Congratulations to Danielle Nimmons & colleagues on a great new paper published in the BMJ 🎉 The authors propose rebuilding clinical academia for the next generation to secure a sustainable and equitable clinical academic workforce 🏗️ Please see the paper here 👉 doi.org/10.1136/bmj-...

Are you an early to mid-career researcher or postgraduate student interested in learning more about implementation research❓ Join our new 3-day face-to-face course: 📆 Wed 30th Sep to Fri 2nd Oct Further details in poster attached 👇 If you wish to register, please contact: LUCID@leeds.ac.uk

Well done on this new paper by a team of researchers in our Division of Primary Care! 🎉 They compared combined email and paper vs. email-only feedback in promoting safer asthma prescribing at practices. Read here 👉https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/13/1/e003601

Sarah Alderson@imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Led by Dr Owen Thomas, we answered a simple question on whether the ICB should continue posting paper feedback in addition to sending feedback by email on achievement in asthma guideline care and greener inhaler prescriptions 🫁 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

Very happy to see our first very efficient CLEAR-AIR RCT in our evolving @wy-icb-research.bsky.social Learning Health System published 👇 #LearningHealthSystem #ImpSci #ImplementationScience #AuditandFeedback #greeneroractice bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/13/1...

**** Reminder to register **** Early Bird rates end Friday 8th May — don’t miss your chance to secure your place at a reduced rate. Book here : sapc.ac.uk/conference/s... SAPC ASM 24th - 26th 2026, University of St Andrews.

NEW PAPER: Our decision-modelling study showed specialist palliative care in England (home and hospital) saved £817M, freed 1.5M hospital bed days, helped 20,000+ people die outside hospital and improved quality of life. #palliativecare #palliativemedicine

Very happy to be in Zurich discussing new developments in implementation science. I will be sharing our ongoing work on the Impact of an Intervention on Inequalities in Overprescribing - the 3i-o study tomorrow. #IMPACT2026 #ImpSci @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social

Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care (IfIS) UZH@uzh-ifisuzhch.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚀 We’re officially underway! The 4th Swiss Implementation Science Conference «True IMPACT – Delivering Innovation for Patients and the Public» has just opened at the @uzh-ch.bsky.social. We’re excited to kick off two days of exchange, learning and collaboration. #IMPACT2026 @rahelnaef.bsky.social

📢 The protocol for APPROACH RCT is available now! Read it here ➡ www.researchprotocols.org/2026/1/e77096 APPROACH trial aims to evaluate a mobile app for promoting physical activity in patients with breast, prostate, or colorectal cancer. Congrats @drfionarkennedy.bsky.social & APPROACH team! ⭐

An App-Based Behavioral Support Intervention Promoting Physical Activity (APPROACH) in Patients Diagnosed With Breast, Prostate, or Colorectal Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Background: Strong evidence highlights that sufficient physical activity (PA) has multiple benefits for people living with and beyond cancer. However, many are not meeting PA recommendations. APPROACH...

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NEW PAPER People from minority ethnic groups face inequities in palliative and end-of-life care, yet research methods often fail to capture them. We worked with patients, carers, clinicians, and researchers to develop 13 principles for better research on ethnicity in palliative care. #palliativecare

Happy New Year A reminder that submissions are open until 23rd January. To submit, please click here: sapc.ac.uk/conference/s... We look forward to receiving your abstract and seeing you St. Andrews University

New paper alert! 🚨 Yorkshire Cancer Research Bowel Cancer Improvement Programme (YCRBCIP) conducted a rigorous consensus process with clinicians and patients to develop quality indicators to support opioid stewardship for patients undergoing bowel cancer surgery 👇 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...

Our toolkit 🧰 contains resources for hospitals, healthcare professionals and patients to support implementation and is available to all - please share! ycrbcip.leeds.ac.uk/ycrbcip-reso... @hannahrossington.bsky.social @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

Our new study in The British Journal of Cancer shows ethnic inequalities in opioid prescribing for cancer pain at the end of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see our study featured in @the-independent.com Our study shows ethnic inequalities in opioid prescribing for cancer pain at the end of life. Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

… [2/2] 🧑‍⚕️However, we found that primary care prescribers also need systematized creatinine clearance calculation in electronic health records for easy coding to further improve patient safety & reduce harms from medicines in older age 🩺 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social

📣 New paper published❗️ 🫘We know kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm of many medicines 💊 📉 We showed that providing feedback to primary care on prescribing in reduced kidney function is both feasible and acceptable 😀… [1/2] 📖 Read more here 👇 doi.org/10.1093/famp...

Creatinine clearance, reduced kidney function, and optimizing prescribing safety through practice feedback: a mixed methods study

AbstractBackground. Kidney function declines with age, increasing risk of harm from raised blood levels of many medicines. Prescribing is often inappropria

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Congrats to @robbiefoy.bsky.social, @imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social, @bethancopsey.bsky.social and Paul and Stella from @wy-icb-research.bsky.social on their new commentary in BMJ Open Quality: 'What should a learning health system look like?' 🤔 Read here 👇 bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/14/3...

