Professor Martin Roland CBE, Emeritus Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge, used a career’s worth of research and insight to influence primary care policy. This included chairing a government commission on the primary care workforce and working hard to ensure that the Commission’s recommendations were effectively communicated to the relevant policymakers. […]
Archives for July 2016
Why do so many primary care patients say ‘Yes’ when asked to take part in research? Dr Jonathan Graffy on the value of the NIHR Clinical Research Network
General practice offers rich and diverse opportunities to conduct clinical research – with excellent electronic records, access to nearly the entire population and staff who value evidence for practice. 43% of all those recruited to research in the East of England were recruited through General Practice in 2015/16. Because primary care is fragmented into thousands […]
Influencing the national debate on obesity – a BHRU case study
Professor Theresa Marteau and the team at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit conducted a Cochrane systematic review producing the most conclusive evidence to date that people consistently consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware than when offered smaller-sized versions. This has informed Public Health England’s report on sugar reduction […]
The spectrum effect in tests for risk prediction, screening, and diagnosis
The importance of the spectrum effect Much of clinical practice relies on tests measuring one or more characteristics of an individual to determine whether that individual is at risk of developing a condition of interest or does or does not have a particular disease. Many scientists and clinicians are engaged in developing and/or choosing whether […]