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Front of CAPC Research News - July 2025. Lead story image - handheld devices for rapidly detecting dangerous synthetic drugs. Caption: Device that saves lives by detecting dangerous sythnetic drugs wins chemistry award.

📢Our latest research newsletter is out now (July 2025) - packed with our latest research findings, blogs, editorials and opinion pieces, events, featured multimedia content & more.

👀Take a look! ⬇️

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Exercise prescription and patient outcomes - PubMed Exercise is frequently prescribed yet our understanding of how to best optimize exercise prescription is limited, and we do not know which patient outcomes are most important. In this editorial, we ou...

Published in the Journal BMC Primary Care by Dr Lianne Wood et al: Exercise prescription and patient outcomes
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Congrats to Beccy Summers and Leon Farmer who won the best poster prize at #SAPC_ASM #SAPC2025 this year. They impressed everyone with their work on the 'Patient Bridge Approach - a new approach for PPI in primary care research programmes'.
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Ali Bingham (1st Year PhD student) reflects on SAPC‑SW conference experiences, uncovering why allied health professionals still face barriers entering primary care research: tinyurl.com/yc4zznf2 @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

💡 Reminder: The SPCR Public Involvement, Engagement & Dissemination Enablement Fund is open to applications. 💷 Up to £2K for projects | £5K for dept-wide activities 📅 First deadline: Thurs 24 July 2025, 5pm 🔗 Learn more & apply: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-ppie-dissemination-enablement-fund

💡 Reminder: The SPCR Public Involvement, Engagement & Dissemination Enablement Fund is open to applications.

💷 Up to £2K for projects | £5K for dept-wide activities
📅 First deadline: Thurs 24 July 2025, 5pm
🔗 Learn more & apply: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-pp...

The Three NIHR Research Schools’ Mental Health Programme has published its Impact Report 2021–2025, highlighting three years of collaborative research achievements supported by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR): https://bit.ly/4lsHnlJ @ashmore1973.bsky.social @georginaspcr.bsky.social

The Three NIHR Research Schools’ Mental Health Programme has published its Impact Report 2021–2025, highlighting three years of collaborative research achievements supported by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR): bit.ly/4lsHnlJ

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SPCR colleagues were well represented at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting held in Cardiff this July, with several members receiving awards in recognition of their work in primary care research: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-members-awarded-at-sapc-asm-2025 #PrimaryCare #Research

SPCR colleagues were well represented at the @sapc.ac.uk Annual Scientific Meeting held in Cardiff this July, with several members receiving awards in recognition of their work in primary care research: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/spcr-me...

#PrimaryCare #Research

The NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme has launched three new funding calls: 👉 Research project awards 👉 Follow-on research awards 👉 Career development awards Deadline: 5pm, Tues 30 September 2025 https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/current-funding-opportunities/ @nihrspcr.bsky.social @nihrsscr.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

The NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme has launched three new funding calls:
👉 Research project awards
👉 Follow-on research awards
👉 Career development awards
Deadline: 5pm, Tues 30 September 2025

sphr.nihr.ac.uk/current-fund...

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📢 Join the SPCR Masterclass: Intro to Open Publishing & Peer Review with NIHR Open Research 🗓️ Thurs, 25 Sept 2025 🕚 11am–12noon 💡 Learn how the NIHR model works + tips for first-time authors & grantees. 🔗 bit.ly/3IdJV8U #OpenResearch #NIHR

📢 Join the SPCR Masterclass: Intro to Open Publishing & Peer Review with NIHR Open Research
🗓️ Thurs, 25 Sept 2025
🕚 11am–12noon
💡 Learn how the NIHR model works + tips for first-time authors & grantees.

🔗 bit.ly/3IdJV8U #OpenResearch #NIHR

Three Research Schools' Online Seminar | Women’s prisons: how can we engage lived experience to improve primary care for women with severe mental illness, 24 September 2025, 12 - 1pm: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/women-with-severe-mental-illness-in-prisons #MentalHealth #Research @ashmore1973.bsky.social @georginaspcr.bsky.social

Three Research Schools' Online Seminar | Women’s prisons: how can we engage lived experience to improve primary care for women with severe mental illness, 24 September 2025, 12 - 1pm: www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/events/women...

