Researchers from the University of Bristol have contributed to the Chief Medical Officer’s annual report for 2015, which focuses on women’s health with a priority of preventing and overcoming health inequality in the UK.
Researchers at the Centre for Academic Primary Care are looking for GPs to take part in a focus group for a research project on the use of complementary and alternative medicine in general practice.
Mairead Murphy, a PhD student funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, has won the Best Poster Prize at the University of Bristol's 6th Population Health Annual Symposium.
The 3D study, led by CAPC researchers and aimed at improving the management of patients with multiple long-term health problems, has successfully recruited more than 1380 patients in just six months.
Researchers at the University of Bristol have received £1.5 million from the NIHR for their trial looking at easing the pain of ear infections.This is part of a larger investment of over £15.8 million into research to tackle into drug resistant infections, by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the research arm of the NHS.
Researchers have found that computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) is likely to be ineffective in the treatment of depression.
The CAPC team that is part of the Bath Additives for the Treatment of Childhood Eczema (BATHE) project is celebrating passing the 100 participant milestone, and being ahead of its target to recruit 150 children
Two projects led by researchers at the Centre for Academic Primary Care have received funding from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research.
Dr Alison Gregory from the University’s Centre for Academic Primary Care is joint winner of the 2015 Corinna Seith Award, run by Women Against Violence Europe (WAVE).
Dr Trevor Thompson has played a key role in Bristol’s inaugural Healthy City Week which will take place from the 10th–18th October 2015, aiming to inspire citizens of Bristol to achieve healthier lifestyles as part of a more sustainable future city.
A study led by the University of Bristol, in collaboration with University of Central Lancashire, found many GPs and practice nurses are uncertain how to manage consultations involving children exposed to domestic violence. The research has led to the development of a new training programme for clinicians dealing with some of the complex issues around abuse.
Three projects led by researchers at the Centre for Academic Primary Care have received funding from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research.
A research paper published in 2014 by researchers from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care and colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Exeter has won Research Paper of the Year Award 2014 from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
Dr Sam Merriel, a research fellow at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care, has been selected to participate in a workshop aimed at generating new and innovative ideas for behavioural research in cancer prevention for young people.
Researchers from the University of Bristol are running a number of studies locally, looking at how to best look after children with this common and often troublesome condition.
Mothers who took part in a study about preschool children’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour do not feel that the government targets are relevant to their preschooler.
Couples who have successfully conceived following fertility treatment need additional antenatal care and support, new research has found. Two per cent of all births in the UK are a result of fertility treatments such as IVF. An increasing body of evidence suggests the needs of these parents are often not adequately addressed, leaving them feeling abandoned in some cases.
A booklet aimed at helping friends and family members to support victims of domestic abuse has been written by a researcher from the University of Bristol and is being distributed to hundreds of locations across the city.
Patients often complain that they can't see the same doctor, but does this matter? A new study from Samuel Merriel and colleagues, from the University of Bristol suggests that it may where a relationship between patient and doctor has been built.
A new project has started that is investigating the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for multimorbid patients with mental health and musculoskeletal problems in primary care. The researchers are looking for help in gathering grey literature and case studies where CAM has been used alongside conventional NHS treatment.
Dr Jess Watson, an academic clinical fellow at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, has reached the final of the Vasco da Gama Movement Junior Researcher Award, a competition that aims to promote junior GP doctors who include research skills with patient care as a life time career.
Researchers from the University of Bristol have investigated what leads to high use of antibiotics for children with coughs and found the motives for their use are complex but centre around children being vulnerable.
Three members of staff from the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) in the School for Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol have recently won awards for their work in teaching.
Professor Gene Feder was interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol today about his research into domestic violence.
Dr Trevor Thompson from the Centre for Academic Primary Care has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Professor Judith McFarlane, a champion of domestic violence advocacy in the US and internationally and one of the first domestic violence researchers to use cohort and trial designs has been awarded a University of Bristol Institute of Advanced Studies Benjamin Meaker visiting professorship to build her collaboration with domestic violence researchers here.
As someone who has come into general practice via another specialty, I am particularly interested in what leads people to choose a career in primary care, and how we might be able to help improve recruitment.
Do you care for a child with eczema? Researchers from the University of Bristol are running a number of studies locally, looking at how to best look after children with this common and often troublesome condition.
After five years of research involving cancer diagnosis experts from six UK universities, researchers have made a number of recommendations on how the UK can improve the early diagnosis of cancer.
The Government is aiming for all adults to have online access to their health and social care records by 2020, but researchers from the Institute of Child Health, QMUL and the University of Bristol are concerned about the potential for unintended harm.
As calls to emergency services increase, there is an urgent need for a reliable and consistent method of measuring whether or not these calls are appropriate. These are the findings from a University of Bristol study, published in BMJ Open, which explored ambulance use among patients with problems that could potentially be managed by their GP or other primary care health services.
Men visiting their GP with symptoms of anxiety or depression are more likely to have experienced or carried out some form of behaviour linked to domestic violence and abuse, according to a new University of Bristol study. Researchers say the findings highlight the need for GPs to ask male patients with mental health problems about domestic abuse.
I recently took part in a debate hosted by the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health (QMUL) where I argued that the future quality of the NHS depends on academic primary care.
It’s easy to lose enthusiasm for your job if you’ve been doing it for many years, but when I attended the annual conference of the European Network on Gender and Violence last week, I was struck by the level of passion the delegates continue to have for their work, even after decades of working in their field.
The One in a Million study, a project that aims to collect information about consultations in general practice, has successfully recorded more than 320 patient consultations.
The COMET study, a study of emollients (moisturisers) for children with eczema, has successfully reached its recruitment target with 197 referrals and 153 children still in the study.
Sufferers of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who quit smoking are likely to see a temporary deterioration in their glycaemic control which could last up to three years, according to new research published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
Whether or not patients see the same GP could affect how quickly bowel and lung cancers are diagnosed, according to a Cancer Research UK study published in the British Journal of General Practice today.
Registration is now open for the Discovery Programme conference - a free, one-day event where delegates can find out about the latest research on improving the diagnosis of cancer.
It’s a common dilemma faced by many working parents: your child has a cough or a cold, do you send them to nursery? Researchers from the University of Bristol have, for the first time, investigated the process of decision-making that parents go through when faced with this situation.
