The latest updates on our primary care research and teaching.
Department awarded for sustainability efforts
14 June 2017
Sustainability Showcase salutes University’s green progress
Wellcome Trust PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians
16 March 2017
Applications are now open until 26 March 2017
The Radcliffe Infirmary Outpatients’ Building: restored for a new era of healthcare innovation
18 March 2016
Radcliffe Primary Care Building opens its doors to primary care researchers.
Reflections on Evidence Live 2015
20 April 2015
General Research methods & EBM
Evidence Live 2015 was a great success, attracting 320 delegates to Oxford to discuss the future of evidence-based medicine. Jack O'Sullivan reviews the two-day event.
Oxford UKCTAS team hold early-career researcher conference
27 June 2014
Dr Nicola Lindson-Hawley and Dr Rachna Begh led the recent UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS) early-career researcher conference in Leeds this month.
CEBM holds first workshop in Lithuania
29 April 2013
250-member audience learn more about the theory and practice of EBM
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
Websites You Can't Live Without - www.healthtalkonline.org
31 January 2013
www.healthtalkonline.org listed in The Times 50 Top Websites You Can't Live Without and ranked second in their top 5 health websites
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