Delays in referrals for suspected cancer are unlikely to be down to poor performance by GPs, argue a team of researchers today in the British Medical Journal. Instead, they say that such delays largely reflect limitations in scientific knowledge and in the organisation and delivery of healthcare. Diagnosing cancer soon after the onset of symptoms […]
Archives for December 2014
Opportunity for Social Scientist at the Primary Care Unit
The Primary Care Unit is recruiting a non-clinical University Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences. The vacancy arises through the move of the previous post-holder (Dr Simon Cohn) to a Readership at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. The successful candidate will have a key role in supporting social sciences research applied to health […]
Health Education England announces Martin Roland as Chair of the new Primary Care Workforce Commission
Health Education England (HEE) today announces that Professor Martin Roland will chair the Primary Care Workforce Commission. The work was commissioned by Health Education England at the request of the Secretary of State for Health, due to the future health and care system requiring greater emphasis on community, primary and integrated services, and to ensure that […]
CCHSR Paper & Article discussed in the Guardian
The Guardian newspaper printed a feature today (Dec 1st) on work by Katie Saunders & HSR team members looking at the mismatch between self-reported ethnicity and ethnicity as recorded in hospital records. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/01/nhs-records-ethnicity-incorrect-disease-prevalence The full paper on BMJ Open can be found here. The paper was a runner up in the RSS’s Young Statistician of the Year […]