The latest updates on our primary care research and teaching.
Appointment – Director of Graduate Studies
18 August 2017
Awards & appointments Teaching
Professor Anthony Harnden has been appointed Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) for the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences.
Technology should be used to boost empathy-based medicine
28 June 2017
Patient experience Digital health & innovation Health behaviours
Existing digital technologies must be exploited to enable a paradigm shift in current healthcare delivery which focuses on tests, treatments and targets rather than the therapeutic benefits of empathy.
New Editor-in-Chief for BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine
21 June 2017
Awards & appointments Research methods & EBM
BMJ, a leading healthcare knowledge provider, is pleased to announce Carl Heneghan as the new Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.
Experts set out plan to tackle “questionable integrity” of medical evidence
21 June 2017
Public engagement Research methods & EBM
Manifesto aims to develop more trustworthy evidence to improve healthcare
Talking about healthy, happy eating
20 June 2017
Public engagement Health behaviours Clinical trials
Department members take part in the 2017 Oxfordshire Science Festival
Department awarded for sustainability efforts
14 June 2017
Sustainability Showcase salutes University’s green progress
We are research
19 May 2017
For International Clinical Trials Day 2017, staff and students are taking part in the NIHR's #IAmResearch campaign.
Celebrating our primary care research nurses
12 May 2017
For International Nurses Day 2017, we highlight the vital role of our research nurses in the delivery of our patient-facing primary care clinical trials.
Evidence suggests standardised cigarette packaging may reduce smoking prevalence
27 April 2017
New evidence finds standardised cigarette packaging may reduce the number of people who smoke as UK legislation bans the use of branding on all cigarette packets from May 2017.
Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians
16 March 2017
Applications are now open until 26 March 2017
Highlights on Scoop.it!
NIHR Signals
Some of the latest important NIHR-funded research from our department, summarised by the NIHR Dissemination Centre:
- Screen reminders for GPs did not improve anticoagulant prescribing in atrial fibrillation
- Group therapy may help a few extra people quit smoking, if other methods fail
- A supported web-based programme helps people lose weight in the short term
- A blood test threshold for diagnosing heart failure in general practice is reviewed
- NHS services can help in sustaining quit rates for smoking
- Blowing up a balloon with the nose helps restore hearing in children with glue ear
- Whooping cough infection common in school aged children with stubborn coughs