Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
The chances are that you are a caregiver or will be in the future. Three in five of us will be a caregiver at some point in our lives supporting at least one person with a long-term condition. A caregiver (or carer) is defined by the Carers Trust as: “anyone who cares, unpaid, for a […]
The UK is making a serious attempt to prevent type 2 diabetes. We know that the development of type 2 diabetes is strongly driven by excess weight and low levels of physical activity. High quality trials have shown that this process is reversible through lifestyle change. The NHS England “One You ” national diabetes prevention […]
We are all aware of the challenges presently faced by the GP workforce, which include decreased NHS expenditure and resources for general practice and persistent difficulties recruiting new GPs and with retaining the existing workforce. All of this is in the context of increased workload through greater numbers of consultations, increased prevalence of co-morbidity and […]
Quite a lot has been happening on the mental health front within the University over recent months that has relevance to APEx. I’d like to take this opportunity to update you all. In particular, there have been a number of very important appointments. Firstly, Professor Clive Ballard was appointed as the new Dean of the […]
Many people (58% of the English population) have multiple health conditions. Having multiple health conditions is associated with worse quality of life, depression, reduced functional status, increased risk of premature death, and more potentially avoidable hospital admissions. In the Health Services and Policy Research Group at Exeter, we have been conducting research into the causes […]
There are four GP Academic Clinical Fellows (ACFs) based at the University of Exeter. We are all GP trainees who have the exciting opportunity of extending our training by a year to integrate academic experience and prepare us for a career in academic primary care. Two of us joined Professors Willie Hamilton and Jose Valderas […]
Research into patient reported experience of primary care has been going on in Exeter for a number of years. Before I moved to Exeter I worked on a joint programme of work (IMPROVE) between Exeter and the University of Cambridge aiming to get a better understanding of data from the GP Patient Survey. In the […]
SAPC Conference, Dublin, 6-8 July 2016 The start of July just wouldn’t be the same without the national Society for Academic Primary Care conference – in its 45th year we found ourselves hosted by our European friends from Dublin, including the Department of General Practice, RCSI Medical School and the HRB Centre for Primary Care. […]
The 2016 UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) research conference took place last week in Sheffield (#PROMsconf2016). Over one hundred participants took part, attending 12 parallel sessions and one poster session and plenaries on Computerized adaptive testing by Professor Tim Croudace, Dundee (discussant; Dr Chris Gibbons, Cambridge); Feedback on PROMs to healthcare providers by Associate […]
Amsterdam meeting 2016 Over recent years the primary care mental health research conference has not only attracted growing numbers of UK-based primary care researchers, but has also attracted researchers from the Netherlands and other European countries. Like the UK, these Northern European countries’ healthcare face the familiar challenges of providing mental health care to ever-increasing […]