Identification of challenges to implementation of infection control guidance in primary care during COVID-19 incidents: Lessons for pandemic planning Despite service delivery modifications to minimise transmission in primary care during the pandemic, 609 COVID-19 incidents linked to English general …

The research was led by Dr Lorna Duncan and published in Public Health.

👉Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The study, funded by @ebibristol.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, analysed all COVID‑19 incidents reported to @ukhsa.bsky.social in South West England between March 2020 and April 2022 that were linked to general practice settings.

2026: Most COVID-19 cases linked to general practices | Centre for Academic Primary Care | University of Bristol

Most COVID-19 cases linked to general practices during the pandemic were among staff, new study finds.

Challenges in infection control highlight the need for tailored guidance and improved infrastructure in future pandemics.

👉Read the news: tinyurl.com/mr3wy4c9

#GPSky #PrimaryCare #COVID19

Involving community members alongside healthcare professionals and easier access could boost vaccine uptake Extending vaccination opportunities, involving community members alongside healthcare professionals in communicating about vaccines, and providing financial incentives are among the most effective way...

📰News!📰 Extending vaccination opportunities, involving the community alongside healthcare professionals in vaccine communication & providing financial incentives are among the most effective ways to increase vaccine uptake, an analysis of international trial evidence has found. tinyurl.com/j8wmhsxz

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word: Doing Death Differently Matthew Bannister looks at the changing nature of the way we memorialise our dead.

Lucy also advised on the series. For all episodes as they become available, see:

👉https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v9d9

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#death #dying #grief #bereavement

Last Word: Doing Death Differently - Shall we talk about death? - BBC Sounds Matthew Bannister on changing attitudes to dying, death and how we memorialise our dead.

This first episode of a new series on 'Doing Death Differently' hosted by @matthewbannister.bsky.social (Last Word, BBC Radio 4) includes an interview with @lucyselman.bsky.social.

The episode explores how attitudes to death, dying & memorialising have changed. 📻

👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Read all about our community network meeting in Weston-super-Mare last month which included speakers from BNSSG ICB, VANS and Super Culture as well as a fun zine-making session coastalcch.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/news/#Fourth...
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Excited to be attending the launch of the UK national allergy strategy this evening, at the start of Allergy awareness week #AAW26 @capcbristol.bsky.social @skinandallergy.bsky.social

Very pleased to share PEOLC group member Emma Gilbert's new paper published in the International Journal of Prison Health
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CLOSING THIS WEEK: SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed by an SPCR member to apply. 🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00 🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026 Apply now 👇 bit.ly/41fiPUQ #Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

CLOSING THIS WEEK: SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed by an SPCR member to apply.

🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00
🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026

Apply now 👇
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#Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

Only four blood tests (eGFR, HbA1c, potassium, sodium) were found to be supported by evidence of benefit for monitoring adults with #Hypertension; implementing these recommendations could reduce harms caused by overtesting doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @capcbristol.bsky.social @drjessicawatson.bsky.social

Tackling polypharmacy in primary care: Reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial webinar Polypharmacy (taking five or more medications) is a major challenge facing primary care today, with implications for patient safety, treatment burden, and NHS resources. Yet there is limited high-quality evidence to guide how best to manage it in everyday practice. The Improving Medicines use in People with Polypharmacy in Primary Care (IMPPP) trial evaluated a complex, general practice-based intervention designed to reduce potentially inappropriate prescribing and improve medicines use for people living with polypharmacy. In this webinar, members of the IMPPP research team will share key findings from the trial, what worked and the challenges experienced, and how these lessons can inform future practice, service design and policy. This webinar is for everyone involved in the care of people with polypharmacy in primary care, including patients, primary care practitioners, commissioners, policy makers and researchers. Contributors: Dr Jenny Scott, Senior Lecturer & Pharmacist, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol (Chair) Dr Deborah McCahon, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Bristol Professor Rupert Payne, Professor of Primary Care & Clinical Pharmacology, Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, University of Exeter

The recording of our webinar 'Tackling polypharmacy in primary care: Reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial' is now available!

Contributors: @jscottuob.bsky.social (Chair), Deborah McCahon & Rupert Payne.

Watch: tinyurl.com/p9pw7zy9

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#GPSky #PharmSky

Applications open for @nihrspcr.bsky.social funded Nursing Commercial Research Fellowships 2026.📢

Fellows will gain skills in commercial research delivery, academic development, strategic systems working & cross‑sector collaboration.

📆Closes: 30 April

👉 tinyurl.com/3ha4wsp4

#GPSky #Nursing

📢Hold the date!📢 South West Co-production in Health Research Conference 2026.

