Tag: primary care

BMJ blog from Stephen Peckham and NIHR colleagues: we need integrated public health function

Building back better for population health and wellbeing – NIHR Senior Investigators Public Health Interest Group. Professor Stephen Peckham joins other NIHR Senior Investigators in calling for a truly integrated public health function. The authors reflect on what direction public health should be taking in the UK, and urge current politicians  to learn from the …

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CHSS Newsletter Summer 2020

The Summer 2020 CHSS Newsletter is out now. This issue, written over the lockdown period, features latest CHSS research and news, including a look at the many varied media stories that the Centre team have been involved in shaping. Senior Clinical Research Fellow Lindsay Forbes who has been a frequent expert commentator on Coronavirus; is …

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Welcome Dr Natalia Gusak

CHSS welcomes Dr Natalia Gusak to the Centre until August from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine, funded by the Global Challenges Doctoral Centre. Natalia is Head of the School of Social Work Department. Her postdoctoral appointment will see her work with Professor Sally Kendall and Dr Olena Nizalova on the collaborative study exploring …

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CHSS Professor receives MBE at Buckingham Palace

Congratulations to Sally Kendall, who received her MBE on 31 January in recognition of 30 years of research in nursing and health visiting. As Professor of Community Nursing and Public Health she is renowned for practice-based research in the area of parenting and maternal and child health. Her parenting work is internationally recognised and implemented from Kent to Japan. …

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‘Women should not rely on breast screening’ – CHSS Snr Clin Res Fellow

CHSS Senior Clinical Research Fellow Dr Lindsay Forbes says failures like the one that led to 450,000 women missing breast cancer mammograms are rare but that anyone with breast symptoms should visit their GP promptly for investigation and not rely on screening. With anxious women inundating a breast cancer screening helpline, Lindsay says screening can …

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European Forum for Primary Care (EFPC) Symposium 2018: Integrating Primary and Community Care: an International Perspective

Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, 9am-5pm, Friday 2 March, 2018     Register now! #efpckent18 Strong primary care is the cornerstone of health systems across Europe.  This means that features including structure, access, coordination, continuity, and comprehensiveness can be observed and monitored and are part of health care policy. Increasingly it is recognised that integration between primary care …

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NEW! CHSS study – performance-related pay and care of those with long-term conditions

Offering general practices more money according to the number of people with long-term health conditions they treat, for example, with diabetes, cancer or dementia, does not lead to improved care, according to a study by Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent.The study, led by Dr Lindsay Forbes, Senior Clinical Research Fellow. …

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ICCHNR Symposium in full swing!

Day one of the ICCHNR Symposium has been a great success. Changing populations, changing needs; Directions and models for community orientated primary care has attracted more than 120 delegates and speakers from countries including Japan, Korea, Spain and Canada. They gathered at the University of Kent’s Grimond Lecture Theatre today to hear contributions from speakers across a …

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CHSS Open Lecture 6 October 2016

CHSS Open Lecture, 6pm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 Darwin Conference Suite, University of Kent, Canterbury We are delighted to announce our third CHSS Annual Open Lecture: ‘Remote video consultations: Expectation, hubris, hype and evidence’, by Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care Sciences, Nuffield Dept of Primary Healthcare Sciences, University of Oxford The lecture is preceded by a drinks reception …

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