In category: SPCR Fellowships

Bridging the Gap: The Story of Inclusion Thurrock: Psychological Therapy Service (IT:PTS) – Dr Richard Pione Within talking therapies provision, the importance of accessible primary care talking psychological services for a range of patients with more complex needs cannot be overstated. They can be an essential service for individuals grappling with mental health difficulties, offering […]

Luke Mounce, PI on FR1-IV 515 “Primary care research facilitation” At the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx), we have seen the immense value in patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in our research for a long time.  Until joining the School for Primary Care Research, however, we had no “in-house” PPIE co-ordination […]

Sleep and dementia – risk reduction and management   Chris Fox- TIMES chief investigator.   Up to 44% of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have sleep disturbances, and that number rises to 90% for those with dementia with Lewy bodies or Parkinson disease dementia. Sleep disturbance among People Living With Dementia (PLWD) and Mild Cognitive […]

Five days before Christmas we received the wonderful news that our NIHR School for Primary Care Research grant application “OSCA” had been successful. Our study focuses on attendance at suspected-cancer investigations in people with anxiety and/or depression. The ideas arose from NIHR programme grant “Spotting Cancer Among Comorbidities” and from people’s stories about how their […]

    Can you tell us a bit about yourself and research and/or career to this point?   I have worked for 2 large insurance companies, Aviva being one. After 5 years, I decided to go back to university and graduated from the University of the West of England. I then fell into being a […]

One of my take-away thoughts from the SAPC annual scientific meeting in Preston last year was how great it was to see people again in real life. Although I think that most of us are spending a bit more time in the office, sitting in front of Microsoft Teams continues to account for a substantial […]

Bio Sarah Price is a senior research fellow in the Cancer DISCOvery Group at University of Exeter. Her work focuses on clinical and methodological aspects of early cancer diagnosis. She was lead researcher on a Cancer Research UK project evaluating the clinical and health economic impacts of revising the National Institute for Health and Care […]

Q and A with Beccy Summers Can you tell us a bit about yourself and research and/or career to this point? I completed my undergraduate degree in Biochemisty at Swansea University and went on to complete an MSc in Molecular Neuroscience at the University of Bristol. Although I found the underlying pathophysiology of different health […]

Q and A with Sarah Bailey   Can you tell us a bit about yourself and research and/or career to this point? Patients with early stages of cancer sometimes present to their GP with non-specific symptoms. Because these symptoms tend to be very common, and are much more likely to be caused by something other […]

  Can you tell us a bit about yourself and research career to this point? I’m an academic GP, which means I spend part of my week working as a GP and the other part undertaking research at the University of Exeter. My career started with my medical degree which I completed in Cambridge, along […]