📣New scoping review on preconception health policies, strategies and guidelines in the UK & Ireland - providing a really helpful overview of existing resources and approaches to improve preconception health and care. 🔗rdcu.be/dLCTs 🎉Emma Hope Cassinelli (ANutr) Laura McGowan

Some really inspiring presentations this morning from University of Leicester SAPPHIRE research at the Bangor summer school 👏🏼 Merissa Elizabeth Hickman Chandini Subramanyam

Great presentation by Merissa Elizabeth Hickman and her developing project on improving preconception care and tackling policy issues within this area. SAPPHIRE research Bangor University University of Leicester

Thank you Lucy Swancott. Today was an excellent opportunity to share my developing project in Preconception Health and Care in England at the Bangor University Health and Care Research Summer School Thank you to the delegates and leaders for the questions, and interesting insights.

Excellent to hear about the Scoping Review conducted by Lucy Swancott and colleagues at SAPPHIRE research. A wonderful talk Bangor University and I will be keeping an eye out for the upcoming publication!

Grateful to have been an external speaker at the MGS ESRC DTP 'Change and Social Impact Conference' held University of Leicester SAPPHIRE research

Natalie Armstrong, Dr Elizabeth Ann Sutton & Prof Carolyn Tarrant present learnings from papers on falls prevention and visual identifiers for people living with dementia, explaining that putting people into categories isn’t necessarily a path to better care. bit.ly/3TWJDFj

📄Our new paper The British Journal of General Practice shows routine primary care data are a valuable resource for preconception health and care research, especially when linked with other data sources. Now to make this happen! bjgp.org/content/early/… Primary Care Research Centre

Register now! HiPPP EMR-C invites you to attend a 1-day hybrid conference on “Prevention across the reproductive lifespan: collaborating with stakeholders to optimise Health in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum” Oct 14th, 9:30am-4:30pm AEST eventbrite.com.au/e/2024-hybrid-…

Do you know what you’re going to submit for this year’s UK Preconception EMCR Network conference? Get your abstract ready😄 Conference info: ukpreconceptionpartnership.co.uk/events/uk-conf…

🤔What does ‘preconception health’ mean to people? Not yet peer-reviewed, but here is our new paper on the public consultation we did to develop language recommendations to inform research and improve public awareness of preconception health. Preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

The Preconception EMCR Network 2024 Conference. Dr Velivasis will be giving the Keynote on 'The Role of Preconception and Interconception Care in Women with Mental Illness'. 🗓️ Thursday 14th November (BST) 📍Leicester & online 🔗bit.ly/3XT1Xkq #PreconceptionEMCR2024

Introducing the first of our Policy Hubs: Health le.ac.uk/research/insti… Health issues are at the forefront of the policy agenda and were a top priority in the recent general election campaign We are here to help inform policy and tackle the pressing issues that face us today

1 WEEK LEFT to submit your abstract to The UK Preconception EMCR Network 2024 Conference. We look forward to hearing about your research! forms.gle/sZghCZKVRAvDLq… 🗓️ Thursday 14 November 10.30 - 16.30pm (BST) 📍Leicester & online 🔗 bit.ly/3XT1Xkq

Don't forget to submit your abstract by Wednesday! 💡 #PreconceptionEMCR2024

Upcoming Masterclass! 📝 Join us on 25th Sept, for a session on navigating the politics and ethics of research-policy engagement, looking at how facts and values are inseparable and how to approach this dilemma. Sign up here 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclass-…

Upcoming Masterclass! 📝 Join us on 25th Sept, for a session on navigating the politics and ethics of research-policy engagement, looking at how facts and values are inseparable and how to approach this dilemma. Sign up here 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/masterclass-…

Registration for our ECR workshop and the European Conference on Preconception Health and Care closes this Sunday 1 September. Looking forward to connecting as an international preconception health & care community! Don’t miss out!

‘Preconception care' supports women and their partners to improve their health before pregnancy and parenthood 🤰👪 A new project led by our BRC, University of Southampton and UCL-IfWH reveals that the term is not well understood. Read more: southamptonbrc.nihr.ac.uk/post/researche…

It's great to see such an important and well-needed study being conducted. If you're a HCP based in England working with families accessing prenatal testing, please reach out to Michelle Peter