APEx Events

On behalf of APEx Seminar Series Team, we are delighted to announce our seminars:

2024 – Hybrid events

• Wednesday 28th February 2024Dr Sarah Bell

         Living dis/artfully: Disability, 'nature' and environmental change.

2023 – Hybrid events

• Wednesday 6th December 2023

         Professor John Campbell, Professor Gary Abel, Professor Helen Atherton (Warwick), Jon Sussex (RAND Europe, 

         Cambridge) and other colleagues from the Di-Facto team

        Supporting people in accessing and using NHS online services – digital facilitation in primary care.

• Wednesday 29^th November 2023

         Dr Ian Porter & Dr Kelly Thornber

         The Pharma Pollution Hub: finding solutions to reduce the environmental impact of medicines used in UK healthcare

         – Dr Kelly Thornber

         The OECD International Survey of People Living with Chronic Conditions (PaRIS Survey): development and evaluation of

         the patient questionnaire - Dr Ian Porter

• Wednesday 25th October 2023
  Professor Barney Dunn, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Exeter
  Innovating Psychological Therapies and Services in the mental health gap between primary and secondary care
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• Wednesday 5th July 2023
  COVID-19 and recorded cancer incidence in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink: an interrupted time series analysis
  Dr Sarah Price, Senior Research Fellow, University of Exeter
  
  Can we determine risk of cancer more accurately in symptomatic patients?
  Dr Sarah Moore, GP and Wellcome funded doctoral fellow, University of Exeter
  
  
• Wednesday 14 June 2023
  BRACE BRACE! Randomised trial of BCG vaccine to protect against Covid-19 in health workers
  Professor John Campbell - Professor of General Practice and Primary Care
  
  
• Friday 12th May
  What are we really measuring with well-validated, responsive and reproducible self-report quality-of-life measures in interventional studies?
  Professor Sheree Smith, PhD Director, Lung, Sleep and Heart Health Research Network, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University, Australia
  
  
• Wednesday 17th May 2023
  Too many medicines? Musings on prescribing in primary care.
  Professor Rupert Payne
  
  
• Wed 15th March 2023
  Initial findings from the SPOtting Cancer among Comorbidities (SPOCC) programme: mapping the disadvantages of multimorbidity in the cancer diagnostic process
  Professor Gary Abel, Dr Luke Mounce, Dr Bianca Wiering
  
  
• Wed 22nd Feb 2023
  Development of a new shared decision-making intervention 'VOLITION' for older people living with multiple long-term conditions and GPs
  Dr Jo Butterworth
  
  
• Thurs 2nd Feb 2023
  Going Back to the Future: Evolving holism of multiplicity
  Professor Umesh Kadam
  
  

2022 - Hybrid events

• Wed 9th Nov 2022
  Personalised modelling for Precision Healthcare
  Professor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
  
  
• Wed 12th Oct 2022
  Innovations and interventions for detecting cancer earlier
  Professor Richard Neal
  
  
• Wed 28th Sept 2022
  Precision rehabilitation in primary care research: past, present, future
  Professor Helen Dawes
  
  
• June 2022
  APEx SPCR Launch Event - Sandy Park
  
  
• Wed 30th March 2022
  Using patient/reported indicators of health system performance: development of the OECD PaRIS Survey for people with chronic conditions
  Professor Chema Valderas
  
  
• 10–11th March 2022
  SW SAPC 2022- HOSTED BY APEX ONLINE
  
  
• Wed 16th February 2022
  Exploring ethnic differences in primary care diagnosis of cancer
  Dr Tani Martins
  
  Delivery fidelity of the REACT (REtirement in ACTion) physical activity and behaviour maintenance intervention for community-dwelling older people with mobility limitations
  Dr Rosina Cross
  
  
• Wed 26th January 2022
  Preventing falls – what works?
  Professor Sallie Lamb
  
  

2021 - Online events 

• Wed 17th November 2021
  Parents and carers’ views and experiences of eczema in the online world: a mixed-methods exploration (PhD)
  Dr Bethan Treadgold
  
  Blood pressure in older people and evidence for a post-hypertension syndrome
  Dr Jane Masoli
  
  
• Wed 20th October 2021
  Research capability and capacity: update on the NIHR 70@70 programme & Supported self-management in Interstitial Lung Disease
  Dr Anne-Marie Russell
  
  
• Wed 22nd September 2021
  Whistle-stop tour of the SPCR
  Dr Georgina Fletcher & Prof John Campbell
  
