One day until #SAPC2024 📆 I’ll presenting “The benefits and challenges of remote consulting for anxiety and depression” on Thursday 📞 and “Why do GPs prescribe beta-blockers for anxiety disorders?” on Friday 💊 CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 SAPC Incubator for Mental Health Research

An inspiring start to #SAPC2024 with Frances Mair and Victor Montori, MD 💙 in University of Bristol Wills Memorial building CAPC, Bristol SAPC

“Why didn’t you just…” a brilliant #SAPC24 workshop for early career academics 🌱 delivered by Richard Ma PhD 馬富文 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 🍉 Rebecca Morris and Sharon Dixon ⭐️ CAPC, Bristol SAPC

Wrapping up day one at #SAPC2024 with a fun singalong to the ECR version of ‘my favourite things’ with my “conference chums” led by Richard Ma PhD 馬富文 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 🍉 🎤 CAPC, Bristol

Day 2 of #SAPC2024 during the Mental Health session with Amy Coe presenting “antidepressant describing: what, who, how and why” 💊 🧠 CAPC, Bristol

And Keele University 🐿️’s Tamsin Fisher presenting help seeking interventions for anxiety and depression in older adults TamsinFisherResearch CAPC, Bristol 👵🏻👴🏽

Our final mental health session of #SAPC2024 with Daniela Strelchuk presenting work on using algorithms to predict risk of psychosis 💻 🧠 💡 CAPC, Bristol

Our Primary Care Clinicians #PhD programme is open for applications. Applicable to #PrimaryCare #clinicians incl. GPs, nurses, health visitors, dentists, pharmacists & optometrists: bit.ly/SPCR-PHDPCC 🗓️Closing Date: 11.59pm 12 Dec 2024 NIHR School for Primary Care Research Wellcome SAPC

Public contributor Louise Ting is the brains behind the wildly successful diagram outlining how patient and public involvement (#PPI) can be woven into every stage of the research cycle. In this blog she describes how it's taken on a life of its own bit.ly/3MBj2KV

Our systematic review & meta-analysis of beta-blockers for anxiety found no evidence for a beneficial effect. BUT studies had small sample sizes, missing data & high/unclear risk of bias ⁦⁦Katrina Turner 💙⁩ ⁦@Calddee⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Charlotte Archer Katrina Turner 💙 ProfessorCarolynCG CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 Listen to the audio interview with Dr Charlotte Archer on when and why GPs prescribe #BetaBlockers for #Anxiety bjgplife.com/183 Charlotte Archer Katrina Turner 💙 ProfessorCarolynCG CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 #PrimaryCare

Published in the latest issue of The British Journal of General Practice - prescribing benzodiazepines in young adults with anxiety - patient-driven reasons for prescribing suggests young adults with anxiety may have unmet management/support needs bjgp.org/content/74/748… CAPC, Bristol Katrina Turner 💙 ProfessorCarolynCG

Mental Health Fellowship award holder Ruth Naughton-Doe shares a video called 'Where is the village that was promised?' that focuses on perinatal loneliness: bit.ly/3YSpHY8 Claire Ashmore Dr Georgina Fletcher @pn_loneliness @ruthndwrites

Why do GPs prescribe #benzodiazepines in young adults with #anxiety? Charlotte Archer has been asking GPs their views. Read about her findings in this new blog post: capcbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/11/04/why… Read the The British Journal of General Practice paper: bjgp.org/content/74/748… #MentalHealth #PrimaryCare #YoungPeople

Looking forward to working on this Medical Research Foundation funded research project looking the combined use of propranolol+antidepressants led by Dr Hayley Gorton 💊CAPC, Bristol NHS BNSSG ICB Clinical Effectiveness & Research 💙 Anxiety UK 🧠

I’ve finally made the move to Bluesky 🦋

We interviewed 41 patients & practitioners about remote consulting for mental health 📱 💻 📞 In-person appointments are important for initial help seeking ⭐️ Remote modes may not be more cost/time-efficient ⏰ We need to evaluate existing training 🌱 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…