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, […]
It’s not clear where General Practitioners/Family Doctors get their information about autism, but is “more training” the only answer?
Considerable variations in knowledge of autism spectrum disorders in children exist amongst GPs in different healthcare systems around the world. The variations are revealed in a new study, which explored what GPs – or family doctors as they are known in many countries – know about autism and the factors that influence their ability to […]
Seeing through the rain: how research is adapting during the pandemic
Dr Rakesh Modi is a GP and Primary Care Unit researcher 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 study has launched an additional feasibility study to test the ability to deliver their intervention remotely following the […]
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 […]
Prof Martin Marshall to give Cambridge GP Lecture 2020
Dr Martin Marshall Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL, Improvement Science London and Chair-elect of the Royal College of General Practitioners ‘Rethinking Medicine’ Tue, 17 March 2020, 18:00 – 19:30 William Harvey Lecture Theatre, The University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, View Map All guests welcome for snacks and drinks after the Lecture Please […]
Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death
Patients who have been diagnosed with diabetes are at a lower risk of early death if they have a doctor who they describe as showing empathy towards them, a new study from the University of Cambridge has found. Empathy is an important concept within healthcare and as such is emphasised in policy, codes of practice, […]
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