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NIHR Senior Investigator award for Professor Alastair Hay
Professor Alastair Hay from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care is one of 46 academics in the UK to be awarded Senior Investigator status by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in 2019.
Can you help us design a cutting-edge app to help treat depression?
We need GPs to help researchers at the University of Bristol design a new app that could help track response to therapy.
Guidelines may promote over-diagnosis of cow’s milk allergy in infants
International guidelines developed to help doctors diagnose cow’s milk allergy may lead to over-diagnosis, according to University of Bristol-led research published in the journal Clinical and Experimental Allergy today [8 December]. The study found that three-quarters of infants have two or more symptoms at some point in the first year of life which guidelines say may be caused by cow’s milk allergy, yet the condition only affects one in 100.
New questionnaire will help researchers measure the ‘burden’ of treatment for patients with multiple health problems in primary care
Patients with multiple health problems, known as multimorbidity, have many things to think about and do to take care of their health. Experts from the Centre of Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol have developed a questionnaire to help researchers measure this treatment ‘burden’, so that they can understand the impact that interventions to improve care might have on patients’ daily lives.
Dr Katrina Turner and Professor John Macleod appointed joint Heads of CAPC
Dr Katrina Turner and Professor John Macleod have been appointed joint Heads of the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) and the Bristol NIHR School for Primary Care Research. They will take up the post on 2 October 2017.
IRISi team wins Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Award 2017
Professor Gene Feder, Medina Johnson and colleagues in the IRISi team – (IRIS – Identification and Referral to Improve Safety) were the ‘Policy and Practice’ category winners in this year’s University of Bristol Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards, for work to improve the primary healthcare response to domestic violence and abuse.
Complexity approaches and writing for impact: Professor Alex Clark seminars
Free seminar series for health research staff and students: 4 to 15 December 2017
Sexual health clinics should ask about abuse
Training clinicians to proactively ask patients about domestic violence is feasible for sexual health clinics to implement and could increase referrals to specialist services, according to a study by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Bristol involving over 4,300 women.
NHS Health Checks: the importance of targeted approaches for male and BAME patients to improve equity in uptake
Patients are more likely to attend an NHS Health Check if they’re already at lower risk of stroke or heart attack, a University of Bristol evaluation has found. The patient groups most likely to respond to the standard invitation to attend a check are female, ‘white British’, older or from more affluent areas.