Theme: Making Research Matter: Trauma-informed ways of working together

📆25 November 2026
⏰9.30am-4.15pm
🏣Engineer's House, Bristol

Call for Ideas deadline: 1 June 2026

Details: tinyurl.com/yw8jez2j

#Coproduction

Rethinking ‘Capacity Building’ in Coastal Communities. What if the goal is not just building capacity, but building communities? Latest blog here
coastalcch.bristol.ac.uk/news/#From_W...
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FREE Public Collaborator Training: Reviewing Plain English Summaries (or Lay Summaries) Thursday, 21 May 2026, 1pm to 2.30pm Aimed at members of the public who would like to contribute to the research process: bit.ly/4bTVYEq #PPIE #PPI #Training #PrimaryCare #Research @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

FREE Public Collaborator Training: Reviewing Plain English Summaries (or Lay Summaries) Thursday, 21 May 2026, 1pm to 2.30pm

Aimed at members of the public who would like to contribute to the research process: bit.ly/4bTVYEq

#PPIE #PPI #Training #PrimaryCare #Research
@oxprimarycare.bsky.social

Many congratulations all! 🎉

Check out this fantastic resource from @nihrspcr.bsky.social to support public collaborators in research. ⬇️

'Doctors' freedom of speech must be protected from punitive scrutiny' - Opinion article by Rubin Minhas, Nick Maynard, Iain Chalmers & Gene Feder published in @bmj.com today.

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The British Association for Psychopharmacology @bapsych.bsky.social has released updated guidelines for treating substance dependence.

Developed by an international panel of experts, including CAPC colleague @jscottuob.bsky.social, they cover a wide range of substances.

👉 tinyurl.com/4wb9y8d3

In September 2025, CAPC colleague @jscottuob.bsky.social travelled to Jordan for a two-day workshop on the role of pharmacies & pharmacists in substance use disorders in Jordan.

In this @cbrl.bsky.social podcast, Jenny & Shatha Mubaideen reflect on key learning.

Info & link in thread. ⬇️

#pharmsky

SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship is now REOPEN – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed by an SPCR member to apply. 🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00 🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026 Apply now 👇 bit.ly/41fiPUQ #Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship is now REOPEN – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed
by an SPCR member to apply.

🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00
🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026

Apply now 👇
bit.ly/41fiPUQ

#Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship is now REOPEN – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed by an SPCR member to apply. 🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00 🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026 Apply now 👇 bit.ly/41fiPUQ #Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

SPCR Post-Doctoral Fellowship is now REOPEN – exclusively for University of Bristol. Applicants do not need to be employed
by an SPCR member to apply.

🗓 Deadline: 15 April 2026, 15:00
🚀 Start by: 1 October 2026

Apply now 👇
bit.ly/41fiPUQ

#Postdoctoralfellowship #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research

Left to right: Professor Jeremy Tavaré (University of Bristol), Professor Lucy Selman (University of Bristol) and Professor Fliss Murtagh (Hull York Medical School) in Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol on the occasion of Professor Selman's Inaugural Lecture, 24 March 2026.

Many congratulations to Prof @lucyselman.bsky.social (centre) on a wonderful Inaugural Lecture at @bristoluni.bsky.social yesterday. 🎉

Lucy's inspirational talk took us through 20 years of her fascinating and wide-ranging careeer focused on palliative & end-of-life care and bereavement research.

Register (free) – Tackling polypharmacy in primary care - reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial Tackling polypharmacy in primary care - reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial, Wed 25 Mar 2026 - Polypharmacy (taking five or more medications) is a major challenge facing primary care ...

Looking forward to our webinar on 'Tackling polypharmacy in primary care: Reflecting on learning from the IMPPP trial' later today (25 March 2026, 1-2pm). 👀

There is still time for last minute registrations (just!).

👉 tinyurl.com/2s4e4y3w

#capcwebinar

BRMS Inaugural Lecture - Lucy YouTube video by South West Film

Livestream link: www.youtube.com/live/0uuzzGb...

Coming up: Lucy Selman Inaugural Lecture

📆24 March 2026, 5-7pm

'Vulnerability as Strength: A Journey in Palliative Care and Bereavement Research'

Fantastic that those who can't be there in person can join via LiveStream. 🎉

Details & livestream link: ⬇️

#PalliativeCare #EndofLifeCare #Bereavement

Just 2️⃣ more days to register for our next webinar:

'Tackling polypharmacy in primary care: Reflecting on learning from the IMPPP clinical trial'. 💊💊

25 March 2026, 1-2pm ⬇️

A fantastic morning in Weston last week at our community meeting discussing the community chest fund, creative health board and plans for Good Grief Weston, finishing off with some zine-ing with Zara from Weston Artspace
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that online consultation tools shouldn’t be mandatory as the first step to access GP care, according to an NIHR SPCR-funded study (grant 598): https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/online-consultation-tools-should-not-be-a-mandatory-first-step-to-access-primary-mental-healthcare #SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research @capcbristol.bsky.social

Researchers at the University of Bristol have found that online consultation tools shouldn’t be mandatory as the first step to access GP care, according to an NIHR SPCR-funded study (grant 598): www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/online-...

#SPCR #PrimaryCare #Research
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