Imperial College London Primary Care

The department hosted a visit today from Professor Peter Chang from the Taipei Medical University in Taiwan. Professor Chang is Secretary General of the Executive Board of the Asian Health Literacy Association (AHLA).

On Tuesday 31 March 2015, the Depa rtment pf Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London hosted a visit from representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's India Office (BMGF India). We discussed a range of topics including the education of medical students and the training of doctors to support the deliver of high-quality evidence-based medicine. We also discussed how inter-professional working could be supported to strengthen health systems, make health care more accessible, and improve health outcomes and public health. The programme aand preenters are listed below. Welcome to Department of Primary Care and Public Health  Prof Azeem Majeed Why primary care is important for India and our objectives for the discussion Prof Mala Rao History and structure of the NHS, current NHS health reforms, funding (overall and for GP) Prof Christopher Millett Why academic departme...

It is with great sadness that we say a fond farewell to Dr Jenny Lebus who will be retiring at the end of June after 32 years of service at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College London and its predecessor medical schools. . Jenny began her academic teaching career when her trainer, Dr James Scobie, who was a GP tutor for the old Charing Cross Medical School, invited her to accompany him to a study day with the students. Her interest was ignited and she joined a department that at that time consisted of three people when General Practice occupied only one week of a five-year curriculum. Despite having no administrative support or funding to pay general practices, Jenny was successful in recruiting practices and saw the course and department steadily grow from humble beginnings. From that one week in Year 4, the course grew to two weeks in Year 4 and two weeks in Year 5, whilst also changing course names from Core 1 and Core 2, to General Practice and ...

Senior GP Teaching Fellow Dr Graham Easton from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care recently visited Ghana on behalf of the BBC World Service to host a radio debate on whether failed health systems in Africa make global epidemics - such as the recent Ebola outbreak - inevitable. The debate explored why the Ebola outbreak was able to spread so widely, and looked at broader lessons about containing local epidemics in today’s globalised world. The expert panel included the Liberian ambassador to the UK [formerly to Ghana], the World Health Organisation’s representative in Ghana, the Operations Director of Medicins Sans Frontieres, and the Communications Minister for Ghana, as well as about a hundred other invited guests from Ghana and the worst-affected countries. As well as co-hosting the debate with BBC Africa presenter Akwasi Sarpong, Graham was interviewed about Ebola on local radio stations, BBC partner stations across Africa, and contributed to a live special editi...

Congratulations to Tom Cowling from the Department of Primary Care and Public Health in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London for winning the the SAPC Early Career Researcher Prize at the 2015 South-East England Regional Meeting. Commenting on Tom's presentation , Jenni Burt from Cambridge University stated that: " There were some great presentations this year. I’ll single out Tom Cowling from Imperial College, who analysed national hospital administrative data to find that patients registered with general practices with poorer reported access had a higher rate of emergency admission to hospital via A&E than patients in practices with higher reported access. Much debate was had about the significance of this, but it was a really nice analysis: even Gary Abel our statistician said so, which is a rare accolade."

Every on in the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London was very pleased to learn that one of our academic general practitioners, Dr Ho Harris, has been appointed as Deputy Head of Undergraduate Medicine at Imperial College London, Dr Harris comments on her new role. "I am delighted to share with you my new appointment as Deputy Head of Undergraduate Medicine at Imperial College London. It is the first time that a General Practitioner has been appointed to a senior role in the school and shows that the medical school is committed to training future doctors in the speciality of Primary Care. Imperial College is keen to ensure our students are not only academically excellent but also well versed as generalists. In this role, it is exciting to have an overview of the whole six years of the course as well as start to think how our students could be better taught in the future. As the way medicine is practised changes with GPs seeing more complex ...

The Imperial College London School of Public Health held an away day for senior academic staff on 14-15 January 2015 at the Sir Christopher Wren Hotel in Windsor. A range of topics were discussed including strategic priorities and encouraging greater collaboration between different research groups. We agreed that future priorities would include a greater emphasis on the design and implementation of interventional public health and primary care programmes, and their evaluation.