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User personas to capture disadvantage
User personas can illuminate the multiple and intersecting dimensions of disadvantage in marginalised patient populations, and may prove useful when designing or redesigning digital primary care services. Equity is an important core value in primary care, but meeting the needs of patients who are multiply disadvantaged is increasingly difficult as services become more digitised. This study explores the lived experience of digital disparities in disadvantaged patients and advocates for using user personas as design tools to address these disparities in healthcare.
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Friday 22 March 2024 | 09:30 - 17:30 | London
This year's BJGP Research & Publishing Conference programme is packed-full! We have two keynote speakers, three workshops and six topic streams for the oral presentations. There will also be plenty of opportunity to network with peers, as we bring together researchers and authors of the future.
Did you know, the William Pickles Lecture will be taking place the day before, at 18:30? This year we are delighted to award this honour to Professor Joe Rosenthal.
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Asthma: post-hospitalisation care
After asthma-related hospitalisation, a significant proportion of patients do not receive timely follow-up in primary care, according to new research. These findings, based on over 17,000 primary care records, contribute to explaining why asthma-related hospitalisations remain high in the UK, particularly among patients from Black ethnic minority groups. Only 60% of patients had received some form of asthma care from their GP surgery within 28 days of being discharged from hospital. This research offers tips for prevention of further exacerbations in post-hospitalised asthma patients.
More than medical notes: creating 'continuity'
In the absence of relational continuity, how can clinicians, patients, and the health care system create the experience of joined up, continuous primary care? New research explores this question and finds that primary care clinicians need more than just medical notes to provide patients with seamless care. Multiple connected patient, clinician, and system factors are important for a patient to have the experience of continuity. Considering these factors in the design of primary care systems may have the potential to provide more joined up, seamless care for patients.