New Evidence @BMJ_latest bit.ly/2lTAsJt 20% price increase on sugary snacks – biscuits, cakes, confectionery – estimated to reduce obesity in UK by 2.7 percentage points with greatest effects in poorer households and ones where the main shopper is obese @PHE_uk London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Our summary of differences and also similarities between UK and European guidelines... OxPrimaryCareSci

Prize-winning thesis by University Lecturer Anna Spathis tackles cancer-related fatigue amongst children and young adults: congratulations to Anna! phpc.cam.ac.uk/pcu/prize-winn… NIHR School for Primary Care Research Macmillan Cancer Support Shine Cancer Support Teenage Cancer Trust

Check out our latest paper led by Grace Turner rdcu.be/bZoUP Impact of #tia and #minorstroke Dr Christel McMullan 🎾 🇨🇵 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Robbie Foy Prof Jonathan Mant Dr Lou Atkins Stroke Association CPROR National Institute for Health and Care Research

Why ‘case finding’ is bad science - ⁦Margaret McCartney⁩ ⁦greg fell FFPH⁩, Sam Finnikin, Harriet Hunt, Mike McHugh, ⁦⁦Muir Gray⁩ - we need evidence before implementation, including for atrial fibrillation ⁦SAFER Trial⁩ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our new paper on the impact of NICE guidance on out-of-office BP measurement sneaked out just before Xmas. Bottom line is an increase in ABPM and HBPM without a big drop in incidence of HT or change in CVD events in the 5 years post 2011 guideline: ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

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The approach of clustering patients rather than diseases has led to more nuanced appreciation of what are the most important clusters for health services - eg 18 fold increase in mortality in 18-44 year olds with psychoactive substance misuse, alcoholism and depression..

Less is more? Our new trial suggests #deprescribing #bloodpressure lowering medications is safe in the short-term in older people with frailty and multimorbidity – see thread for details jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… #hypertension #RCT @richardjmcmanus @jenniaburt Marney Williams Prof Jonathan Mant

This is an important thread from James Sheppard with the main results from our OPTIMISE trial showing that short term deprescribing of antihypertensives in a frail population over 80 is possible. More details in JAMA today...

SAVE THE DATE! Our annual event, THIS Space, returns on 25 November 2020 as an entirely online event. Now more than ever, we need to connect and share across our research community, and we hope you’ll join us in November. ths.im/30Im35d

Our research into End-of-life prescribing during COVID-19 pandemic: major changes afoot! Bárbara Antunes Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge NIHR ARC East of England The Queen's Nursing Institute Prof Alison Leary 💙#ProtectNurse 🚀Hattie Taylor RN DN QN🌈 APM @IainDr NIHR School for Primary Care Research RCN District and Community Nursing Forum WeDistrictNurses WeEOLC Please share: spcare.bmj.com/content/early/…

1.Cardiovascular Disease remains our biggest cause of health inequalities. In February Dr. Tom Frieden gave a superb presentation on the topic. Each year our primary care professionals and public health professionals save thousands of lives by managing the risk factors. #ZeroCVD

The covid-19 pandemic’s broad effects on general practice and on community based reasearch.. nice piece rakesh modi SAFER Trial National Institute for Health and Care Research Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge

Great discussion with Martin Cowie, Prof Lis Neubeck and Prof Jonathan Mant about AF detection in 2020 - was delighted to be part of it. Register for #HRC2020 (free for HCPs) at bit.ly/HRC2020reg to see online from Sunday 27th Sept! Heart Rhythm Congress

Options for remote assessment of cardiovascular risk - here AF - will be very relevant as we try to control CVD in the context of COVID

A third forray into screening is about the capability and strategies for primary care in screening. What can we do and how? Presented RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference Royal College of General Practitioners #rcgpfa a protocol for a complex mixed studies review for a complex question. Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge With co authors from THIS Institute

And a culmination of our lessons on screening and AF, is our protocol for the largest trial ever of AF screening to finally answer whether it is worthwhile. Presented RCGP Annual Primary Care Conference Royal College of General Practitioners #rcgpfa SAFER Trial Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge

Research is a team effort - friends, funding and fora during the fray have resulted in our novel intervention to screen for AF NIHR School for Primary Care Research @NIHRcommunity Wellcome @jenniaburt Prof Jonathan Mant Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge DPHPC #wellcomephd SAFER: The complete works spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/blog/safe…

Factors influencing follow-up care after #TIA and #MinorStroke Find out more: rdcu.be/cHt8R Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research Mel Calvert Prof Jonathan Mant Ryc Aquino 🏃🏽‍♀️🧘🏽‍♀️🏋🏽‍♀️ Robbie Foy Dr Lou Atkins National Institute for Health and Care Research