My experience has shown me the two most important features in context are time and teamwork. Getting your whole team together to focus on an area of work, where everyone gets to input their thoughts can be very helpful.
Dr Nicholas Fernandez writes about his experience as a GP Research Fellow and explains why research is a great opportunity to not only design change but evidence the reason for that change.
Dr Omair Razzaq writes about his surgery’s involvement in clinical research and his hopes for developing treatments and helping advancements in the medical world.
In this article Jane Wilcock, GP, educator and researcher at Silverdale Medical Centre Salford writes about her experience as a GP researcher, not funded and doing research in her own time.
On 2017 I signed our practice, Lockside Medical Centre to CPRD, a research initiative, funded by MHRA/NIHR, that routinely collects anonymised patient data from practices to support innovative public health research. Though my motives were initially altruistic, signing up turned out to bring other benefits.
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“This is Manchester, we do things differently here”, how often in recent months has that quote by Tony Wilson been referenced? But when it comes to supporting General Practice in Greater Manchester it definitely applies.
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