Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Caring for people with long-term conditions takes up substantial resources. This isn’t news, but it’s surprising how much we still don’t know. It’s often simple stuff, that would really help us deliver care more effectively and efficiently. Work being undertaken by APEx academics in our Long-Term Conditions research theme is looking at some of these […]
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 […]
A few members of the team following the IMPPP dissemination event at RCGP in October 2025 The research process can be a long one. Back in 2016, NIHRput a call out for evidence for interventions to improve the management ofpolypharmacy. By early in 2018, we had been awarded just under £2 million byHSDR to develop, […]
By Dr Sam Merriel NHS GP and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sam-merriel-69078661/ A global wave of prostate cancer is coming. According to the recent Lancet Commission on prostate cancer[SM1] , new cases of the disease are expected to double between 2020 and 2040. Even though the coming wave is largely driven by […]
As colleagues in Exeter will know a large part of my Deputy Medical Director role within the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) was spent in leading pandemic primary care studies. As the dust settles on COVID-19, now is an appropriate time to reflect on the delivery of the […]
At the end of May 2024 I attended a symposium in New Delhi organised by the Indian Council of Medical Research and The Academy of Medical Sciences on ‘Addressing antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approach’. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is associated with or directly attributed to around 5 million of deaths a year according to […]