🔸What patient responses to weight management referrals in-consultation are associated with post-consultation action?🔸 Our #conversationanalysis paper- @LizStokoe Sue Ziebland OxPrimaryCareSci NIHR School for Primary Care Research - out today BJGP online first 👇 bjgp.org/content/early/…

Filnding and implementing evidence: Blessing Mawire is outlining the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework: bit.ly/2P0ePk8 #E4GDH #wlic2018

An in-depth explainer on polygenic risk scores vox.com/science-and-he… Vox by Brian Resnick

‘no safe level of alcohol’, but Lancet study means 25,000 light drinkers need annual equivalent of 400,000 bottles of gin for one serious health problem among them each year medium.com/wintoncentre/t…

There is really no need to contrast precision medicine with preventive medicine: Precision medicine can be more preventive, and preventive medicine can be more precise. Via JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

New open access article from our team in the Cancer Policy Research Centre Cancer Research UK Policy. JyotsnaVohra Dr Gillian Rosenberg Lucie Hooper: Clustering of behavioural risk factors for health in UK adults in 2016: a cross-sectional survey academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/adv…

SPOTLIGHT ON ... Juliet Usher-Smith | Extraordinary #behavioural #health #research testing whether the provision of risk information changes risk conviction immediately after the intervention & at a 3m follow up. Gorilla: Making #longitudinal research reality. gorilla.sc/spotlight/juli…

Fantastic opportunity for NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Cambridge: GP or geriatrician. Closes 9th October. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/18728/

"Although the goal of prediction is to improve decisions in each pt, paradoxically, ... this can be assessed only by examining whether more precise prediction improves outcomes at the population level." David M Kent Ewout Steyerberg The BMJ bmj.com/content/363/bm…

New study determines polygenic risk scores (PRS) for breast cancer, important predictors of risk that could improve screening and prevention. cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…

1/n This paper has been many years in the making both conceptually and in terms of the time to generate the data. It has been part of almost all my scientific life (or at least since I started my PhD). I thought I'd write the timeline down. bit.ly/2LfsYt1

Read about a medical student's journey through academic primary care with Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge in this blog from Rachel Fox Cambridge University phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/a-medical-…

When you talk about science, are you sure the words you are using don't mean something different to others? Here are five examples of scientific lingo to use with caution

Fantastic to see this PRC funded study from Antonis Antoniou highlighted in the press today bit.ly/2TL78As #PopulationResearch Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK

Accolade for Rachel Fox 4th yr medic SAPC conference Madingley Hall & Gardens last week: BEST NOVICE PRESENTER PRIZE for her work with PCU Prevention Group BeckyDennison01 Juliet Usher-Smith phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/sapc-award…

'Academic Primary Care: Optimising Impact' is the title of the next SAPC South East conference Madingley Hall & Gardens on 23/24 Jan 2020. Save the dates and see more about our plans for a sparkling #SAPCSE2020 phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/sapcse2020/ SAPC NIHR School for Primary Care Research

An excellent short piece by @CaitlinAllenMPH, Latrice Landry, Megan Roberts and other early career investigators defending the field of precision public health. Via The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Please retweet: Exciting PhD opportunities for our International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) member Centre tinyurl.com/y2k6xzg7 in public health and primary care and social sciences

Looking for opportunity to discuss your primary care related research? Submit an abstract to us to present at #SAPCSE2020 by 29/11 - the conference will be focused on optimising impact and we would love to hear from you phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/sapcse2020/ NIHR School for Primary Care Research SAPC