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CaHRU gives QI workshop at East Midlands Quality Improvement Network meeting

EFPC-logo-4-k new versionEast Midlands Academic Health Science Network hosted the latest East Midlands Quality Improvement Network meeting at Trent Vineyard, Nottingham on 17 May 2017 to over 150 delegates. The network has grown from the East Midlands Quality Improvement, Research and Education (ENQuIRE) Network set up as part of the HEI Challenge project between 2015 and 2016, led by the University of Lincoln. There were over 150 attendees at the event chaired by Dr Cheryl Crocker.

 

qin2017There were key notes from Richard Taunt, founder of Kaleidoscope Health & Care on ‘Bridging the disconnect between research and practice’ and Paul O’Neill, director of the East Midlands Leadership Academy on ‘Leading for quality improvement’. This was followed by an inspirational talk from Emma Wiggs, four time gold medallist Paralympian on ‘Improving mindset – improving quality’.

Professor Siriwardena, director of CaHRU then co-led, with Prof Bryn Baxendale of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, a workshop session on Measurement of Quality Improvement. There were also workshops on human factors, safety and evaluation of QI projects.

QIlogoThe afternoon was devoted to a series of talks on Q, clinical audit and patient involvement in safety. The day ended with a discussion on next steps for the network.

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East Midlands Research Engaging Patients and the Public Event – CaHRU Masterclass on PPI in research in underserved communities

Staff from CaHRU contributed to the recent East Midlands Research Engaging Patients and the Public Event held on Thursday 23rd March 2017 at Leicester Diabetes Centre by giving a masterclass on patient and public involvement (PPI) in research. The event was designed for researchers and lay people interested in PPI supporting research addressing the needs of underserved and seldom heard communities. The event began with a keynote session Viet-Hai at REPP March 2017exploring the regional and local picture of PPI. This was followed by a number of masterclasses.

The masterclass run by staff from CaHRU was given by Dr Jo Middlemass (Research Fellow/Nurse) together with Ms Despina Laparidou (Research Assistant), Mr Viet-Hai Phung (Research Assistant) and Mrs Pauline Mountain, Independent Patient and Public Representative from the Healthier Ageing Patient and Public Involvement (HAPPI) group. The masterclass focussed on PPI with older people and ethnic minority groups. Pauline talked about her involvement in the HAPPI group and connectivity to other carers and related organisations. Viet-Hai spoke about his doctoral study on people from ethnic minority groups from Eastern European countries. Despina discussed reaching carers of people with dementia.

The session was well received by participants and contributed to the overall success of the event. The HAPPI group continue to support studies in primary and prehospital care involving CaHRU and collaborating academic institutions and NHS organisations.

By Jo Middlemass

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Joseph Akanuwe presents doctoral research on cancer detection at early diagnosis research conference

JosephJoseph Akanuwe, research assistant at CaHRU, recently attended the Cancer Research UK’s Fourth Biennial Early Diagnosis Research Conference on 23rd and 24th February 2017 in London. Joseph whose abstract was selected for a poster presentation was awarded a bursary to attend the conference. As part of an Early Career Researcher programme, Joseph was also invited to make a PechaKucha (3 minute) oral presentation of his work on early detection of cancer risk in primary care using QCancer, a novel cancer risk assessment tool.

crukedApart from providing an opportunity for Joseph to explain his work to other researchers, policy makers and practitioners with interest in early diagnosis of cancer, the conference included a wide range of speakers from various fields, with a potential for making a significant difference to the field of early diagnosis research and a positive impact for patients. The conference materials including posters, papers/abstracts, conference photos and film will soon be available at the Cancer Research UK website.

Overall, the conference presented an opportunity to share, learn, network and understand the latest developments in early diagnosis research.

By Joseph Akanuwe

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University of Lincoln hosts Society of Academic Primary Care Trent Regional Conference

The Community and Health Research Unit and University of Lincoln hosted this year’s Trent Regional SAPC Spring sapc_lincoln1Conference at the Hilton Doubletree Hotel on Brayford Wharf in Lincoln. The conference included delegates from the Universities of Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester and Sheffield and all over our region presenting and learning about the latest in primary care research and educational through orals, posters and workshops.

The conference keynote speakers were Chris Burton, Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care at the University of Sheffield, Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice at the University of Manchester and Navjoyt Ladher, clinical editor at The BMJ. The conference was chaired by Professor Niro Siriwardena, Professor of Primary and Prehospital Healthcare and opened by Professor Sara Owen, Pro Vice Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Science at the University of Lincoln. Prof Burton, new in post at Sheffield, gave the first keynote in place of Prof Nigel Mathers who was recovering from illness. Everyone wished Prof Mathers well for his convalescence and return to health.

