This new series of brief Research Alerts is for clinicians and healthcare commissioners. The Alerts will address key issues in primary care, based on comment, analysis and research from Primary Care Unit researchers.
Prepared in collaboration with NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group.
Alerts for GPs and service commissioners
GPs can safely reduce the number of antihypertensive medications taken by some older people without substantial changes to blood pressure…
Research Alert and video: Advance care planning in heart failure patients
This research alert is for those working in healthcare. It summarises the case for interventions to engage clinicians in advance…
The largest study yet of people with mild hypertension shows that medical treatment may not be worthwhile in those at…