CAPC’s Teaching team wins Education and Training Team of the Year Award
The Centre for Academic Primary Care’s (CAPC) Teaching team has won the Education and Training Team of the Year Award at Health Education England South West’s 2017 Star Awards.
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Professor Gene Feder takes on leadership role at the Centre for Academic Primary Care
Professor Gene Feder has taken on the role of head of the Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) on an interim basis, until Autumn 2017, from Professor Chris Salisbury.
GPs and pharmacists need to develop trusting relationships, finds study
GPs and pharmacists work best together when they understand and value one another’s expertise, according to a new study by researchers at the Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol.
New way to measure multiple health conditions may help healthcare services respond to the needs of patients
The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score is a new method for measuring multiple long-term health conditions amongst primary care patients, intended to help healthcare planners trying to respond to the needs of patients with multiple health conditions, or multimorbidity. It outperforms the most commonly used current measure, called the Charlson index.
‘Continuity of primary care matters and should be protected’
Continuity of care – seeing the same GP – has proven benefits and could be a key line of defence against rising hospital admissions argue leading academics in an editorial published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) today.
Call for national guidance to help GPs document domestic violence
Guidance is urgently needed to help GPs decide what information to include on electronic records of children and families experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA).
CAPC's Professor Sarah Purdy is appointed Associate Dean
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.
Bristol & South Gloucestershire IRIS Partnership win the Voscur Partnership Award at the 2020 Voscurs
Last night (Thursday 30 January) IRISi had the honour of attending the Voscurs and accepting the Partnership Award for the Bristol & South Gloucestershire IRIS Partnership.
CAPC shines in the BJGP’s top 10 research papers for 2019
Three papers by researchers from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) were in the top five of the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) top 10 most read papers in 2019.
New website aims to improve understanding of chronic kidney disease
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.