Prof Owen’s opening talk focussed on the rapid development and expansion in science and health research and teaching at Lincoln. Chris Burton’s opening keynote focussed on ‘Complexity’, commonly used, misused and sapc_lincoln2misunderstood in healthcare and research. He described the mathematics of complexity as he had applied it in his research to issues such as frequent health service use and how these were described by ‘heavy-tailed’ or log-log distributions.

There followed a series of excellent morning oral presentations, workshops and posters. Before lunch, Prof Esmail gave another outstanding keynote, ‘The problem with patient safety – challenging orthodoxies’ He certainly did challenge the conventional approach to patient safety and described how conventional attempts to reduce harm, in particularly using a target-driven approach, could lead to poorer outcomes and how it was necessary, even important, to accept some risk for better outcomes.

After lunch and viewing of the excellent posters on display, we were treated to further oral presentations and another educational workshop. The meeting ended with our final keynote from Dr Navjoyt Ladher, clinical editor at the British sapc_lincoln3Medical Journal, who spoke eloquently about ‘Goldilocks medicine’ and the art of getting medicine right, particularly focussing on the harms of medicalisation and overtreatment. She went onto to talk about the editorial process at the BMJ, while encouraging primary care researchers to submit their studies to the journal.

The day ended with prizes awarded to the best poster, ‘Predictors of postpartum return to smoking: a systematic review’ by Sophie Orton, Tim Coleman, Tom Coleman-Haynes and Michael Ussher of Nottingham University, and the best oral presentation, which went to Michael Toze from CaHRU at the University of Lincoln for his doctoral research presentation, ‘Coming out in general practice: the experience of older LGBT patients’. Flowers, wine and a big vote of thanks went to Sue Bowler for her work organising the conference and making the day such a success, supported by the CaHRU team and members of staff from the other institutions involved.

By Niro Siriwardena

 

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Society for Academic Primary Care Trent Regional Conference – Research Challenging Practice – Lincoln 21 March 2017

SAPC 2017 poster FINAL flattenedWe look forward to welcoming colleagues to the beautiful city of Lincoln for the Trent Regional Spring Conference of the Society for Academic Primary Care. The meeting is being hosted by the University of Lincoln on 21 March 2017 at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln LN1 1YW.

Abstract submission is now closed and the conference programme will be available to download from the Community and Health Research Unit website www.cahru.org.uk by the end of January.

Our keynote speakers for 2017 are Nigel Mathers, Emeritus Professor of Primary Medical Care and previously Head of the Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care at the University of Sheffield, Aneez Esmail, Professor of General Practice at the University of Manchester and Navjoyt Ladher, a clinical editor at The BMJ.

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Nigel Mathers is Professor Emeritus at the University of Sheffield where he was head of the academic unit of primary care until 2016. His research interests have included diabetes prevention, the development of patient decision aids, shared decision making and the evaluation of complex interventions in primary care.

 

 

EsmailAneez Esmail is Professor of General Practice at the University of Manchester and Director of the NIHR Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. He has published work in several areas of public health including prevention of cot deaths, epidemiology of solvent abuse, preventing paediatric admissions, and the evaluation of telemedicine and patient safety.

N Ladher photoNavjoyt Ladher is a clinical editor at The BMJ. She heads the scholarly comment section of the journal, is editorial lead for The BMJ Awards, and – her favourite part of the job – is responsible for the BMJ Christmas issue.

 

 

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The venue for the Society of Academic Primary Care Conference is the Doubletree by Lincoln Hotel lincoln.doubletree.com located on Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln, LN1 1YW. The easiest way to travel to the conference is by rail. The Doubletree by Hilton is a short walk from the railway station in Lincoln, the route from the station to the Doubletree by Hilton is shown on the Lincoln City Centre map http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/maps/

If you are travelling by coach or minibus then we can arrange a drop off point and parking for the bus on the University Campus. Please e-mail Sue Bowler sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk to arrange this. The nearest car park to the venue is the Lucy Tower car park, Lucy Tower Street, Lincoln, LN1 1XL. The daily parking rate is £7.50. For more information about car parking in Lincoln please see https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/living-in-lincoln/transport-travel-and-parking/parking/car-park-information-prices-postcodes-and-discounts/

If you wish to stay overnight in Lincoln, the Doubletree Hilton will offer a special rate for delegates. Also, the Holiday Inn Express http://www.expresslincoln.co.uk/ is close by and has a University room rate. Please contact Sue Bowler sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk for details. Please book as soon as possible. For alternative accommodation visit the following website: http://www.stayinlincoln.co.uk/

To register please click here. For further information please e-mail sbowler@lincoln.ac.uk.