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During 28 April – 30 April 2025, the Long-Term Conditions research group attended the annual conference of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) in Manchester alongside clinicians, allied health professionals, researchers and charities (2,000 delegates total). The team presented five studies across two oral...

We are pleased to announce that Dr Ben Bowers has been appointed to the role of Assistant Professor of Primary Care within the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Dr Bowers is a clinical academic community nurse and a longstanding member of the Palliative &...

Dr Martin Kelemen, Professor Mike Inouye and Professor Adam Butterworth, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care Deep-learning approaches have become popular with many successful applications in a variety of fields. Neural-networks achieve their impressive performance by leveraging...

Katherine Parkin and Efthalia Massou, Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. What we found... 1. Machine learning performance in the prototypes was promising, though more work will be needed to develop these models into clinically usable tools. 2. Linking data together from different sources helps...