  
• Wed 23rd June 2021
  Promoting Adherence to Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises for the prevention and treatment of incontinence – what could be done in primary care to support pelvic floor health for women across their life-course 
  Professor Sarah Dean 
  
  
• Wed 12th May 2021
  D:REACH-HF - Digitally adapting effective home-based cardiac rehabilitation for people living with heart failure
  Dr Sam van Beurden 
  
  REACT: Retirement in ACTion: A randomised controlled trial of a community-based physical activity intervention to prevent mobility-related disability for retired older people
  Dr Jess Bollen
  
  
• Wed 24th March 2021
  Magnetic resonance imaging for prostate cancer diagnosis in primary care
  Dr Sam Merriel
  
  The impact of reducing referral thresholds for urgent cancer investigation in England
  Dr Sarah Moore
  
  
• Wed 17th Feb 2021
  Inter-arm blood pressure difference: what have we learnt over 25 years?
  Dr Chris Clark
  
  

2020 - Online events 

• Wed 18th Nov 2020
  Reflections on 40 years in Research: From mice to NICE and beyond
  Prof David Halpin, Consultant Physician & Honorary Professor of Respiratory Medicine at The University of Exeter
  
  
• Wed 8th July 2020
  The SPOtting Cancer among Comorbidities (SPOCC) programme: Supporting clinical decision making in patients with symptoms of cancer and pre-existing conditions.
  Dr Gary Abel, Senior Lecturer & Statistician, Primary Care, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 11 March 2020
  Primary care as the foundation for sustainable health systems: Making choices matter for health and wellbeing
  Professor Albert Mulley, MD, MPP & Margaret Mulley, Dartmouth Institute, New Hampshire, USA
  
  
• Wednesday 15 January 2020
  A primary care response to frailty: mind the (evidence) gap
  Professor Sue Richards, Professor of Primary Care Research, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences
  
  

2019

• Wednesday 11 December 2019
  A new initiative: three journal articles up for discussion
  1. Zeraatkar et al led by Dr Chris Clark
  2. Minchin et al led by Professor John Campbell
  3. Bohren et al led by Dr Emma Pitchforth 
  
  
• Wednesday 27 November 2019
  Interventions for involving older patients with multimorbidity in decision-making during primary care consultations: A Cochrane systematic review
  Dr Jo Butterworth, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, UEMS
  
  Cardiac rehabilitation and physical activity levels in heart failure
  Grace Dibben, PhD student, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 16 October 2019
  Challenges for economic evaluation when doing research with people with learning disabilities: The OK Diabetes Study
  Professor Claire Hulme, Professor of Health Economics, University of Exeter Medical School
  
  
• Wednesday 18 Sept 2019
  Physical activity and serious mental health conditions: evidence, mechanisms and implementation
  Dr Brendon Stubbs, Head of Physiotherapy, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation trust and a clinical lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London
  
  
• Monday 3 June 2019
  Women’s health in Ethiopia: doing more for women with pelvic floor disorders
  Dr Zelalem Mengistu, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Urogynaecologist, University of Gondar, Ethiopia AND
  Dr Emma Pitchforth, Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care
  
  
• Wednesday 15 May 2019
  The Low Back Pain in General Practice randomised trial and implementation study
  Dr Ben Darlow, Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand
  
  Identifying persons with multimorbidity who are most in need of proactive person-centred care in general practice
  Dr Mieke Rijken, Senior Researcher, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL)
  
  
• Tuesday 2 April 2019
  Early detection research at Cancer Research UK
  Dr Elizabeth Smethurst, Research Funding Manager, Early Detection Research, Cancer Research UK
  
  
• Wednesday 20 March 2019
  Completing a systematic review summarising screening tools used to predict physical frailty in adults aged 65 years and over. A dissertation project 
  Dr Sarah Walker, Research Fellow, UEMS Exercise Training for Chronic Heart Failure (ExTraMATCH II): Our experience of performing an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis AND Ellie Williams, BCLinSci student, UEMS
  
  
• Friday 8 February 2019
  Should clinicians measure blood pressure in 2019
  Professor Richard McManus, Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Oxford 
  
  
• Tuesday 22 January 2019
  A future vision for general practice – Recording
  Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners
  
  

2018 

• Wednesday 28 November 2018
  Joint seminar: Exploring the role of peer-led group-based interventions in the care of adult sexual abuse survivors
  Judit Konya, Academic Clinical Fellow UEMS
  
