News
Media Coverage
The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership Module 3 has been features on the BBC News website. Professor Richard Neal contributed to this piece of work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32901139
NCRI Conference 2014
Tania Seale (Pictured below) received the NCRI Prize Award for her Diagnostic Journeys in Myeloma poster at the NCRI 2014 conference in Liverpool.
New Publications
Rose PW, Rubin G, Perrera-Salazar R, Almberg SS, Barisic A, Dawes M, Grunfeld E, Hart N, Neal RD, Pirotta M, Sisler J, Toftegaard BS, Thulesius H, Vedsted P, Young J, Hamilton W. Explaining variation in cancer survival between eleven jurisdictions in the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership: a primary care survey. BMJ Open (accepted)
Watson E, Shinkins B, Frith E, Neal D, Hamdy F, Walter F, Weller D, Wilkinson C, Faithfull S. Wolstenholme J. Sooriakumaran P, Kastner C, Campbell C, Neal RD, Butcher H, Matthews M, Perera R, Russell S, Rose P. Symptoms, unmet needs, psychological well-being and health status in prostate cancer survivors: implications for redesigning follow-up. BJU Int (accepted)
Shephard E, Neal RD, Rose P, Walter F, Hamilton W. Quantifying the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma in symptomatic primary care patients: a case-control study using electronic records. BJGP (accepted)
Rubin GP, Saunders CL, Abel GA, MacPhail S, Lyratzopoulos G, Neal RD. Impact of investigations in general practice on timeliness of referral for patients subsequently diagnosed with cancer: evidence from a National Audit of Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care. British Journal of Cancer 2015 1-12 doi 10.1038/bjc.2014.634
Lyratzopoulos G, Saunders CL, Abel GA, MacPhail S, Neal RD, Wardle J, Rubin GP. The relative length of the patient and the primary care interval in 28 common and rarer cancers. British Journal of Cancer (2015); 1-6; doi: 10.1038/bjc.2015.40
Neal RD, Tharmanathan P, France B, Din NU, Cotton S, Fallon-Ferguson J, Hamilton W, Hendry A, Hendry M, Lewis R, Macleod U, Mitchell ED, Pickett M, Rai T, Shaw K, Stuart N, Tørring ML, Wilkinson C, Williams B, Williams N, Emery J. Is increased time to diagnosis and treatment in symptomatic cancer associated with poorer outcomes? Systematic review. British Journal of Cancer (2015); 1-16; doi: 10.1038/bjc.2015.48
Neal RD, Robbé IJ, Lewis M, Williamson I, Hanson J. The complexity and difficulty of diagnosing lung cancer: findings from a national primary care study in Wales. Primary Health Care Research & Development. Prim Health Care Res Dev2014 Dec 8:1-14. DOI:10.1017/S1463423614000516
Neal RD, Rogers T, Hamilton W. Easily Missed? Lung Cancer BMJ 2014;349:g6560
Shephard E, Neal RD, Fiona W, Rose P, Hamilton W. Quantifying the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma from symptoms reported by primary care patients: A large case-control study using electronic records.2015; DOI: 10.3399/bjgp15X683545
Bulger JK, Hiscock J, Neal RD, Stanciu A, Makin M, Wilkinson C. ‘Carrying on the way we are, is becoming shambolic’ An interview study with prostate cancer specialists about their usual practice of follow-up. Journal of Clinical Urology. DOI: 10.1177/2051415814545804
Teaching
The North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research are now involded with the teaching of the new BMedSci course at Bangor University. The aim of the Medical Sciences BMedSci degree is to provide a science programme related to medicine with strong professional skills/ethics and research elements. Our role is to supervise 2nd and 3rd year students with their research project proposals