
Simon de Lusignan
@lusignan_s
Academic GP, doing respiratory disease surveillance, research & quality improvement using routine data + how to incorporate technology into clinical practice.
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https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/about/fellows/simon-de-lusignan/ 05-12-2012 08:28:19
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Nice to see this review published academic.oup.com/ndt/advance-ar… It illustrates the need for more real world evidence studies to compliment studies in CKD run on some higher risk patient groups. Clinical Informatics OxPrimaryCareSci

Fantastic to see the protocol for our extended sentinel surveillance for 23/24 published publichealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e52047 This is a fantastic partnership between OxPrimaryCareSci - @RCGP - UK Health Security Agency - General Practices who share pseudonymised data & so many other partners. Thanks to all!

Thanks to all who contributed to this COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) study journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-… It demonstrates the success, but also how in some risk groups, comorbidities, frailty, immunosuppressed VE was lower. Clinical Informatics Royal College of General Practitioners .


COVID-19 is the predominant circulating virus detected by the Royal College of General Practitioners RSC - sentinel network - in England. Thanks to our excellent practices for collecting data and samples and colleagues OxPrimaryCareSci UK Health Security Agency Predominantly in adult age-bands.


Our recent publication nature.com/articles/s4154… illustrates their is scope for us in primary care to boost vaccination in pregnant women. As ever thanks to Clinical Informatics Royal College of General Practitioners and for GPs sharing data. RSV vaccine is now available to further boost protection UK Health Security Agency

A short podcast about Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and the RSV vaccination programme in the UK elearning.rcgp.org.uk/rsv released by Royal College of General Practitioners Learning. Clinical Informatics OxPrimaryCareSci RSV can be a real winter season problem and this is the first year of UK vaccination.

Data quality is important in computerised medical records. Coding acute respiratory infections (ARI) is important if Clinical Informatics are going to identify winter pressures, outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics. @RCGP OxPrimaryCareSci UK Health Security Agency How do do it right eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…


COVID-19 remains the predominant circulating virus as the new school year starts, particularly in working age people. Thanks to our fantastic general practices collecting all-year-round virology samples. Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics OxPrimaryCareSci UK Health Security Agency


Great to see these three excellent Clinical Informatics OxPrimaryCareSci at #ISPEAnnual2024 Well done Xinchun, Bernardo and Jose! Fantastic to see so much data on those posters, well done!

The 40th anniversary management panel Green Templeton College detail at gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-event… set out how leading needed include time for reflection, to take the long term view and have ethnical values including faith based leadership. Leading without these..

Great to see the ObeservatARI study presented WONCA Europe in Dublin. Exciting to see the hard work of Clinical Informatics and OxPrimaryCareSci presented by Dr Uy Hoang. There may a role for point of care virology testing, linked to high quality clinical data informing about disease burden.


Thanks to patients & practices who supported the RSV ComNet burden of disease study Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics UK Health Security Agency It is now published at authors.elsevier.com/a/1kPic7tFB1Xh… The study quantifies across five European countries how respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has a substantial societal burden

Maybe time that we started to give greater recognition to general practitioners as the custodians of their patients lifelong medical records. This The British Journal of General Practice editorial gives my and primary care colleagues thoughts. bjgp.org/content/75/752…


Influenza remains the predominant circulating virus through weeks 6 to 9. Thanks to excellent Royal College of General Practitioners Research & Surveillance Centre GPs for virology sampling to support Clinical Informatics and UK Health Security Agency health protection & assessment of vaccine effectiveness.


Delighted to be giving the Ian Watson memorial lecture, in Guildford, the evening of 19th June. Booking details are at: sforce.co/3XJGk7i Ian, President of Royal College of General Practitioners founded an Epidemic Centre, the forerunner of our current sentinel network, the RSC.

It is very challenging to rank the increased COVID-19 risk associated with conditions that impair your immune system. This study takes a big step towards doing this doi.org/10.1016/j.ecli… Well done! Clinical Informatics