Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog

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Turning Prevention Policy Into Practice: Lessons from the parkrun Practice initiative, by Dr Rosina Cross, Dr Emma Cockcroft and Ms Jess Marshall

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 […]


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Primary care studies in the COVID-19 pandemic : my PRINCIPLE and PANORAMIC experience by Professor Phil Evans

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 […]


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Antimicrobial resistance – what should we focus on? Associate Professor Emma Pitchforth

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 […]


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