Professor Sarah Purdy, from the Centre for Academic Primary Care, has been appointed Associate Dean of Social and Clinical Medicine, a new role that has been created as part of the University’s restructuring of its medical faculties.
A new website has been launched today that will help bridge the communication gap between healthcare professionals and patients diagnosed with mild chronic kidney disease (CKD) after research revealed a disparity between what GP’s explain and what patients understand about the condition.
The incidence of prostate cancer among men of Afro-Caribbean origin is higher than in white men, they are more likely to be diagnosed as emergencies and their mortality rates are higher. Until now, it has been unclear why these disappointing outcomes exist. Researchers at the Universities of Exeter, Bristol and College London studied the preferences and choice of more than 500 men who were presented with a realistic hypothetical prostate cancer investigation scenario while attending general practices in Bristol.
The Treatment Options without Antibiotics for Sore Throat (TOAST) project, a collaborative study organised through the University of Oxford, the University of Southampton and the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol, has reached its initial recruitment target of 566 randomized patients across 40 practices on time.
The NHS uses an increasing number of commercial and not-for-profit management consultancies in healthcare commissioning but there are concerns about whether knowledge and expertise they generate is of benefit to commissioners and whether it improves the quality of commissioning.
NICE has proposed measures for health and social care providers to help tackle the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. The aim is to ensure that antibiotics continue to be effective in treating infections.
There is a need for more timely and accurate information and resources to help men with prostate cancer manage the impacts of treatment side effects to according researchers from the University of Bristol.
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and the West of England are inviting members of the public to meet with expert scientists, find out about dementia research in the West, and help make that research better.
CAPC researchers are working with researchers from the universities of Southampton and Cardiff to find out if bath additives are effective treatments for childhood eczema.
Deaf people who sign have poorer health than the general population, according to a study led by researchers from the School for Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.
Prof Chris Salisbury, head of the Centre for Academic Primary Care, was a member of the inquiry panel that recently published a report on patient-centred care, commissioned by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
A group of researchers led by the University of Bristol have received funding for a project that aims to improve the management and treatment of childhood eczema, a common condition that can have a significance impact on quality of life.
Professor Richard Morris has joined the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) to engage his statistical expertise in a wide range of CAPC research projects.
