Blog by Dr Rakesh Modi, a GP and Wellcome PhD Fellow in the Primary Care Unit of the University of Cambridge. He is performing research on the landmark NIHR-funded SAFER trial investigating screening to detect an undiagnosed heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes. Here he writes on how the SAFER programme has evolved […]
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, […]
Medical students based at home can be trusted to consult remotely with patients: qualitative evaluation of pilot at the University of Cambridge
Research by the University of Cambridge shows how medical students can engage in remote consultations and keep learning directly from patients even during the pandemic. Medical teachers can enable their students to successfully gain clinical experience even during lockdown periods, via supervised remote consultations with patients, according to a study carried out in June 2020 […]
Understanding multimorbidity to improve patient care
One of the greatest challenges for healthcare is multimorbidity: the presence in one person of multiple long-term diseases. At least a quarter of the UK population have more than one long-term disease, and those that do are more frequent users of NHS services. The specific diseases an individual has affects how they interact with the […]
Malati Kanbur PhD Studentship in Stroke and the Elderly
A fully funded PhD studentship in stroke and the elderly, named in honour of Mrs Malati Kanbur, will be available from October 2016, or earlier by mutual agreement. The studentship is based at the Cambridge University Department of Public Health & Primary Care, under the supervision of Jonathan Mant, Professor of Primary Care Research, and […]
Elka Humphrys Shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award
Elka Humphrys, a PhD student in the Cancer Group, was delighted to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award with her article “’It’s not fair’: a tale of two cancers”. The MRC Max Perutz Award challenges MRC-funded researchers to write an 800-word article for the general public answering the question: ‘Why does my research […]