14 June 2016
\n \n \n \nProfessor Debbie Sharp, a member of the School since its inception ten years ago, has been awarded an OBE for services to primary care in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
\n \n\n \n \n10 June 2016
\n \n \n \nSPCR trainee Yumna Masood has been selected as the Faculty of Medicine's 2016 President's Doctoral Scholar at the University of Manchester.
\n \n\n \n \n9 June 2016
\n \n \n \nSPCR fellow Zarnie Khadjesari (2011-2014), has been awarded a King\u2019s Improvement Science (KIS) senior fellowship to start in June 2016 for a period of three years.
\n \n\n \n \n9 June 2016
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n25 May 2016
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Professor Elaine Hay who is one of eight awarded the Distinguished Member Award by the British Society for Rheumatology this year.
\n \n\n \n \n4 May 2016
\n \n \n \nAdding 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.
\n \n\n \n \n28 April 2016
\n \n \n \nDr Kamal Mahtani is this year's winner of the RCGP Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding New Researcher.
\n \n\n \n \n28 April 2016
\n \n \n \nNathan 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.
\n \n\n \n \n19 April 2016
\n \n \n \nThree 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.
\n \n\n \n \n18 April 2016
\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2016
\n \n \n \nDevolving health and social care decisions to local politicians and professionals adds further complexity to an already complex system.
\n \n\n \n \n4 April 2016
\n \n \n \nAn 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.
\n \n\n \n \n1 April 2016
\n \n \n \nIt 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.
\n \n\n \n \n30 March 2016
\n \n \n \nResearchers 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.
\n \n\n \n \n23 March 2016
\n \n \n \nSchool 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.
\n \n\n \n \n18 March 2016
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n15 March 2016
\n \n \n \nIn 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.
\n \n\n \n \n26 February 2016
\n \n \n \nFunded 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.
\n \n\n \n \n24 February 2016
\n \n \n \nThe 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.
\n \n\n \n \n12 February 2016
\n \n \n \nThe 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).
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