Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
The STANDD study is funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (FR8). It is led by Dr Jane Masoli and Associate Professor James Sheppard and brings together a vibrant team of researchers from the Universities of Exeter, Oxford and Bristol, and public advisors from Devon and Somerset. STANDD aims to understand more about […]
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your research and/or career to this point? Benjamin Atta is a Health data scientist with a background in Mathematics, and Statistics. Prior to joining the University of Exeter in 2023, Benjamin worked as a research fellow at the Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, where […]
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death worldwide. Cardiac rehabilitation aims to restore people with heart disease to health, through exercise, education and psychological support. Traditionally, centre-based cardiac rehabilitation programmes (typically based at hospital clinics, gyms or community centres) are offered to patients after cardiac events (such as heart attacks) or surgery to […]
Prof Philip Evans January 2024 As most of you will be aware I have been researching GP continuity for many years alongside Sir Denis Pereira Gray and Dr Kate Sidaway Lee in St Leonards Research Practice. It is a few years since my last APEx blog on this (“throwing out the baby with the bathwater”), […]
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and research and/or career to this point? I am a clinical academic physiotherapist specialising in the rehabilitation of older people. I’ve been based in Exeter since I was a PhD student and now, I’m Professor of Ageing and Rehabilitation. In 2017 I was made an MBE in […]
Rural primary care practices in England function as the backbone of healthcare service provision for individuals living in rural and remote communities. However, these practices face an enduring challenge – the recruitment and retention of staff. While much attention has been paid to the shortage of doctors in rural areas, we must also shine a […]
Supporting people in accessing and using NHS online services – digital facilitation in primary care. For many years now getting things done online has been part of everyday life, whether that is booking train tickets, doing your Christmas shopping, booking a hairdresser appointment, or paying bills. Why should interacting with your doctor be any different? […]
The Pharma Pollution Hub: finding solutions to reduce the environmental impact of medicines used in UK healthcare – Dr Kelly Thornber Pharmaceuticals are a key component of our healthcare system, and the pharmaceutical sector is important for our economy. But up to 90% of the medicines we consume end up in our wastewater. These pollutants […]
I was very fortunate in that I won a Fellowship to do a PhD at the University of Leeds immediately after completing my GP training. This was way before the advent of NIHR and indeed before any sense of structure to clinical academic careers. This then led to a Lecturer post researching attendance patterns, missed […]
Can multi-task hence at the forefront of research on multimorbidity and combine epidemiology with data science methods. Work on multimorbidity using the examples of heart failure and cardio-oncology. Supporting early career researchers and diversity. Looking forward to building epidemiology data programmes working with data scientists, and innovating. Research can be fun and relevant; not pompous! […]