Presentation at GP educator conference and bursary award for doctoral study on early cancer diagnosis

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Joseph Akanuwe, doctoral student at CaHRU, was recently invited to present a workshop with Dr Sharon Black (both pictured below) at a regional primary educator’s conference organised by Health Education East Midlands at the Eastgate Hotel on 14 January 2016. Continue reading Presentation at GP educator conference and bursary award for doctoral study on early cancer diagnosis

New study by Jolien Vos from CaHRU on recording sexual health information in primary care

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Prevention through identifying risk factors and health promotion to address these is becoming standard practice, for example in programs supporting patients to stop smoking. However, some risk factors such as sexual behaviour, cannot be easily assessed, are more difficult to measure Continue reading New study by Jolien Vos from CaHRU on recording sexual health information in primary care

CaHRU’s REST project features in Health Foundation’s stories of outstanding impact in primary care

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The Resources for Effective Sleep Treatment (REST) project featured in the Health Foundation’s recent newsletter, ‘Stories of outstanding impact in primary care‘. The REST project is an ongoing area of research within the Quality and Outcomes in Primary Healthcare group Continue reading CaHRU’s REST project features in Health Foundation’s stories of outstanding impact in primary care

Improvement science and research methods seminar on discourse analysis given by Michael Toze

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[su_document url=”https://communityandhealth.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/files/2015/06/Toze-Discourse-Analysis.pdf” responsive=”no”]Multi-morbidity, goal-oriented care, the community and equity[/su_document] The latest ‘Improvement science and research methods seminar’ on ‘Discourse analysis’ was delivered by Michael Toze, doctoral student at CaHRU. Discourse analysis aims to study the use of oral and textual Continue reading Improvement science and research methods seminar on discourse analysis given by Michael Toze

New systematic review published on interventions to reduce risk of overweight and obesity in infancy and childhood

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A new study has been published by led by Prof Sarah Redsell of Anglia Ruskin University and a team of researchers at the Universities of Cambridge, Nottingham and Lincoln, including Prof Niro Siriwardena of CaHRU. The study, published in Maternal Continue reading New systematic review published on interventions to reduce risk of overweight and obesity in infancy and childhood