Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Sofiya Abedali is a PhD candidate at Amsterdam University Medical Center with a background in sociology and anthropology. Her research focuses on how team dynamics, workplace culture, and organizational structures influence well-being in physician teams and extends to medical education, where she explores how feedback practices and language in resident evaluations influence perceptions of role […]
Dr Jo Butterworth previously shared news of securing aTeam Science Award | NIHR to support the Multiple Long-Term Conditions Cross-NIHR Collaboration | NIHR, bringing together an interdisciplinary team from across the UK to address important unanswered questions about care for people living with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). The workstream (involving researchers, clinicians, methodologists, public contributors […]
I am relatively new to the academic primary care world, being previously based in secondary care and wider multidisciplinary settings, so I was not sure what to expect from the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) South West conference. https://www.southampton.ac.uk/primarycare/news/events/2025/08/south-west-sapc-conference-2026.page After arriving in Southampton (academic poster tube in hand) and massively winning the hotel room […]
Prevention is no longer optional in primary care – it is essential. The NHS 10 Year Plan calls for three major shifts: Achieving these shifts requires more than policy ambition. It requires practical, scalable models that work in the reality of everyday general practice. Our research team, in collaboration with the Royal College of General […]
Image by Arek Socha from Pixaby “Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability” – Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Uncertainty is common when making decisions about healthcare. It is recommended that healthcare providers talk about this uncertainty with patients experiencing multiple long-term health conditions (MLTCs) so decisions about healthcare can be made together. However, there is currently a lack of guidance for doctors on how to talk about uncertainty with their patients. There […]
Dr Vincent Simpson and Dr Deepthi Lavu Are you a clinician who wants to change the world but is too busy or doesn’t know where to start? If the answer is yes, then we’ve got your back! Making healthcare more sustainable does not have to be hard. We are two full-time NHS doctors who for […]
The 10 Year Health Plan for England was published in July 2025, as part of the government’s mission ‘to build a health service fit for the future’. In the first of our collaborative blogs, members of the Primary Care Delivery theme at APEx reflect on aspects of the ‘3 radical shifts’ set out in the […]
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is about researchers and patients/public members working together in equal partnership to do research. PPI in health research is critical because it ensures that the research we do is relevant to and benefits those most impacted by the research. PPI for large programmes of work involving multiple studies […]
I recently had the chance to speak at the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) annual scientific meeting in Cardiff, a brilliant event that brings together researchers, clinicians, and academics from across the country. I was part of a workshop focusing on some of the important and significant challenges Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) face when […]