August 2021

A busy start to Phase IV of the SPCR

The last 4 months has seen a busy start to Phase IV of the SPCR, under the new directorship of Prof Christian Mallen.

We have recruited the first of our Post-Doctoral Fellowships and our GP Career Progression (GPCP) Fellowships. The standard, as always, was very high and we are pleased to say that we will be welcoming 8 Post-Doctoral Fellows and 5 GPCP Fellows from October.

In addition to our Fellowships, we have also held our first two funding rounds. Funding round 1, which is an internal funding round, saw £1.3million of funding awarded over 34 projects across our 9 members. Funding round 2, a competitive-collaborative round, saw £3.2million awarded to 8 projects. This funding round encourages collaboration across the SPCR.

You can read more about our renewed funding and our Business Plan and Capacity Development Plan on the SPCR website.

Help to shape the SPCR PPIE Strategy

Researchers from any career stage, based at one of the School’s members, with an interest in Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE), are invited to contribute to the SPCR PPIE strategy!

During themed conversations small groups of researchers, PPIE professionals and public contributors will be brought together to discuss what the SPCR’s PPIE ambitions should be and what the School should do to turn those ambitions into reality. Each session will be facilitated by the School’s PPIE Manager.

If you are interested in joining the conversation, or require more information, please contact Esther at e.van.vliet@keele.ac.uk

Session Title	Date and Time
Involvement within the School’s work and activities	24 August (13.00 - 15.00) or 1 Sept (11.30 - 13.30)
Develop PPIE skills and knowledge	25 August (10.30 - 12.30)
Enable, identify and share best PPIE practice	27 August (14.00 - 16.00)

Professor Lucy Chappell begins role as NIHR Chief Executive

Professor Lucy Chappell has taken up her new post as Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health Research.

Professor Chappell - an NIHR Research Professor in Obstetrics working at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London – will lead the NIHR as part of her wider role as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care. She takes over leadership of the NIHR from Professor Chris Whitty and will report to him in his capacity as Chief Medical Officer for England.

Read more about Professor Chappell's appointment.

Collections: Primary care conversations

NIHR CED has published a new collection of evidence on primary care conversations. Brief conversations in primary care: an opportunity to boost health offers advice to primary care staff on how to maximise the impact of each encounter. Primary care consultations can provide a golden opportunity to address public health issues such as obesity, smoking, alcohol, and mental health. The research suggests that patients appreciate a discussion on broader health issues, and no topic need be out of bounds. This collection offers tips on the specific words and phrases to use, to maximise the impact of these conversations.

Become a reviewer for NIHR Evidence

Help us decide what we share. We are looking for health and social care professionals as well as patients, carers and the public to provide reviews on recently published, NIHR-funded research. Your views will help us determine the importance of the research findings and guide us on what evidence should be disseminated. Read more

Young people’s experiences of general practice care for self-harm

A new study has been published in BJGP on young people’s experiences of general practice for self-harm. Self-harm in young people is a national priority and young people consult GPs the most often for self-harm in the NHS.

Dr Faraz Mughal, previous NIHR SPCR GP Career Progression Fellow, and a current NIHR Doctoral Fellow from Keele University’s School of Medicine, led a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with young people aged 19-25 around England, to explore their help-seeking behaviours, experiences of GP care, and access to general practice care for self-harm. A patient and public involvement advisory group informed all stages of the study.

You can read more about this study and Dr Mughal's NIHR Doctoral Fellowship to develop and test a GP delivered intervention to reduce self-harm in young people, on our website

Our congratulations are also extended to Dr Mughal, on recently being named as a Fellow of the RCGP. He was nominated in recognition of his significant contribution to general practice and and his commitment to primary care research, which is currently focused on self-harm, suicide prevention, and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

Training for involvement and engagement

Visit the SPCR website to view the training that is available for involvement and engagement.

Not only will you find details of online training opportunities nationally, internationally and online, which are open for researchers from all institutes; you will also find recorded training that is available to access at a time to suit you.

A Health Econometrics and Policy Evaluation short course is being run by the Nuffield Department of Primary Care at Oxford University:
4th-6th October 2021.

This online course will serve as an introduction to some of the concepts and principles in the economics of health and health care and will provide an in-depth understanding of some tools usually used by health economists to study health policy issues. Econometric techniques that are used to evaluate public health interventions and policy will be explained. Consideration is given to standard regression-based approaches, instrumental methods, interrupted time series, difference-in-difference analysis, and matching methods for health data using statistical packages.

Click here to find out more

Blogs

“Ethnography who?” Co-designing training for ethnographic research for people with learning disabilities and family carers
Angeli Vaid explains how training materials were co produced by a team of academics family carers, self-advocates and a support worker.

SPCR internships and the power of the student voice
Dr Christine Johnson, University of Nottingham, reflects on how an SPCR internship was used to create a workshop for medical students.

How to become an academic GP and the issues around research
An interview with Dr Dipesh Gopel by Dr Sonia Tsukagoshi.

SAPC North - Sustainability and success of primary care

Save the date - Thursday 11th November 2021

This year's conference will be held virtually and hosted by Keele University. The abstract submission deadline is Monday 20th September 2021 - click here to download the submission form

Take a look at our revamped website to find out more about how WiseGP is championing the knowledge work of everyday clinical practice.

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