GPs and nurses in primary care want to overcome barriers to discussion about end of life care with their heart failure patients, according to new research from Dr Markus Schichtel and team, but they need specific interventions to make this possible. The research explored the process of discussion, called advance care planning, or ACP, amongst […]
A randomised clinical trial finds a behavioural intervention feasible and potentially effective at supporting biochemically validated adherence to anti-hypertensive medications and at lowering blood pressure in primary care
In this blog, Dr Katerina Kassavou reports that more patients with high blood pressure took their medications as prescribed and experienced lower blood pressure after participating in a behavioural intervention in primary care called the Programme on Adherence to Medication, compared with patients who had normal care. In the UK around a third of adults […]
Research to test screening for common heart condition will involve 12,600 people in four regions of England
12,600 people will help test screening for a common heart condition which is known to be a trigger for strokes. A large new programme of health research on screening for undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, the heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes, is starting here in East Anglia, the North West, the East Midlands and […]
What can primary care do about health inequalities?
How can primary care help reduce health inequalities? Dr John Ford, University of Cambridge, and Dr Geoff Wong, University of Oxford, are launching NIHR-funded research to find out how actions taken in primary care services and GP surgeries around the country can affect health inequalities and what should change. Four chronic conditions, cardiovascular disease, cancer, […]
33% of women who have gestational diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes within 15 years, new research shows
A third of women who get diabetes while pregnant – a common condition called gestational diabetes mellitus or GDM – will go on to develop type 2 diabetes within 15 years of their pregnancy. The figures, in new research from the University of Cambridge, show that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes after a pregnancy […]
New research finds public enthusiastic about kidney cancer screening
In this guest blog, Laragh Harvey-Kelly, a final-year medical student at the University of Cambridge, explains her recently published work on public attitudes to kidney cancer screening. She undertook this research as part of a Student Selected Component supervised by Dr Juliet Usher-Smith. Kidney cancer is on the rise and is projected to increase over […]
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