The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score is a new method for measuring multiple long-term health conditions amongst primary care patients, intended to help healthcare planners trying to respond to the needs of patients with multiple health conditions, or multimorbidity. It outperforms the most commonly used current measure, called the Charlson index. Numbers of patients with multimorbidity are […]
Improving care by using patients’ feedback in the NHS: NIHR research review features Primary Care Unit research
Both NHS staff and patients express a desire for patients’ feedback about their care experiences to be heard and acted upon and the NHS has clear policies to encourage this. But listening to feedback and taking action in response to this can be complicated and challenging. A new NIHR Themed Review brings together research on […]
What’s it like teaching medical students in primary care? watch our new video to find out
Medical students at the University of Cambridge gain much of their clinical experience during their GP placements, where they are taught and supervised in pairs or very small groups by GP tutors – who are part of a community of practice spanning the whole of East Anglia. Our students now number around 1800 in total […]
Mobile health apps may help older adults to get more active
Mobile health apps are a promising way to help older adults get more active, according to a new analysis from the University of Cambridge, which revealed consistent trends amongst mobile health app users towards increased step counts, physical activity and fitness, as well as decreases in sedentary time. The researchers analysed published studies which tested […]
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