Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Blog
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 […]
Collaborative research in cardiac rehabilitation across the Tamar in Cornwall has been on-going for over a decade starting with Denis Pereira Gray, John Campbell and Phil Evans supervising Hayes Dalal’s MD and conducting the Cornwall Heart Attack Management Study (CHARMS) in the early 2000s (Dalal et al., 2007). More recently and following identification from our […]
Showcasing high quality research It was great to be part of the SW SAPC meeting in Cardiff on 1 and 2 March, particularly appropriate as 1 March was St David’s Day and we were at the heart of the Welsh capital. It was good to see a large number of presentations from staff within APEx […]
We all know – or at least, GPs working at the sharp end of primary care are acutely aware – of the pressures which general practice/primary care is presently facing. The RCGP has done a good job in raising the profile of the present issues facing the workforce, and authoritative bodies like the Centre for […]
The summer term of monthly APEx seminars has come to an end with our usual mix of an external speaker, an internal speaker and a joint one with two ‘junior’ researchers giving shorter seminars within the hour. These were all presented by the organiser of this series, Professor Jose M Valderas, Professor of Health Services […]
Belfast. Yes, Belfast. Just the sort of venue you’d usually find an excuse to avoid if you are asked to give a session at the National Cancer Intelligence Network national conference. But you’d have been wrong to avoid it. Of course, I come biased, having been born within a mile of the conference venue, and […]