Dr Robbie Duschinsky, head of the Applied Social Science Group at the Cambridge Primary Care Unit, invites you to the Inaugural Annual Symposium of the Group ‘Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study’ with Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading Monday, 10th […]
Archives for August 2016
Dr Pia Thiemann – from health risks for female elite athletes to bereavement support
Congratulations to Dr Pia Thiemann, who joined Dr Stephen Barclay’s group in 2013, for her newly awarded PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Pia was encouraged to progress her PhD alongside her Cambridge work on the DIME studies, which explored those factors in undergraduate medical education which might influence the quality of patient care provided by […]
All risks are equal, but some risks are (apparently) more equal than others…
by Dr Collette Isabel Stadler, Academic Clinical Fellow at the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge and GP Registrar Last month, The Pulse journal published alarming figures obtained from 15 mental health trusts in the UK, revealing how access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is becoming increasingly restricted. In 2015, only […]
Educational support for carers of patients with advanced disease
Breathlessness is a distressing and disabling symptom of advanced disease, that is frequently present in advanced cancer and cardiorespiratory disease. It is difficult and frightening for patients, and their carers often experience anxiety and emotional distress, partly related to a lack of support and knowledge about how best to help. As part of a program […]
Cancer prevention – developing risk based interventions in primary care: new approaches from Dr Juliet Usher-Smith
Dr Juliet Usher-Smith, Clinical Lecturer at the Primary Care Unit, has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Prevention Fellowship of almost £450k for her research entitled Developing a very brief intervention to promote behaviour change for cancer prevention in primary care. It is estimated that approximately 40% of cases of cancer are attributable to lifestyle […]
Influencing NICE guidelines – a case study on Dr Robbie Duschinsky’s impact on assessment for vulnerable children
Dr Robbie Duschinsky, of Cambridge’s Primary Care Unit at the School of Clinical Medicine, mobilised international colleagues to ensure draft NICE guidelines that had the potential to impact on the experiences and outcomes of children suspected of being the victims of maltreatment were revised to reflect the most robust and up-to-date evidence. Dr Duschinsky is […]