  To beet or not to beet? That is the question - a brief review of dietary nitrate as a potential ergogenic and therapeutic aid
  Sinead McDonagh, Research Fellow UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 31 October 2018
  Cancer diagnostic trials in primary care - ECASS and ERICA
  Professor Willie Hamilton, Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics (DISCO), and Dr Raff Calitri, Trial Manager, UEMS 
  
  
• Wednesday 26 September 2018
  Building Workshop: Measuring patient safety in general practice: the NIHR Patient Safety Toolkit Project and related initiatives
  Co-organised by APEx, SW AHSN and RCGP Tamar Faculty
  
  
• Wednesday 26 September 2018
  Making a difference with your research: towards improving patient safety in primary care
  Professor Tony Avery, Dean and Head of School of Medicine, University of Nottingham
  
  
• Thursday 5 July 2018
  Continuity of care and the new normal of multimorbidity in primary care: appreciating and extending Barbara Starfield’s notion of longitudinal person-focused care – Watch the video
  Barbara Starfield Lecture, Professor Jeannie Haggerty
  
  Professor Haggerty’s domain of research is the measure of patient experience of patient-centred healthcare and measurement of access and continuity, and how these measures relate to changes in organisational and professional practices.
  
  Professor Haggerty recalls that Barbara Starfield proposed that while continuity of care is an attribute of good healthcare, it is uniquely expressed and valued in primary care as person-focused care over time, or longitudinality. So continuity in primary care has become virtually synonymous with establishing a therapeutic relationship with the patient and is often indicated by the extent to which a patient concentrates care in their GP. However, as it has become the norm for older adults to have two or more chronic conditions, so being seen by multiple clinicians and having multiple treatment plans has also become the norm. Her talk will summarise research on what patients say about the challenge of managing multiple conditions and seeing multiple providers and present why and how we need to expand the notion of continuity of care to include other clinicians, while underlying the value of person-focused care over time.
  
  
• Wednesday 27 June 2018
  Psychosocial interventions in cardiovascular disease
  Professor David Thompson, Professor of Nursing, Queen's University Belfast
  
  
• Wednesday 20 June 2018
  The At-Risk Registers Intergrated into primary care to Stop Asthma crises in the UK (ARRISA-UK) trial: progress and plans for future workDr Jane Smith, Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, UEMS
  Dr Leon Poltawski and Rachel Winder, Research Fellows for ARRISA-UK study, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 9 May 2018
  Why do people with long-term conditions get depression: unpicking the neurocognitive mechanisms
  Professor Chris Dickens, Professor of Psychological Medicine, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 4 April 2018
  A randomised trial of the addition of mirtazipine for patients with depression in primary care who have not responded to antidepressant treatment
  Dr David Kessler, Reader in Primary Care, Bristol Medical School
  
  
• Wednesday 21 March  2018
  SPOtting Cancer among comorbidities (SPOC): do pre-existing conditions delay diagnosis of cancer?
  Dr Luke Mounce, UEMS Research Fellow (DISCO)
  
  Time-dependent variation for PRO measurements in patients with chronic health conditions: a systematic scoping review
  Antoinette Davey, Researcher and PhD student (HSPRG)
  
  
• Wednesday 21 February 2018
  Community-based social innovations for healthy ageing: evidence from middle-income countries
  Dr Emma Pitchforth, Senior Research Fellow in Primary Care, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 10 January 2018
  It's the sustainability, stupid!" - why health and social care need a new snowclone to survive 
  Tim Malone (1), Niall Macleod (2), Andrew Gunther (3)
  1. NHS Research Fellow, RD&E; 2. GP, Exeter; 3. Senior Planning & Public Health Officer, Torbay Council. All NHS England/Public Health England Sustainability and Health Ambassadors for Devon
  
  

2017 

• Wednesday 6 December 2017
  Mental health in GP/patient consultations
  Dr Joe Ford, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UEMS with Professor Rose McCabe and Professor Katrina Wyatt, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 15 November 2017
  Overcoming barriers to anticoagulant uptake in atrial fibrillation: lessons from the AURAS-AF trial
  Dr Tim Holt PhD MRCP FRCGP, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford
  
  
• Wednesday 18 October 2017
  The ImpulsePal: An app a day keeps the cravings at bay
  Sam van Beurden, UEMS Researcher
  
