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Supporting General Practice Careers at WMS
Whether you are just starting your medical career or already an established General Practitioner, Warwick Primary Care at Warwick Medical School can offer you some great support.
Whether you are just starting your medical career or already an established General Practitioner, Warwick Primary Care at Warwick Medical School can offer you some great support.
Warwick Medical School authors, Dr Helen Atherton, Dr Jo Parsons and Dr Carol Bryce looked at the rate of missed GP appointments in the UK. Their findings are published in the BJGP and Jo Parsons is also interviewed in a podcast discussing some of the findings and implications of this work.
Missed general practice appointments have considerable time and cost implications for the NHS, and leaves patients with unmet health needs, and potentially delayed diagnoses or medical treatment. This systematic review, entitled ‘Which patients miss appointments with general practice and the reasons why’ updated work conducted in 2003, and aimed to examine the rate of missed booked appointments, which patients are more likely to miss appointments, and some reasons for this. Findings of this review has potential implications for practices in targeting interventions to patients that are at increased likelihood of missing appointments, and in attempting to overcome common reasons that appointments are missed.
More information can be found on the GP Online webpages here.
A new study by our researchers has revealed that over 40% of GPs intend to leave general practice over the next five years - an increase of nearly a third since 2014.
A personalised online resource specifically for carers of older people in the UK has been launched by the University of Warwick.
It has been developed by primary care specialists and researchers at Warwick Medical School, GPs, the NHS and local authority managers, with very close involvement from Age UK Warwickshire and carers group, and funded by the NHS, Warwickshire County Council and Global Initiative's 100k Social Digital Fund.
Called Care Companion www.carecompanion.org.uk, it is being launched during national Carers Week 11-17 June 2018.
A delegation from Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health visited the University of Warwick on the 8th March to learn about healthcare in the UK and find out about how the NHS tackles population health within the NHS.
The realities of implementing alternatives to face-to-face GP consultations, such as telephone, email, online and video consultations, mean that hoped-for reductions in GP workload and increases in available appointments for patients might not be realised according to a study led by Helen Atherton of Warwick Medical School.
Head of Unit of Academic Primary Care
The Unit of Academic Primary Care is a large multidisciplinary team of primary care researchers and teachers with clinical, social science and behavioural science backgrounds. Through research, teaching and innovation our goal is to develop new interventions, evidence and practices. We aim to push boundaries, challenge assumptions, and create solutions that are sustainable and relevant to the needs of diverse ageing populations with growing numbers of patients with long term conditions and multi-morbidity. We work closely with individuals and teams across WMS and the wider university that have an interest in primary care education and research, including the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit.
You can see our Unit Strategy document here.Link opens in a new window
Assistant Professor Helen Atherton tells us about her research into how digital technology could improve the patient experience.
Find out about what other researchers at WMS are working on.
Helen McGowan - Research Projects Officer
Tel: 024 7615 1968
Email : h.mcgowan@warwick.ac.uk
CRN:West Midlands primary care covers Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. The team comprises GP champions, research nurses, research facilitators and others that facilitate research in a primary care setting within the area.