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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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…

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  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?…

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  PPIE in Practice – Support for Pakistani carers through social prescribing

  In our latest episode of ‘Public Involvement and Engagement in Practice’, Halle Johnson (Public Involvement and Engagement Manager) speaks to Dr Abi Woodward, NIHR SPCR Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London and Sarah McMullen, Research Assistant in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health at…

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  PPIE in Practice – Understanding the measurement of postural hypotension in primary care

  In our latest episode of Public Involvement in Practice, we speak to Dr Rosina Cross, NIHR SPCR Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter about public involvement in research exploring postural hypotension measurement in primary care settings. Acknowledgements & Further information: The project ‘Understanding the measurement of…

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  PPIE in Practice – Systematic review of weight loss on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) symptoms

  In our latest episode of Public Involvement in Practice, we speak to Dr Jadine Scragg, Researcher at Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford to tell us about how they involved the public in their project exploring the impact of weight loss on PCOS symptoms.