Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners ‘Rethinking Medicine’ Tue, 17 March 2020, 18:00 – 19:30 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, View Map All guests welcome for snacks and drinks after the Lecture Please […]
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Social care assessments of children ‘in need’ to be explored in new research
A new programme of research called ‘Living Assessment’ will explore how health is considered in social care assessments of children in need in England, including those who are disabled. A central focus will be how children and young people experience the assessments process. The research, beginning later this year, follows a major, five-year […]
Veg ‘nudge’: extra vegetarian option reduces meat consumption without denting food sales
A study of over 94,000 cafeteria meal choices has found that doubling the vegetarian options – from one in four to two in four – reduced the proportion of meat-rich purchases by between 40-80% without affecting overall food sales. The results are from the first major study to look at whether tweaking food availability […]
Type 2 diabetes can be cured with ‘achievable’ weight loss, say researchers
People who achieve weight loss of 10% or more in the first five years following diagnosis with type 2 diabetes have the greatest chance of seeing their disease go into remission, according to a study led by the University of Cambridge. The findings suggest that it is possible to recover from the disease without intensive […]
Contribute to a new medical humanities working group at the University of Cambridge
The Department of Public Health and Primary Care is setting up a new medical humanities working group. This aims to explore and utilise the relevance of the arts and humanities to medical education. Dr Anne Swift (Director, Improving Health teaching) Dr Robbie Duschinsky (Head, Applied Social Science group at the Primary Care Unit) and Dr […]
PCU Cancer Group contribute to CRUK’s first summer school
Members of the Primary Care Cancer Group made a valuable contribution to CRUK’s Cambridge Centre Early Detection Programme summer school, held in Cambridge in July 2019. Dr Fiona Walter presented on the use of cancer diagnostics in primary care while Dr Valerie Sills was Scrum Master for the winning team in the ‘Envisioning New Diagnostics’ […]
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