Calling Madingley SAPC 2019 delegates: Join Dr Katerina Kassavou and the Behavioural Science Group from the University of Cambridge at our interactive workshop on digital interventions to support medication adherence in primary care. Research into digital interventions to support patients’ positive behaviour change is growing fast with implications across all areas of behavioural health research […]
Archives for December 2018
Multimorbidity and mental health services – a combined challenge?
Blog by Dr Duncan Edwards, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and GP Much is made of the need to adapt health services for patients with multimorbidity, and much is made of the need to improve struggling mental health services. They’re often presented as separate challenges. News stories can conjure up images of older patients with multiple […]
Appropriateness of prescriptions made in advance for patients nearing the end of life remains unknown
The prescription and dispensing of injectable medications to provide end of life symptom relief for patients approaching the end of their lives in the community, in advance of clinical need, is established practice in the UK and other countries. But a new review of the research literature reveals that this widespread practice is based on […]