Dr Ben Bowers received the Queen’s Nursing Institute Award for Outstanding Service today, in recognition of his person-centred approach and leadership in advancing care for patients and families at home. His award for Outstanding Service recognises that Ben’s clinical practice, leadership and research have already had an enduring impact on improving person-centred care. Ben is […]
Terminally ill people struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends
Terminally ill people are struggling to access essential care at home during evenings and weekends, according to new research from King’s College London, Hull York Medical School and the Primary Care Unit at the University of Cambridge. Marie Curie, which funded the research, warns that the findings mean that people are dying in pain. Read […]
No evidence that physical activity calorie-equivalent (PACE) labelling changes food purchasing in worksite cafeterias
An experiment carried out across ten workplace cafeterias found no significant change in the overall number of calories purchased when food and drink labels showed the amount of physical activity required to burn off their calories. Physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) labels, contrary to expectations, may have little or no impact on the food people […]
Experts urge government to keep focused on levelling-up health
Experts are calling on the Government to maintain a focus on ‘levelling-up’ health to tackle health inequalities, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon. It’s crucial that the government considers closing the health gap – which has only got worse during the pandemic – as an urgent priority” John […]
PCU profile: meet Qin Xi
Qin Xi joined PCU in summer 2022 to study for her PhD. Her research is on the economic evaluation of predictive genetic testing. From Beijing to Yale I have been interested in health care since I did my Bachelor’s thesis, which was on China’s public and private health insurance market. My B.A was in economics […]
LGBTQ+ Research and Involvement – what have we learnt?
Reflections on working with a LGBTQ+ public panel to inform research undertaken by Katie Saunders from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. by Clara M de Barros, Katie Saunders and Sally Crowe Dr Catherine (Katie) Saunders, researcher, Cambridge, Clara M de Barros, member of the LGBTQ+ panel and public contributor, […]
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