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Addressing healthcare workforce challenges with new research partnership
9 April 2025
Researchers from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences are part of a major new research initiative aimed at tackling critical workforce challenges in healthcare, particularly in underserved communities.
Global Healthcare Leadership Alumni Retreat brings together healthcare leaders from around the world
9 April 2025
The NDPCHS Global Healthcare Leadership Alumni Retreat united alumni, students and faculty from across NDPCHS programmes for a dynamic weekend of learning, collaboration and leadership – highlighting the power of community in shaping the future of healthcare.
Design for the Oxford Institute of Digital Health wins gold at international architecture award
9 April 2025
Architects’ plans for the proposed future home of the Oxford Institute of Digital Health (OIDH) – part of the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences – have won a World Architecture News (WAN) Gold Award in the Adaptive Reuse category.
Making medical research work where it matters most: Global team calls for revolution in GP and community health and care trials
27 March 2025
An international team, led the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, is calling for a fundamental shift in how we conduct health research to better serve our real-world health and care needs.
Professor Michael Kidd appointed as Australia's next Chief Medical Officer
21 March 2025
Professor Michael Kidd AO, MBBS, MD, FAHMS, FRACGP has been appointed as Australia’s new Chief Medical Officer from 1 June 2025.
Professor Susan Jebb celebrated in Women in Westminster: The 100
12 March 2025
Professor Susan Jebb OBE has been recognised in the 2025 Women in Westminster: The 100 list in her role as Chair of the Food Standards Agency.
Role of Physician and Anaesthetic Associates in UK healthcare challenged in largest ever review
7 March 2025
A new study has found little evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetists associates (AAs) in the UK, raising critical questions about the rapid expansion of these roles in the NHS.
Tackling healthy, sustainable diets and Net Zero goals with new UKRI-funded THRIVING project
3 March 2025
New research hub THRIVING Food Futures set to accelerate the UK’s journey to net zero by designing and evaluating new food policies to support healthy, sustainable diets across the UK.
Junk food ads flood children’s social media feeds, new study finds
26 February 2025
New research shows children and young people are bombarded with social media ads for junk food, which influence their food choices, but current rules do little to protect them.
New UK-Wide Centre to address growing respiratory health crisis
24 February 2025
New UK-wide Centre for Applied Respiratory Research, Innovation and Impact (CARRii) launches at Oxford, aiming to reduce hospital admissions and health inequalities in respiratory care through innovative research and technology.
Major investment to transform mental health treatment research and further develop secure NHS data platform
19 February 2025
Department researchers awarded £17 million from Wellcome across two separate grants, to analyse NHS talking therapy outcomes and enhance secure data research. The project will enable unprecedented mental health treatment research through the OpenSAFELY platform.
Concerning ethnic disparities in access to safe COVID-19 treatment, new study shows
10 February 2025
New research shows concerning disparities in how Sotrovimab - a COVID-19 treatment approved for extremely clinically vulnerable patients - is given to patients, despite it being safe.
Broaching weight loss conversations: new research offers effective guidance for clinicians
3 February 2025
New research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences sets out evidence-based guidance to help clinicians have more effective and supportive conversations about weight loss with patients living with obesity.
Weight loss programmes improve disordered eating symptoms, new study finds
3 February 2025
New research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Department of Psychiatry provides reassurance that weight loss programmes do not worsen disordered eating symptoms and may lead to improvements in people who already exhibit symptoms of disordered eating.
Rosamund Snow Scholarship deadline extended to 14 February: Empowering patient-led research
28 January 2025
The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences has extended the deadline for applications to the Rosamund Snow Scholarship for Patient-Led Research to 14 February 2025. Recent recipients of the scholarship, Amelia Talbot and Jeremy Leslie-Spinks share their research projects and DPhil experiences.
NHS Scotland needs 20% capacity boost to clear Covid backlog, study shows
16 January 2025
New research suggests NHS Scotland must increase its non-emergency hospital treatment capacity by 20% over the next three years to address the backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
New senior academic appointments in Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
16 January 2025
Koen Pouwels and Cicely Marston join NDPCHS in senior academic roles with Kellogg College and Brian Nicholson is appointed to a senior academic post with St Hugh’s College.
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