The NIHR School for Primary Care Research, founded in October 2006 and with a revised membership from 1st October 2009, is a partnership between the eight leading academic centres for primary care research in England. The Director of the School is Professor Richard Hobbs (University of Oxford).
Other partners in the School are:
The School is supported by Dr Georgina Fletcher, georgina.fletcher@phc.ox.ac.uk Senior Scientific Manager.
The School’s main aim is to increase the evidence base for primary care practice. We will achieve this through:
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high quality research to inform the development of clinical practice in primary care;
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strategic leadership to support the development of primary care research.
Our research has five programmes:
1. Prevention and early diagnosis of serious disease
2. Monitoring and management of patients with long term conditions
3. Co-morbidity and patient centred outcomes
4. New approaches to patient practitioner interaction
5. New research methods for primary care
The NIHR School for Primary Care Research is funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Further information about the NIHR can be found at www.nihr.ac.uk