‘It’s not just thrush’: Navigating recurrent vulvovaginal thrush in primary care

About this episode

Dr. Tori Ford discusses her research on recurrent vulvovaginal thrush and its implications in primary care.

Today, we’re speaking to Dr Tori Ford, a qualitative researcher based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Title of papers: ‘Accumulative Experiences: Navigating Healthcare for Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush from Patient and Clinician Perspectives’ and ‘It’s not just thrush, it’s recurrent thrush’: Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Diagnosing Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2025.0437 and https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2025.0531 Transcript This transcript was generated using AI and has not been reviewed for accuracy. Please be aware it may contain errors or omissions. Speaker A 00:00:01.280 - 00:01:15.200 Hi, and welcome to BJGP Interviews. I'm Nada Khan and I'm one of the associate editors of the journal. Thanks again for listening to this podcast today. In today's episode, we're speaking to Dr. Tori Ford, who is a qualitative researcher based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. We're going to talk today about two linked papers that she and her team have published here in the bjgp. The first one is titled Accumulative Navigating…

People in this episode

Host: Nada Khan

Guest: Dr Tori Ford

Topics covered

• vulvovaginal thrush
• primary care
• healthcare navigation
• patient perspectives
• clinician perspectives

Keywords

• vulvovaginal thrush
• recurrent thrush
• primary care
• healthcare navigation
• patient perspectives
• clinician perspectives

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford

Books & works: Accumulative Experiences: Navigating Healthcare for Recurrent Vulvovaginal Thrush from Patient and Clinician Perspectives, It’s not just thrush, it’s recurrent thrush: Patient and Clinician Perspectives on Diagnosing Recurrent Vulvovaginal Candidiasis

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