A rare study of attitudes to death and dying amongst the very old has been published by members of the PCU (Morag Farquhar and Stephen Barclay) and collaborators (Dr Jane Fleming, Dept. of Public Health) in the PLOS ONE journal. “Now so many more people have reached a great age before they die, it’s important we […]
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Academic Clinical Lecturer post
The Appointments Committee for Clinical Lecturers in the School of Clinical Medicine invite applications for a NIHR Clinical Lecturer in General Practice, in the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care to take up the appointment as soon as convenient. Applicants should have had suitable experience and training in General Practice. They […]
Active management of blood pressure after stroke/transient ischaemic attack is more important than the target that is set
Management of high blood pressure is crucial, to forestall end organ damage, disability, and death and to reduce societal costs from cardiovascular disease, including stroke. Good management of high blood pressure is particularly important in general practice, where most patient care occurs. Recent clinical practice guidelines recommend that treatment aims to reduce blood pressure, aiming […]
‘If general practice fails, the whole NHS fails’, argue Professor Martin Roland and Sir Sam Everington
Professor Martin Roland and Sir Sam Everington argue that General Practice falls down the list when it comes to funding Hospitals’ £2bn deficit “certainly sounds dramatic, but hospitals don’t go bust – someone usually picks up the bill.” General practice doesn’t have that luxury, and its share of the NHS budget has fallen from 11% […]
Ads for candy-flavoured e-cigarettes could encourage vaping among school children
In a study funded by the Department of Health, researchers at BHRU, (Primary Care Unit) University of Cambridge, assigned 598 school children to one of three groups: one group was shown adverts for candy-like flavoured e-cigarettes; a second group adverts for non-flavoured e-cigarettes; and a third, control group, in which the children saw no adverts. The […]
Malati Kanbur PhD Studentship in Stroke and the Elderly
A fully funded PhD studentship in stroke and the elderly, named in honour of Mrs Malati Kanbur, will be available from October 2016, or earlier by mutual agreement. The studentship is based at the Cambridge University Department of Public Health & Primary Care, under the supervision of Jonathan Mant, Professor of Primary Care Research, and […]
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