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We lead multidisciplinary applied research and training to rethink the way health care is delivered in general practice and across the community.
£9m boost for health research in Oxford
9 August 2013
Oxfordshire Researchers receive £9 million of funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Dr Carl Heneghan makes Top 100 Clinical Leaders List
20 June 2013
Health Service Journal (HSJ), announces its inaugural Clinical Leaders list providing an industry listing of clinical leaders who are making the greatest impact in the areas of health policy, service redesign, and research and innovation.
Music device doesn't drop diabetics' blood pressure
12 June 2013
Insufficient evidence to suggest device designed to lower blood pressure is effective.
Athena Swan Bronze Award
10 June 2013
Department of Primary Care Health Sciences receives Athena Swan Bronze Award
GPs should offer NRT to smokers who refuse to quit
6 June 2013
GPs should offer nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) to smokers who refuse to quit in order to help them cut down the amount they smoke, according to new NICE guidance aimed at helping more people kick the habit.
Quitting Smoking: Licensed Medications Are Effective
31 May 2013
Nicotine replacement therapy and other licensed drugs can help people quit smoking, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library.
Congratulations Dr Nathan Hill
31 May 2013
Dr Nathan Hill elected to the Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Executive Committee
Four million pounds of funding to improve diagnosis of diseases
29 May 2013
The Department of Health has today announced four million pounds to improve the evidence for new diagnostic tests, benefiting patient care.
UK Diagnostics Forum a great success
3 May 2013
Smoking Prevention in Schools: Does it Work?
30 April 2013
Smoking prevention in schools reduces the number of young people who will later become smokers, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. For young people who have never smoked, these programmes appear to be effective at least one year after implementation.
CEBM holds first workshop in Lithuania
29 April 2013
250-member audience learn more about the theory and practice of EBM
Conditions that threaten women's lives in childbirth and pregnancy
15 April 2013
Severe and life-threatening complications in pregnancy can have a big impact on fathers as well as mothers
Under Pressure?
8 April 2013
Dr Carl Heneghan speaks at World Health Day Event at WHO headquarters in Geneva
Why clinical commissioning groups need to think differently about patients
27 March 2013
A social enterprise is helping commissioners take a new approach and involve patients more in the process
'Most family doctors' have given a patient a placebo drug
21 March 2013
Study carried out by the University of Oxford and University of Southampton suggests most family doctors have given a placebo to at least one of their patients,
NIHR Senior Investigator Awards Announced
15 March 2013
Two senior researchers awarded NIHR Senior Investigator Awards
Best qualitative poster prize awarded to Dr Caroline Jones
15 March 2013
Caroline Jones awarded best qualitative poster prize at South West Society of Academic Primary Care conference.
EU agrees funding for major exciting new research initiative
13 March 2013
Grant awarded for 'Supporting low cost intervention for disease control' project
No clear benefits for kids' blood pressure checks
1 March 2013
No evidence that checking kids' and teens' blood pressure - and treating them if it's high - can reduce their heart risks in adulthood, according to a new analysis.
Would these children still be alive if doctors had listened to their mothers' instinct?
27 February 2013
Feature on whether doctors should pay more attention to parents’ instincts when children are ill