What should a learning health system look like?

Learning health systems have been defined as “a team, provider or group of providers in the health and care system that, working with a community of stakeholders, has developed the ability to learn fr...

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Sarah Alderson@imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social · last yr.

🙋 New paper alert! 📣 🤔 How do you define a Learning Health System? We argue that the definition should include integrated rigorous effectiveness evaluations as a criterion👇 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social @wy-icb-research.bsky.social @bethancopsey.bsky.social @complexleedsctru.bsky.social

A great research snapshot by Dr Qandeel Shah on how she obtained rich and informative data using rapid ethnography in her PhD within a limited timeframe 👇 #ImpSci #ResearchMethods youtu.be/RczeobLmntE?...

Improvement Science Snapshot- Rapid Ethnography

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📢Can't wait till our next issue? Stay connected with The Lancet Primary Care’s Update Alerts! Receive curated content, exclusive features, and more delivered straight to your inbox in between issues. Sign up today! hubs.li/Q03BhmQt0 #medsky #familymedicinesky #internalmedicinesky

Congratulations to Noah Ivers and Robbie Foy on their new publication 📣 Everything you always wanted to know about audit and feedback but were afraid to ask… now published: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change

Cambridge Core - Medicine: General Interest - Audit, Feedback, and Behaviour Change

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Fern Harvey’s fab poster presentation of her systematic review on process evaluations for complex intervention trials. Better reporting of context, mechanisms of action and fidelity would enable greater learning about successful interventions #ImpSci #EIE2025 @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

Excellent article! 👏 @kellylloyd.bsky.social @imp-sci-saraha.bsky.social Although UK centric, this 👉"Lack of knowledge among healthcare professionals on Lynch syndrome is a barrier to patients accessing preventive care," is an issue in most healthcare systems? #HereditaryGICancer

Kevin Monahan@kevinmonahan.bsky.social · last yr.

Primary care: the ‘linchpin’ in Lynch syndrome @bjgp.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/75/7...

New editorial alert! 🚨 Primary care: the ‘linchpin’ in Lynch syndrome Why and how to identify the small number of patients in a practice that can lead to big reductions in cancer risk 👍 By @kellylloyd.bsky.social & me. @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Primary care: the ‘linchpin’ in Lynch syndrome

Hereditary cancer syndromes are inherited conditions which increase the lifetime risk of a person developing one or more cancers. These are complex conditions typically managed by a multidisciplinary ...

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🎉Excited to announce the launch of the PACT Impact report. Huge thanks to all the PACT members who have contributed @gppact.bsky.social @dipeshgopal.bsky.social www.gppact.org/news/pact-im...

PACT Impact Report 2019-2024 launched! — Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT)

We are delighted to announce that our first Impact Report , covering the period 2019-2024, has just been published on our website. You can view and download it here . A big thank you to everyone...

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New research to support a thriving health and care workforce has been launched. The NIHR-funded Same Day and Urgent Care (SURGE) Workforce Research Partnership is led by @chcr-uwe.bsky.social & a collaboration with CAPC + 7 other UK academic institutions/2 NHS Trusts. Find out more: bit.ly/4lmmKIf

New research to support a thriving health and care workforce is launched

A new national research partnership will explore ways to support wellbeing and sustainability in the NHS and social care same day and urgent care workforce. Funded by the National Institute for Health...

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Hot off the press 📣 New paper from Gemma Ashwell, researcher and GP in LIHS, and colleagues on caring for patients experiencing homeless in the BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Caring for patients experiencing homelessness

### What you need to know There has been a worldwide rise in homelessness over the past 10 years.1 On a single night in 2024 roughly 771 480 people in the United States were experiencing homelessness...

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It's with great pleasure that we congratulate Helen Edwards on winning the ASME/SAPC Education Prize 2024. 🌟🏆 Your passion for education shines through, and this award is a testament to you and your teams hard work. Congratulations, Helen! @au-primarycareuol.bsky.social

Event that may be of interest 🌟👇 Navigating the Future of Assisted Dying Legislation in the UK 🗓️Wednesday 9 April ⏰13:00 – 14:30 🗨️Dr Nataly Papadopoulou & Professor Nancy Preston More info 👇 pcrs.org.uk/events/pcrs-... This webinar is FREE for PCRS members

🎉Fantastic to see our update to the Cochrane review on Audit and Feedback in healthcare published! So much work went into this huge project by a worldwide team, expertly led by Noah Ivers 👏 A must read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of healthcare 👇 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice - Ivers, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library

Select your preferred language for Cochrane reviews and other content. Sections without translation will be in English.

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New guide to conducting personalised annual reviews for people with multiple long-term conditions published. The approach, developed by CAPC & @arc-west.bsky.social researchers, involves conducting a ‘whole-person’ review instead of individual disease-specific reviews. bit.ly/3FDiKTo #PrimaryCare

New guidance to help clinicians improve care for people with multiple long-term conditions

New guidance for primary care clinicians on how to conduct personalised annual reviews for patients with multiple long-term conditions has been developed by researchers from the Centre for Academic Pr...

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