  The pilot evaluation of a web-based intervention for physical activity and depression
  Jeff Lambert, UEMS Researcher
  
  
• Friday 29 September 2017
  Sharing Medicine
  Dr Richard Lehman, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
  
  
• Friday 15 September 2017
  Alison Marsh, Research Programme Manager, Clinical Innovation and Research, Royal College of General Practitioners
  
  
• Wednesday 14 June 2017
  Exploring the safety of an electronic prescribing system in an Intensive Care Unit: A mixed methods approach
  Jaheeda Gangannagaripalli, Researcher, Health Services & Policy Research, UEMS
  
  Optimising Interventional Treatment of Tennis Elbow
  Jonathan Evans MRCS, MD Student, Health Services & Policy Research, UEMS & Orthopaedic Registrar
  
  
• Wednesday 24 May 2017
  Calling time on the consultation
  Professor John Campbell, Professor of General Practice and Primary Care, UEMS & Director of APEx
  
  
• Wednesday 26 April 2017
  Dementia: Prevention, Treatment and Care
  Professor Clive Ballard, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean
  
  
• Wednesday 15 March 2017
  Continuity - is it the key to care?
  Assoc Prof Philip Evans, Dr Kate Sidaway-Lee and Sir Denis Pereira Gray, St Leonard's Research Practice, Exeter
  
  
• Wednesday 22 February 2017
  The Community-based Prevention of Diabetes (ComPoD) randomised, waiting list controlled trial of a voluntary sector-led diabetes prevention programme 
  Assoc Prof Colin Greaves and Dr Jane Smith, UEMS researchers
  
  
• Wednesday 18 January 2017
  Polypharmacy - a necessary evil?
  Dr Rupert Payne, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Bristol
  
  Evidence, advocacy and resourcing – can global general practice meet the challenge of universal health coverage?" 
  Professor Amanda Howe OBE
  Professor Amanda Howe delivered her Starfield Lecture. She used her global experience as President of WONCA to reflect on the need both for updated evidence on the impacts of investment in primary care,  and the need to use smart arguments to persuade governments to invest in the modern medical workforce for effective health care. The lecture was video recorded.
  
  Professor Howe trained in Cambridge, London and then Sheffield (1973-1980). Following vocational training, she developed both her GP and academic careers in Sheffield before moving to become the inaugural Chair in Primary Care in the foundation team for the new Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia in 2001. She was Course Director during the GMC accreditation process for the new course from 2004-2008, then was also an RCGP Officer 2009-2015. In 2013 she was elected to the Executive of the World Organization of Family Doctors , where she is now President (2016-2018, see www.globalfamilydoctor.com ), while retaining academic and clinical general practice. The last role has brought her into strategic involvement with many major policy units worldwide, including the Robert Graham Center where she has been a keynote speaker for two ‘Starfield Summits’. In April 2018 she was appointed Chair of the International Advisory Group on Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage.
  
  

2016 

• The Future of Primary Care
  Starfield Lecture, Professor Martin Roland CBE
  Professor Roland trained in Medicine at the University of Oxford. Following vocational training, he worked in London and Cambridge before moving to the Chair in General Practice in the University of Manchester in 1992. He moved to the inaugural Chair of Health Services Research in the University of Cambridge in 2009. Professor Roland was a practising GP from 1979 to 2014.
  In 2015, Professor Martin Roland chaired a government commission to identify models of primary care that would meet the future needs of the NHS. In this lecture, he described how British general practice could once again become the envy of the world.
  
  
• Wednesday 14 Dec 2016
  Identifying patients with dementia: from clinical judgement and simple tests to precision medicine 
  Dr David Llewellyn, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 30 November 2016
  Handling patient survey data in healthcare - massaging the data or sound practice?"
  Professor Marc N Elliott PhD, Senior Principal Researcher, RAND & Dr Gary Abel PhD, Senior Lecturer, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 16 November 2016
  Getting to grips with the psychology of weight management: lessons learned from developing and delivering the SkiM (Skills for weight loss and Maintenance) intervention
  Dr Leon Poltawski and Associate Professor Colin Greaves, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 9 November 2016
  Diagnostic activity indicators for cancer in primary care
  Dr Gary Abel, UEMS
• Wednesday 2 November 2016
  Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) in clinical trials - an introduction
   Dr Tove A Hanssen, Honorary Research Fellow, Complex Interventions Research Group, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 12 October 2016
  Providing psychological care in cardiac rehabilitation settings: a tale of two halves. Findings from an updated Cochrane review, and NIHR HTA funded pilot study ‘CADENCE’ 
  Dr Sue Richards, UEMS
  
