UL to Host Major National Conference Exploring Policy - Practice links in Primary Care

The University of Limerick is set to host a major national conference exploring policy-practice links in primary care. The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association of University Departments of General Practice in Ireland, will take place on Friday 8th March and is being organised by Professor of Primary Healthcare Research Anne MacFarlane and Professor of General Practice Walter Cullen.

The conference will explore policy-practice links with a plenary by Professor Catherine O’ Donnell from the University of Glasgow on the complexities of developing and implementing evidence based policy to inform health care practice. A second plenary by the Foundation Head of the Graduate Entry Medical School, Professor Paul Finucane, will focus on the role of policy and other factors on the implementation of educational policy for healthcare with an emphasis on the development of the GEMS.

Speaking in advance, Professor Anne MacFarlane, University of Limerick said; “This conference brings together researchers from Academic Departments of General Practice in UCC, NUI G, UCD, TCD, RCSI and QUB. Our aim is to showcase current work in relation to clinical issues such as prescribing patterns, diabetes and heart disease as well as broader issues that shape primary care practice such as service user involvement and the use of health technologies.
In all over 20 academics will present current work and there are over 40 poster presentations.