Excited to still be part of #InclusionHealth2024 Pathway youngest delegate?

"Identification of self-neglect is NOT dependent on mental capacity or addiction." - Incredibly powerful start to day 2 of the Pathway conference from Sam Dorney-Smith about safeguarding, & from Khosru Miah sharing his story & the work of The People's Recovery Project #Inclusionhealth2024

Yesterday we launched the Cancer & Domestic Abuse Toolkit with our partners Macmillan Cancer Support & University of Bristol to help healthcare professionals identify & respond to domestic abuse within the cancer context. Learn how to spot signs & put theory into practice: macmillan.org.uk/cancer-and-dom…

Changing #PrimaryCare services to better include patients with multiple disadvantage brought staff joy + increased connections with patients & community orgs. Paper in The British Journal of General Practice by Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky @MichelleCFarr et al. News: capcnews.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/04/04/imp… Paper: bjgp.org/content/early/…

Lots to learn from coproducing service changes with people with lived experience AND general practice teams. Potential for reducing inequalities and increasing joy in general practice- double win?!

Strategies in #PrimaryCare for patients with combinations of homelessness, substance misuse, violence, abuse, and poor mental health doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2… Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky @hmcgera @MichelleCFarr CAPC, Bristol NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West @one25charity Maria Carvalho da Silva #EquitableAccess #BridgingGaps

Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky Helen McGeown @MichelleCFarr CAPC, Bristol NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West @One25Charity Maria Carvalho da Silva Listen to the audio interview with Dr Lucy Potter on improving #PrimaryCare access for people with severe and multiple disadvantage bjgplife.com/160 Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky Helen McGeown @MichelleCFarr CAPC, Bristol NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West @one25charity Maria Carvalho da Silva #EquitableAccess #BridgingGaps

Great to see Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky speaking to The British Journal of General Practice about the #BridgingGaps project! The project team explored how to improve access to #PrimaryCare for patients with severe and multiple disadvantage. News tinyurl.com/3bn66pv2 Podcast tinyurl.com/4ss6e4fc

"I can’t imagine how hard it must be to trust anyone given what my patients have been through." In the second of a two-part series shadowing doctors working in the most deprived communities in Scotland I joined David Blane in his Glasgow practice. The complexity was overwhelming.

Great to see this recent paper by Lucy Potter- follow me on Bluesky & colleagues selected as Health Equity Evidence Centre's 'Paper of the Week'. Find out more about Lucy's study on improving access to healthcare for and with people with multiple disadvantage at capcnews.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/04/04/imp… @MichelleCFarr NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West

Today fantastic colleague @hussey_deb trained and prepped Glastonbury Festival first responders to carry naloxone. She also dropped off some of our Carry Naloxone Somerset posters. If you spot one on site please share a pic!

The analysis, authored by people involved in both projects, shares reflections on how to work with communities to co-produce services designed for them. Read the full paper here: bjgp.org/content/74/747…

We're really proud of our contribution to a paper published today in the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) on the use of co-production in tackling health inequalities in primary care. See below for more information and to read the paper. #coproduction #research

Tackling health inequalities with #primarycare and #livedexperience 👉 real life examples. What a lovely return from mat leave to see this published!

"Co-production is possible, but collaboration is key". Learn how 2 health inclusion projects, Bridging Gaps & Tackling Racial Inequalities in Health, approached working with people with lived experience to improve #PrimaryCare services. ➡️bristol.ac.uk/primaryhealthc… #Coproduction

Building trust, managing risks & establishing roles & boundaries were key, as were significant support, time, resource & expertise to enable safe participation. Read the full paper: bjgp.org/content/74/747… #HealthInequalities

.NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West’s Bridging Gaps project is improving GP access for people who have experienced trauma & have complex needs — with new specialist GP clinics, training for #NHS leaders to develop #trauma-informed care & more arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/news/impacts-o… 👉🏽#ARCimpacts #WorldMentalHealthDay

This #WorldMenopauseDay, GP & National Institute for Health and Care Research In-Practice Research Fellow Dr Yvette Pyne asks what needs to be done to ensure the #menopause & #perimenopause health needs of trans masculine & nonbinary people are met. Blog: capcbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/10/18/nav…