  
• Wednesday 14 September 2016
  Nepal, Ivan Illich, and flesh-eating killer bugs: the journey of a clinical researcher
  Professor Paul Little, Professor of Primary Care Research, University of Southampton
  
  
• Wednesday 22 June 2016
  Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for the routine management of multimorbidity in primary care: results of a feasibility study
  Dr Ian Porter
  
  Dr Charlotte Bramwell
  
  
• Thursday 2 June 2016
  Multimorbidity  - models of care
  "Primary Care Databases: challenges with analysing electronic health records" ‌
  Dr Evan Kontopantelis
  
  
• Friday 29 April 2016
  How do medical students learn technical proficiency on hospital placements? The role of learning networks"
  Dr Alex Harding
  
  
• Wednesday 20 April 2016
  OPTIcare - applying a science of generalism to tackling problematic polypharmacy"
  Dr Joanne Reeve
  
  
• Wednesday 6 April 2016
  Transforming patient-reported outcome assessment: the role of adaptive tests and tailored feedback"
  Dr Chris Gibbons
  
  
• Wednesday 23 March 2016
  Key components in models of community-based interventions coordinating care in dementia: a mixed studies systematic review"
  
  The Clinical Practice Research Datalink: how much symptom information is lost in the free text
  Amy Backhouse
  
  
• 24 February 2016
  Patient feedback: useful in transforming primary care?
  Professor John Campbell
  
  
• Wednesday 20 January 2016
  Integrating service design, evaluation and research: a strategy to improve person-centred coordinated care
  Dr Helen Lloyd
  
  

2015 

• Wednesday 2 December 2015
  Nursing research in hypertension: a Canadian perspective
  Professor Lyne Cloutier
  
  
• Wednesday 25 November 2015
  Using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for the routine management of multimorbidity in primary care: Results of a feasibility study
  Dr Ian Porter &  Dr Caroline Jenkinson & Mary CarterThe MIR Trial:  lessons learned from conducting a CTIMP in general practices
  
  
• Tuesday 17 November 2015
  Blood pressure measurement in the GP's office: Is it a complete waste of time?
  Dr James Sheppard
  
  
• Wednesday 21 October
  Professor Rod Taylor, Professor of Health Services Research, UEMS
  
  
• 29 September 2015
  General Practice: An Independent Discipline
  Starfield Lecture, Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE
  
  The inaugural lecture was given by Sir Denis Pereira Gray OBE HonDSc FRCP FRCGP FMedSci with the title "General Practice: An Independent Discipline".
  
  Sir Denis Pereira Gray worked as a general practitioner for 38 years in the St Leonard’s Medical Practice Exeter, following his father and grandfather. He was President of the Cambridge University Chess Club and has been awarded the gold medal of the Hunterian Society, London, the gold medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health, and honorary doctorates by three British universities. The lecture was published in the British Journal of General Practice Open: "Towards research-based learning outcomes for general practice in medical schools: Inaugural Barbara Starfield Memorial Lecture" 
  
  
• Thursday 17 September 2015
  Multimorbidity: Re-designing health care for the people who use it"
  Professor Chris Salisbury, Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol
  
  
• Wed 24 June 2015Thrombocytosis: an important marker of cancer in primary care?
  Sarah Bailey
  
  Cochrane cardiac rehabilitation reviews - working with Cochrane: lessons learned"
  Dr Lindsey Anderson
  
  
• Wed 20 May 2015
  The challenges of integrating primary care for people with physical and psychological health problems
  Professor Chris Dickens
  
  
• Wed 15 April
  Ordering of thyroid function tests in primary care - is six-fold variation too much and should we do anything about it?
  Professor Chris Hyde, Dr Bijay Vaidya (Consultant Physician, RD&E) UNTEST team
  
  
• Wed 25 March 2015
  Complex interventions for complex problems: from offenders to multimorbidity, developing and evaluating innovative models of care
  Professor Richard Byng
  
  
• Wed 25 February 2015
   'You've got Alzheimer's Disease' - delivering a diagnosis of dementia
  Jemima Dooley
  
  Including caregivers in designing a home-based intervention for heart failure management: what do they need?
  Jenny Wingham
  
