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Patients need better information on usefulness of blood tests finds new audit of UK primary care tests

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Paper:

Why test study: a UK-wide audit using the Primary Care Academic CollaboraTive to explore the reasons for primary care testing

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Disrupted access to healthcare during pandemic linked to avoidable hospital admissions

  • 20 Jul 2023
BMJ paper about avoidable hospital admissions as a result of the pandemic
Paper:

Associations between self-reported healthcare disruption due to covid-19 and avoidable hospital admission: evidence from seven linked longitudinal studies for England

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Tailoring co-production approaches for people who have experienced trauma: lessons learned from Bridging Gaps

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Paper:

Trauma-informed co-production: Collaborating and combining expertise to improve access to primary care with women with complex needs

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Improving maternity care – lessons from scaling up the PReCePT programme

Screenshot of the PReCePT Implementation Science paper
Paper:

Scaling up an intervention to protect preterm infants from neurodevelopmental disabilities — findings from a qualitative process evaluation comparing standard with enhanced quality improvement support packages for maternity units in England

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Being upfront about public involvement in a primary care study – publishing a PPI protocol

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Paper:

A proposal to embed patient and public involvement within qualitative data collection and analysis phases of a primary care based implementation study

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