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Blog | Nipple shields to support breastfeeding – a co-production workshop

A co-production workshop brought together parents, researchers, healthcare professionals and breastfeeding supporters to explore women’s lived experiences of using nipple shields. The event highlighted the benefits, challenges and support needs associated with nipple shield use, helping to shape future research and improve breastfeeding support and guidance.

September 29, 2026

Blog | The Leadership We Can No Longer Ignore

Leadership is increasingly important to community-based roles such as social prescribing link workers, yet little attention has been paid to what leadership means in practice for these practitioners. This blog explores why traditional leadership models may not reflect the relational, collaborative and community-grounded leadership these roles require.

September 25, 2026

Blog | Academic leadership across difference

Professor Kamal R Mahtani explores how academic leaders can build trust across diverse communities. Reflecting on listening, fairness and shared purpose, he examines how universities can foster respectful collaboration and inclusion without requiring universal agreement.

September 1, 2026

Blog | George Lewith Prize Winner 2026 – Reflections of the SAPC Conference

Shraddha Sriraman, the winner of the George Lewith Prize 2026, reflects on her visit to the 54th Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Annual Scientific Meeting.

August 10, 2026

Blog | Going to the Netherlands for Data, Returning with Collaborations

Sharing Asma Chaabouni’s University of Exeter blog post, supported by the SPCR Travel Bursary, highlighting how a data-focused visit to the Netherlands grew into valuable international research collaborations.

August 6, 2026

Blog | Public Perceptions of the Future of Primary Care: My Experience as a Peer Researcher

Public contributor Sadia Mir reflects on their experience as a peer researcher in an NIHR SPCR-funded primary care research project.

July 17, 2026

Blog | How ‘active’ GP surgeries might support better everyday health and care

New research highlights how initiatives such as the parkrun Practice initiative and the Active Practice Charter could help GP practices promote physical activity while supporting improvements in the quality of patient care.

July 9, 2026

Blog | Learning Disability Safe Space Cafés: creating spaces where people feel able to share, learn and be heard

This blog explores the learning from the Learning Disability Safe Space Cafés, a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) project funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research.

July 8, 2026

PPIE in Practice | Nicotine reduction therapy for smoking reduction in pregnancy

In our new video blog series ‘Public Involvement and Engagement in Practice’, Halle Johnson (Public Involvement and Engagement Manager) speaks to Dr Sophie Orton, Senior Research Fellow from the University of Nottingham about her recent research focused on smoking reduction in pregnancy. Acknowledgements & Further information: To…

June 29, 2026

PPIE in Practice | Involving the public in electronic health record research: Medication reviews and polypharmacy in primary care

Ruth Jack, Senior Research Fellow at University of Nottingham shares more about how members of the public were involved in her project ‘Medication reviews and polypharmacy in primary care’ funded by the SPCR. This blog is part of our ‘PPIE in Practice Series’. What was your project about?…

June 29, 2026