Claire Reidy

Bugbears in the Waiting Room: Revisiting Arber and Sawyer's Classic Study of GP Reception Work Using Ethnography in Eight English General Practices In 1985, Arber and Sawyer described the discretionary rationing power of general practice receptionists. Our paper revisits this territory. Much has changed in the intervening decades. Digitalisation...

Our paper about GP access is out now (TLDR patients and receptionists are engaged in a quest to get the prize of an appointment but are thwarted by digital barriers and practice systems) doi.org/10.1111/1467...
#NIHR @oxprimarycare.bsky.social

A woman would have been too emotional as President.

The man on the left is Colin Kaepernick, the man on the right needs no introduction. They both have one thing in common, they sacrificed their careers to call out injustices suffered by marginalised people. In a world full of hatred, be more like Colin and Gary.

Social Scientists in our department: what do they do and what difference do they make? Find out how social scientists in our department are shaping primary health care through collaborative, theory-driven research. From digital health to health inequalities, their research helps shape p...

We spent the day at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social exploring the work that we do as Social Scientists in our department, and the difference we make in shaping primary care: Read more here - www.phc.ox.ac.uk/blog/social-...
#digitalhealth #healthinequalities #socialscience #healthresearch #primarycare

Katherine Tucker and I talking at the NIHR ARC MLTC Dissemination Event about our (and the wider OSCAR Research Group's) evaluation of structured medication reviews [from 00:13:53]: open.spotify.com/episode/0o2Y...

Wider study link for info is here: www.phc.ox.ac.uk/research/gro...

📣 In our upcoming public talk, Clinical Research Fellow Kenneth Chan will explain how a new device developed in Oxford combines CT scan with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect the biological processes that lead to heart attacks: oxfordbrc.nihr.ac.uk/brc-event/fr...

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Our survey on #kidney information/education is still open: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/ph...
We need to hear more from people who are #SouthAsian and/or #African/#Caribbean with #KidneyDisease, #HighBloodPressure or #Diabetes to capture all experiences so please share widely.
Thank you!

📢Do you or a family member have #KidneyDisease, #HighBloodPressure or #Diabetes?

📒 We would like to hear about what information you have received about your #kidneys - what was good & what could be improved!

🔗https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/salford/phase-1-patient-survey

🙌Thank you!

The latest Household Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics show that poverty continues to affect millions of children in the UK, with 4.5 million affected by poverty during 2023-2024, an increase of 100,00 on the year before. These figures should shame us all, and must be examined alongside the UK Government’s proposals to take £4.8 billion in social security support from some of the most vulnerable, and indeed poorest, among us. The Government’s own Impact Assessment suggests that 50,000 more children will be pulled into relative poverty as a direct result of these changes. But another way is possible. For the past five years, almost 200 parents and carers living on a low-income from all four nations of the UK have been working alongside researchers at the University of York and Child Poverty Action Group to document everyday life in poverty and to push for change. The project started life as Covid Realities in the pandemic and became Changing Realities in a cost-of-living crisis that has never gone away. In our work together, we have contributed real-time evidence to policymakers, challenged harmful media narratives, and developed co-produced recommendations for change.

🧵We learned today that a record 4.5 million children faced poverty this year, but we also learned that policy change can make a difference.

changingrealities.org/writings/cut...

New analysis with @cpaguk.bsky.social for @nuffieldfoundation.org

New UK-Wide Centre to address growing respiratory health crisis New UK-wide Centre for Applied Respiratory Research, Innovation and Impact (CARRii) launches at Oxford, aiming to reduce hospital admissions and health inequalities in respiratory care through innovat...

🔬 Launching today: A major new UK-wide respiratory research centre led by our Head of Department, Prof Sir Aziz Sheikh & Prof Chris Griffiths of @qmul.ac.uk .

CARRii aims to tackle the UK's urgent respiratory health crisis & reduce inequalities. Learn more ⬇️

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Interested in the use of apps and patient portals in health services? Check out our evaluation of the roll-out of the NHS App in England using qualitative methods. Spoiler: It's complex!
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#patientportals #NHSApp #digitalhealth #generalpractice #COVIDPass

Concerning ethnic disparities in access to safe COVID-19 treatment, new study shows New research shows concerning disparities in how Sotrovimab - a COVID-19 treatment approved for extremely clinically vulnerable patients - is given to patients, despite it being safe.

New research shows a worrying trend: not all clinically vulnerable patients are getting equal access to Sotrovimab, a COVID-19 treatment, despite it being safe to use.

@juliahcox.bsky.social and colleagues raise serious concerns about health inequalities.

Read more 🔗

#HealthEquity #COVID19

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Introduction to conversation analysis and health care encounters Oxford UK 5-6 June 2025. This two day course is a contemporary working introduction to applying conversation analytic methods to the study of communication in health care. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-...
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