Primary Care research is part of the Health Sciences Research Group
within the School of Community Based Medicine

Primary Care

About the research

GP examining patient

What we do

Mission

To improve primary health care through high quality teaching and research

Aims

Our aims are to:
  • deliver high quality research to inform the development of primary health care
  • communicate research findings to promote the development of evidence-based primary health care
  • deliver high quality education and training to support primary health care research and development

Challenges

Our research and teaching addresses challenges of enduring importance to primary care, including the need to:
  • improve equity in health and health care provision
  • enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of primary care through improved commissioning
  • make better use of available human resources
  • improve the quality of care, giving more attention to patient self-care

Themes

Our research is organised around a number of research themes, although there are many links between these themes. For further details on the aims, projects and staff within each theme, see:

Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)

The RAE results classified 80% of the group's research in each of the two top international categories with 40% rated 4* (world leading) and 40% 3* internationally excellent.

PhD students

Postgraduate opportunities

    • View: CLAHRC PhD student video profiles
      What do current Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) PhD students think about the programme?