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New partnership with RCGP to deliver physical activity and lifestyle clinical priority

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New partnership with RCGP to deliver physical activity and lifestyle clinical priority

Physical activity and lifestyle is the latest clinical priority to be announced by the Royal College of General Practitioners, with a programme of work planned for the next three years.

The programme is to be run in partnership with Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, which won the competitive process to deliver the work. It aims to support primary care professionals with reliable, evidence-based information to prevent and manage lifestyle-related diseases.

Read more (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)

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