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Sun, sea and social prescribing: taking the parkrun practice initiative to the European Health Psychology Society Conference in Paphos, Cyprus, by Jess Marshall

There’s nothing quite like a conference held at a Cypriot beachfront hotel to put a spring in a researcher’s step. Beyond the glass doors of the conference venue, palm trees framed a bright Mediterranean sea, and the September sun made the sandy shoreline particularly tempting. Inside, poster boards, coffee cups and lively conversations filled the […]


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What happens when the clinicians your research is designed to support challenge its assumptions? Reflections on presenting physical activity research at European Forum for Primary Care 2026 and why disagreement can be valuable when developing interventions that need to work in real-world primary care, by Dr Rosina Cross

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to travel to Stuttgart for the European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) 2026 conference, where I presented two areas of our research; the development of the GP PA Toolkit and our evaluation of the parkrun practice initiative. Both projects explore, in different ways, how primary care might support […]


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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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