#MentalHealth #Research

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Check out our APEx blog highlighting Rehabilitation Research by Dr Samantha van Beurden and Professor Vicki Goodwin: Include Us or Miss the Point: Why Representation in Research Matters tinyurl.com/2z58h74s @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

Congrats @jobutterworth.bsky.social et al. on winning the 'Highly Commended Best Poster Prize' at #SAPC2025 for their project 'Ensuring equality, diversity and inclusivity in the coproduction and planning for the evaluation of a shared decision-making intervention for people living with MLTCs'

A brilliant showing from our APEx team at #SAPC_ASM! Inspiring presentations, plenty of networking and lovely evening at the museum @sapc.ac.uk @garyabel.bsky.social @drrosinacross.bsky.social @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @jobutterworth.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social @kozmer-stella.bsky.social

@drrosinacross.bsky.social summarised the importance of the role of the #BIHS in independently reviewing blood pressure monitor validation studies re. supporting HCPs and the public to choose appropriate BP monitors @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM

Fantastic poster presentation by Judit Konya on early cancer diagnosis & community pharmacies in deprived areas - more research is needed in this area to fully assess the potential role they could play. @richarddneal.bsky.social @garyabel.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM

@drrosinacross.bsky.social presenting an update on the @nihrspcr.bsky.social PALP-AF project - a mixed methods study on patient-led interventions for managing symptoms and episodes of atrial fibrillation @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social

#SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM

SAPC ASM 2025, Cardiff. Evening Socials

"Evening miles and shared smiles! Thanks to everyone who joined the walking and running groups — what a fantastic way to connect and unwind."

APEx colleagues old and new and key collaborators chatting over dinner at #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM - networking at its finest! @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @garyabel.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social

APEx colleagues old and new and key collaborators chatting over dinner at #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM - networking at its finest! @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @garyabel.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social

Do primary care professionals need to moderate patient info from online support groups? Fantastic talk by Bethan Treadgold at #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM in Cardiff this week

Great to see connections between APEx and UCL flourishing at #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM. Congrats to Ev for a fantastic presentation showcasing our @nihrspcr.bsky.social project on understanding more about patient perspectives of postural hypotension @sineadmcd89.bsky.social @chrisellesclark.bsky.social

Professor Rupert Payne (past Chair, SAPC) shares his experience of the SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting at Cardiff. Read his blog:
Croeso i Gaerdydd: better than Bali? tinyurl.com/ytf4uv8z @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

Check out our latest blog: NIHR Doctoral Research Training Camp 2025: A lesson in how to PREVAIL. Written by Amy Chinner (1st Year NIHR SPCR funded PhD student within APEx) tinyurl.com/bdd7cet5 @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

Workshop 4 will be starting at 13:15 today .......

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Tom Kallis, Clinical Research Fellow, on navigating clinical uncertainty in polypharmacy at the SAPC Conference, Cardiff #SAPC2025 #SAPC_ASM @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

Understanding the self-management experiences of people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), their caregivers and the health care professionals who support them: Systematic rev... The limited capacity of HCPs to support HFpEF patients and caregivers to develop effective self-management understanding and practice can lead to disempowerment and loss of control. Tailored intervent...

Published in the British journal of cardiac nursing by Assoc. Prof. Julia Frost et al: Understanding the self-management experiences of people with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), their caregivers and the health care professionals who support them tinyurl.com/2efewbcd

SAPC ASM 2025, Cardiff

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Check out our new paper -we've created a tool to estimate arm blood pressure from ankle blood pressure measurements @chrisellesclark.bsky.social @apexcomms.bsky.social

Exploring the mediators of the BOOST intervention on walking disability at 12 months: a causal mediation analysis Are improvements in walking disability, measured with the walking component of the Oswestry Disability Index, mediated by walking confidence, capacity…

Published in the Journal of Physiotherapy by Dr Lianne Wood et al: Exploring the mediators of the BOOST intervention on walking disability at 12 months: a causal mediation analysis
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