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The Research Incentive Scheme (RIS) was established in 2010 and, over the years, has proved a very popular initiative.

Remuneration is on a sliding scale, depending on the level of involvement and number of studies a practice has recruited to.

In 2010 Boundaries for Life was born and teams of health care professionals volunteered to run checks at the England v Pakistan One Day International at the Kia Oval in London.

Our aim was to offer blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, body mass index (obesity), mouth cancer screening, and to raise awareness on dementia.

The Million Women Study is a national study of women’s health, involving more than one million UK women aged 50 and over. It is a collaborative project between Cancer Research UK and the National Health Service, with additional funding from the Medical Research Council and the Health and Safety Executive, which aims to answer many outstanding questions about the factors affecting women’s health in this age group.

 TIME (Treatment In Morning vs Evening) is looking at patients taking once a day blood pressure medication, aiming to establish whether night time dosing is better (or worse) than morning time treatment in preventing heart attacks, strokes, and deaths related to diseases of the heart and circulation.

A new, free training initiative launches in the New Year to help GP receptionists recognise the symptoms of stroke and TIA (transient ischaemic attack).

The programme, ‘Getting to Hospital at a Single Stroke’, has been developed in response to a recent study at the University of Birmingham that revealed that 20% of stroke patients called their GP, rather than an ambulance, at the onset of symptoms.

Electronic health databases have been used widely in health research for years, consisting of data derived from routinely collected health records generated by daily clinical practice. Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) is one of the largest databases of longitudinal medical records from primary care in the world.  

Prescribing is an important activity for general practitioners. Patients rely on the medicines that their doctors choose. From a medical perspective, the prescriber should be adequately trained to perform this important clinical task.