\n \n\n \n \n15 August 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Juliet Usher-Smith, Clinical Lecturer at the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge has been awarded a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Prevention Fellowship of almost \u00a3450k for her research entitled 'Developing a very brief intervention to promote behaviour change for cancer prevention in primary care.'
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