Blog by Dr Catherine Saunders, Research Associate at the Primary Care Unit, and Sarah Deeny, Health Foundation Public discourse on migration often emphasises the perception that migrants place more strain on the NHS than those born in the UK. But this perception doesn’t reflect reality. We’ve recently published new research, adding to the evidence that […]
Further evaluation is required for smartphone-aided diagnosis of skin cancer
Blog by Dr Fiona Walter, head of Cancer Group at the Primary Care Unit and co-director of the international CanTest collaborative Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world, and the incidence is increasing. Could skin cancer detection be transformed by innovative technologies such as digital medicine and artificial intelligence, offering […]
Counselling techniques can be built into health apps to help users to get more physically active
Counselling techniques can be built into health apps to help users to get more physically active, say researchers after initial tests on a prototype called the Precious app. The tests were carried out by a research team including University of Cambridge researcher, Johanna Nurmi. Drawing from behavioural science, the Precious app aims to support the […]
New way to measure multiple health conditions may help healthcare services respond to the needs of patients
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 […]
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