Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx)
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx)
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx)
Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx)
The Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) is a multidisciplinary team within the College of Medicine and Health. We have strong partnerships with schools of primary care across the country, the NHS and NIHR.
We are delighted to be recognised as one of the nine member departments of the NIHR SPCR 2021-2026
Professor John Campbell is Professor of General Practice and Primary Care, and Chair of the APEx Collaboration
Professor Richard Neal is Professor of Primary Care Ongology and Chair of the APEx Collaboration
If you would like to get in touch contact apex@exeter.ac.uk or visit our team page for links to individual staff member profiles.
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Advice Clinics are for primary care researchers intending to submit applications in the School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) funding rounds
- Ideas Cafes are early informal chats with the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement Group
- If you are interested in booking a slot for either of these events please click here https://arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/events/
- Establish a research focus on the development and delivery of holistic, person-centred care that builds on existing expertise.
- Understanding, research, and explore new, integrated models of care which cross traditional boundaries of primary, secondary, mental health and social care.
- Look at innovative ways of delivering high quality integrated care that exploit the potential of technology.
- Pursue research and education in primary care leadership and service organisation, building on existing expertise associated with the Peninsula CLAHRC and the Exeter Business School.
- Establish a continuum of education in primary care from the undergraduate to the postgraduate and the established professional, placing research and evidence at the heart of primary care education.
Bringing together research groups across Health and Community Sciences
- Ageing and Frailty (website under construction)
- Cancer Diagnosis (DISCO)
- Child Health including Children and Young People's Mental Health (ChYme)
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profiles, news, and opinion pieces
Featured Research & Publications
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Global action on antimicrobial resistance
A recent article published in BMJ Global Health drawing on tobacco control to inform AMR policy, exploring the lessons learned by taking a comparative and historical approach to managing AMR in the present and future.
Read the article here: Global action on antimicrobial resistance: lessons from the history of climate change and tobacco control policy
Authors: Emma Pitchforth, Elta Smith, Jirka Taylor, Sally Davies, Gemma-Claire Ali, Camilla d'Angelo
Digital Facilitation in Primary Care
An article from the NIHR funded "Di-Facto" study which aims to understand the benefits and challenges associated with different models of digital facilitation currently in use in general practice in parts of England.
Read the article, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, here: Digital Facilitation to Support Patient Access to Web-Based Primary Care Services: Scoping Literature Review
Authors: Brandi Leach, Sarah Parkinson, Evangelos Gkousis, Gary Abel, Helen Atherton, John Campbell, Chris Clark, Emma Cockcroft, Chris Marriott, Emma Pitchforth, Jon Sussex
Ethnic inequalities in routes to diagnosis of cancer
Black and Asian patients are waiting up to a month longer than White patients for some forms of cancer diagnosis from the point at which they first seek medical help, new research has found. Read the news story on the UoE news page.
The paper was published in Cancers: Assessing ethnic inequalities in diagnostic interval of common cancers: a population-based UK cohort study’.
Authors: Tani Martins, Gary Abel, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Sarah Price, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Frank Chinegwundoh, William Hamilton