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'Coventry Creates' and Care Companion

Care Companion, a Unit of Academic Primary Care project, benefits from a creative partnership award allowing artists to continue their work during the COVID-19 pandemic through collaboration with researchers from the social sciences, arts, science and medicine from across both the city’s universities.

Thu 02 Jul 2020, 12:37 | Tags: HealthSciences HS_APC

‘Morning sickness’ is misleading and inaccurate, new study argues

The term ‘morning sickness’ is misleading and should instead be described as nausea and sickness in pregnancy, argue researchers from WMS who have demonstrated that these symptoms can occur at any time of the day – not just the morning.

Tue 30 Jun 2020, 13:11 | Tags: news HS_APC

Warwick Primary Care Researcher wins Yvonne Carter Award

The Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher has been awarded to Dr Sarah Mitchell. Sarah recently gained her PhD here at WMS, supervised by Prof Jeremy Dale. It is especially exciting that Sarah should receive this award, as Yvonne Carter was Dean of Warwick Medical School from 2004 to 2009.

Mon 29 Jun 2020, 12:14 | Tags: news HealthSciences HS_APC

Including patients in hospital discharge communication would improve outcomes of care

A new study by WMS researchers shows that sending discharge letters to patients as well as their GPs when they leave hospital could make a substantial difference to patient outcomes.

Mon 22 Jun 2020, 11:01 | Tags: news HS_APC

Care Companion demonstrates vital role of online resources in carers’ wellbeing during lockdown

The role that online resources have played in supporting the wellbeing of unpaid carers and keeping them connected during the COVID-19 lockdown is being highlighted this week by the WMS team behind Care Companion.

Wed 10 Jun 2020, 08:29 | Tags: news HealthSciences HS_APC

GP practices keen to improve patient and staff health by linking with local parkrun events, survey by WMS shows

Building connections between GP practices and local parkrun events could help to improve the health and wellbeing of patients and staff, finds a new study by Warwick Medical School.

Wed 03 Jun 2020, 11:46 | Tags: news HS_APC

Online tool for carers demonstrated for Minister of State for Care

A new tool developed by Warwick Medical School to help carers manage the daily challenges of life when caring for a friend or loved one has been presented to the Minister of State for Care at Westminster.

Tue 04 Feb 2020, 12:08 | Tags: news HS_APC

Over 40% of GPs intend to quit within five years

A new study by our researchers has revealed that over 40% of GPs intend to leave general practice over the next five years - an increase of nearly a third since 2014.

Mon 04 Mar 2019, 09:24 | Tags: news WPC HS_APC

This week's press covering

This week's press coverage


The Guardian, the BBC and many others featured work by Ola Uthman on female genital mutilation.

Church Times featured an article by Reverend Mark Bratton on the film The Children Act, which tackles some profound medical-ethical issues.
 
Community Practitioner reported that a study from the University of Warwick by Dr Joanna Garstang and Dr Peter Sidebotham analysed the causes of sudden unexpected deaths in infants (SUDIs) in England.

 

Thu 15 Nov 2018, 15:51 | Tags: HS_PET HS_STATS HS_APC HS_Rehab HS_Ethics

War, lack of democracy and urbanisation contribute to double burden of malnutrition in adolescents in developing countries

A new study from Warwick Medical School blames macro-level factors for the double burden of malnutrition among adolescents in developing countries.

Wed 27 Jun 2018, 13:36 | Tags: news HS_APC

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