  
• Wed 28 January 2015
  Ankle-Brachial Index, the most ubiquitary marker of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk: 45 years of research
  Professor Victor Aboyans
  
  

2014 

• Tue 24 June 2014
  Presentations to SAPC, Edinburgh Primary Care SAPC Presentations Edinburgh 2014
  
  
• Fri 23 May 2014
  Using patient-reported outcome measures in Primary Care: evidence and challenges
  Professor Jose Valderas
  
  
• Fri 18 July 2014
  Ethnic differences in clinical quality of care in the US
  Marc Elliott
  
  
• Mon 22 Sep 2014
  Producing evidence that helps
  Professor David Mant
  
  
• Wed 22 October 2014
   "(How) can GPs improve cancer outcomes?
  Professor Willie Hamilton 
  
  
• Wed 3 December 2014
  Impact of multi-morbidity and clinical complexity on the quality and safety of Primary Care in England: Development of a protocol
  Dr Leon Poltawski
  
  Weight loss maintenance: a qualitative synthesis and implications for interventions
  Dr Luke Mounce
  
  

PROMs applications in clinical settings

Thursday 20^th June 2024, 09:00-17:00, University of Exeter

Call for Abstracts by 5.00pm on 15th March 2024

Registration now open

All researchers, health care practitioners/clinicians and PhD students involved in Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) research are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

The theme of this year’s conference is ‘PROMs applications in clinical settings’. We are particularly interested in submissions related to developing and implementing patient outcome measures in clinical settings across conditions. We are particularly interested in different methods of implementation, overcoming barriers and lessons learned during these processes. We welcome submissions that describe clinical utility of PROMs and presentation of PROMs to clinicians and patients. Beyond our core theme, we welcome submissions on any topic that comes under the breadth of PROMs Research, including studies demonstrating patient and public involvement and methodological case studies or examples of when things don’t go to plan.

If you would like to make a submission to be considered for an oral or poster presentation, please visit our online submission platform Oxford Abstracts. 

Abstract Submission Guidance
Abstracts reporting research should use the following headings:

Background, Aim(s), Method(s), Results, and Conclusions.

Word limit: 300 words maximum, not including the headings. Note - please do not include
tables/graphics/diagrams/symbols in your abstract. Please submit abstracts online by:  5.00pm on 15th March 2024

Selection criteria
The scientific panel will select papers on the following basis:

• Only abstracts submitted before the deadline will be considered
• Work in progress and papers at an early stage of development will be welcom
  
• Reproduced papers and reports (especially those written for other audiences) and reproduced book chapters are likely to be rejected 

Assessment process
We will operate a blind peer-review process for all abstracts in which reviewers will judge abstracts on the quality of the content.

• Scientific significance and importance to the PROMs research field and clinical The importance of the study in moving the science/field forward or having impact. Implications for the field in terms of practice/policy/methodology are clearly stated. Value to existing literature/evidence base. Likelihood of generating extensive delegate interest
• Creativity/originality/innovation: Represents a creative or innovative approach. Novel, and likely to provoke discussion. The submission has not been presented at a previous ARC conference.

Allocation of oral and poster presentations
Allocation will be based on the quality of the abstract submitted. Very good abstracts are often recommended as posters simply due to the overall high quality of abstracts and the inherently limited spaces for oral presentation.

Prizes

• Accepted PhD student posters will be considered for a best PhD poster prize.
• A prize will be awarded for best oral presentation that best communicates their research to the public as judged by patient and public involvement collaborators.
• An award for best oral presentation will be presented during the closing remarks.

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 15th March 2024 at 5.00pm. Abstracts submitted after this deadline will not be considered.

We expect to notify individuals of the outcome of the abstract decision process by the 5th of April. Please note that presenters of abstracts are not automatically registered for the conference. You will need to register by the 19^th of April.

We have held a number of rooms on the university premises and if you require this accommodation you will need to book this by 22^nd of April through the conference registration portal. Room rates (B&B) typically start from £85 per night. If you have any problems booking accommodation please contact Antoinette Davey at antoinette.davey@exeter.ac.uk

Thank you for considering submission to 8^th Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference 2024.

KEY DATES:

• Abstract submission closure: 5pm 15^th March
  Submit abstracts through this link: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/31769/submitter
• Abstract decisions: 5^th April
• Conference registration for presenters closes: 19^th April
• Accommodation closes: 22^nd April
  Register for conference/accommodation through this link: https://store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/university-of-exeter-medical-school/events/proms-uk-2024