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« Back to Research and Teaching BlogWeighing up the pros and cons - patients’ views and experiences of video consultations
Dr Gemma Hughes, Health Services Researcher in the IRIHS Team, writes on current research led by Dr Sara Shaw and funded by the Health Foundation.
PARADIGM is done, but its mission is just beginning
Now the project has wrapped up, Teresa Finlay gives a brief overview of the outputs and the department member's roles in the Patients Active in Research and Dialogues for an Improved generation of Medicines (PARADIGM) project.
From famine to feast? Staff experiences of video consulting in the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Gemma Hughes and Dr Lucy Moore write about current research on video consulting, led by Dr Sara Shaw, with funding from the Health Foundation.
Care organising technologies and the post-phenomenology of care: an ethnographic case study
Gemma Hughes reflects on research into care organising technologies, led by Professor Sara Shaw and recently published in Social Science and Medicine.
COVID-19 and heart failure
For people with heart failure, COVID-19 presents a challenge.
Triple Dutch - three lessons from Dutch primary care
With significant recent announcements poised to affect the future of British general practice, GP academic trainee Dr Salman Waqar reflects on his visit to the Netherlands on an exchange program to see if the grass was greener on the other side.
Population health: Forget tech, modifying social structures should be our collective focus
7 December 2018
Following the World Health Organisation/UNICEF Global Conference on Primary Health Care, Dr Luke Allen, a GP Academic Clinical Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, explains how to improve population health.
“You’ve got pre-diabetes.” What does the patient do next?
8 August 2018
Cardiovascular & metabolic Health Services Research Health behaviours Policy & health systems
Diabetes prevention is a national priority, and those on the pathway to diabetes are now given the diagnosis "pre-diabetes" to encourage lifestyle changes that improve their outlook. But what's the reality for those given a diagnosis? NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and DPhil Student Eleanor Barry writes about her latest research looking at how behaviours change following a pre-diabetes diagnosis, spotlighting a range of social and cultural factors for policymakers to consider.
Integrated care… getting rid of bad care from the bottom up?
Health Services Researcher Gemma Hughes writes about what the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee's Integrated Care Report adds to the discourse of integrated care, and what remains the same.
Being more specific about 'one-stop shops' for non-specific cancer symptoms
What are the new 'one-stop shops' for less obvious cancer symptoms, and how is this service being developed and evaluated in Oxfordshire? GP and Clinical Researcher Dr Brian D Nicholson, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, is part of the team who developed the region’s pilot site, one of ten across the country, and explains why understanding non-specific symptoms is important.
Yarnfulness: Engaging the public in research on well-being through craft
SPCR Research Fellow Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper and Health Psychology Researcher Dr Anne Ferrey write about an innovative public engagement project that sets out to investigate whether yarn-based crafting can improve health and wellbeing. The project recently received a University of Oxford Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund Award.
What makes a systematic review “complex”?
Kamal R. Mahtani, Tom Jefferson, and Carl Heneghan reflect on the lack of definitions, and propose a solution.
A view from The Hill
Sociologist Alex Rushforth, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, recently attended Oxford’s annual digital health pitching event, The Hill, for the first time. Here’s what he made of it.
It’s false to believe that antibiotic resistance is only a problem in hospitals – GP surgeries are seeing it too
Oliver Van Hecke, Chris Butler
20 April 2017
Clinical trials Health Services Research Infections & acute care
Dr Oliver van Hecke and Professor Chris Butler argue that antibiotic resistance applies to us all.
Who are the 'New Old'?
Part-time DPhil Student Gemma Hughes writes about conceptual technologies developed to support the next generation of older people.
The NHS is not in crisis - here's why
Professor Carl Heneghan writes in The Conversation.
Catching it early: netting the costs of earlier cancer diagnosis
Lucy Abel looks at the hidden costs of cancer diagnosis from a health economics perspective.
Virtues and vices in evidence based clinical practice
Professor Trish Greenhalgh explains how Aristotle can help explain how, why and to what extent clinical practice is evidence-based.