Professor Clare J Taylor MBE PhD FRCGP

Professor Clare J Taylor

Institute of Applied Health Research
Professor of General Practice

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Email
c.j.taylor.1@bham.ac.uk
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@clarejtaylor
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Institute of Applied Health Research
Murray Learning Centre
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Clare J Taylor is Professor of General Practice at the University of Birmingham and a GP in the NHS. Her research focuses on earlier diagnosis and improving prognosis for people with heart failure in primary care using big GP datasets.

Professor Taylor has received grant and fellowship funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Wellcome Trust, and British Heart Foundation. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals, including British Medical Journal and European Heart Journal, and her research has informed international heart failure guidelines.

Professor Taylor is an experienced lecturer and supervisor at undergraduate, masters and PhD level. She also held senior leadership positions at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) as Chair of their Associates in Training Committee and Lead of the First5 initiative and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Chronic Heart Failure guideline committee.

Professor Taylor was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to General Practice in 2015 and recently awarded the prestigious RCGP John Fry Award 2023 for promoting the discipline of general practice through research and publishing.

ORCiD: 0000-0001-8926-2581

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Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, 2015
  • Fellowship (FRCGP), Royal College of General Practitioners, 2015
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning, University of Birmingham, 2012
  • Masters in Public Health (Distinction), University of Birmingham, 2010
  • Membership (MRCGP), Royal College of General Practitioners, 2009
  • Membership (MRCP), Royal College of Physicians, 2006
  • Bachelor of Medicine (Distinction) and Surgery, University of Cambridge, 2003
  • Bachelor of Arts (2:1), University of Cambridge, 2000

Teaching

Professor Taylor was lecturer and lead for the MSc in Primary Care Heart Failure module, community-based medicine tutor and senior clinical examiner at the University of Birmingham and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning.

She currently supervises undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students, and is a Fellow and academic advisor at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. She also writes blogs and infographics to ensure her research is accessible for the busy GP.

Research

Clare Taylor ECHOES study - heart failure

Other activities

Professor Taylor has experience in senior leadership and policy roles. She chaired the Associates in Training committee at RCGP and established and led the RCGP First5 initiative to support new GPs in their first five years of practice. She was also on RCGP Council and the Society for Academic Primary Care Executive Board, and a member of the NICE Chronic Heart Failure guideline committee 2018.

Professor Taylor is a current member of:

  • Dutch Heart Foundation Independent Scientific Advisory Board
  • RCGP Research Paper of the Year Committee
  • European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society Board
  • NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee for Chronic Heart Failure
  • British Society of Heart Failure Education and Training Committee
  • Clinical Advisory Board for the patient-led heart failure charity Pumping Marvellous Foundation.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Jones, NR, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Roalfe, AK, Taylor, KS, Goyder, CR, Hobbs, FR & Taylor, CJ 2023, 'Body mass index and survival in people with heart failure', Heart, vol. 109, no. 20, pp. 1542-1549. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322459

Goyder, CR, Roalfe, AK, Jones, NR, Taylor, KS, Plumptre, CD, James, O, Fanshawe, TR, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, CJ 2023, 'Diagnostic accuracy of natriuretic peptide screening for left ventricular systolic dysfunction in the community: systematic review and meta-analysis', ESC heart failure, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 1643-1655. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14314

Shrikrishna, D, Taylor, CJ, Stonham, C & Gale, CP 2023, 'Exacerbating the burden of cardiovascular disease: how can we address cardiopulmonary risk in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?', European Heart Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad669

Roalfe, AK, Taylor, CJ & Hobbs, FDR 2023, 'Long term changes in health-related quality of life for people with heart failure: the ECHOES study', ESC heart failure, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 211-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14182

Taylor, CJ, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Lay-Flurrie, SL, Goyder, CR, Taylor, KS, Jones, NR, Roalfe, AK & Hobbs, FDR 2023, 'Natriuretic peptide testing and heart failure diagnosis in primary care: diagnostic accuracy study', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 73, no. 726, pp. e1-e8. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2022.0278

Jones, NR, Crawford, W, Yang, Y, Hobbs, FDR, Taylor, CJ & Petrou, S 2022, 'A Systematic Review of Economic Aspects of Service Interventions to Increase Anticoagulation Use in Atrial Fibrillation', Thrombosis and Haemostasis, vol. 122, no. 3, pp. 394-405. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1515-9428

Hirst, JA, Taal, MW, Fraser, SDS, Mena, JMO, O’Callaghan, CA, Mcmanus, RJ, Taylor, CJ, Yang, Y, Ogburn, E & Hobbs, FDR 2022, 'Change in glomerular filtration rate over time in the Oxford Renal Cohort Study: observational study', British Journal of General Practice, vol. 72, no. 717, pp. E261-E268. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.0477

Lin, H, Hartley, P, Forsyth, F, Pilling, M, Hobbs, FDR, Taylor, CJ, Schiff, R & Deaton, C 2022, 'Clinical and demographic correlates of accelerometer-measured physical activity in participants enrolled in the OPTIMISE HFpEF study', European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 67–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvab028

Charman, SJ, Okwose, NC, Taylor, CJ, Bailey, K, Fuat, A, Ristic, A, Mant, J, Deaton, C, Seferovic, PM, Coats, AJS, Hobbs, FDR, Macgowan, GA & Jakovljevic, DG 2022, 'Feasibility of the cardiac output response to stress test in suspected heart failure patients', Family Practice, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 805-812. https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmab184

Roalfe, AK, Lay-Flurrie, SL, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Goyder, CR, Jones, NR, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, CJ 2022, 'Long term trends in natriuretic peptide testing for heart failure in UK primary care: A cohort study', European Heart Journal, vol. 43, no. 9, pp. 881-891. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab781

Taylor, CJ, Lay-Flurrie, SL, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Goyder, CR, Jones, NR, Roalfe, AK & Hobbs, FDR 2022, 'Natriuretic peptide level at heart failure diagnosis and risk of hospitalisation and death in England 2004–2018', Heart, vol. 108, no. 7, pp. 543-549. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319196

Chami, J, Fleming, S, Taylor, CJ, Bankhead, CR, James, T, Shine, B, McLellan, J, Hobbs, FDR & Perera, R 2022, 'Point-of-care NT-proBNP monitoring for heart failure: observational feasibility study in primary care', BJGP Open, vol. 6, no. 3, BJGPO.2022.0005. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2022.0005

Busa, I, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Yang, Y, Wolstenholme, J, Petrou, S, Taylor, CJ, O’Callaghan, CA, Fraser, SDS, Taal, MW, Mcmanus, RJ, Hirst, JA & Hobbs, FDR 2022, 'Quality of life in older adults with chronic kidney disease and transient changes in renal function: Findings from the Oxford Renal cohort', PLOS One, vol. 17, no. 10, e0275572. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275572

Comment/debate

Taylor, CJ 2023, 'Author response', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 73, no. 727, pp. 58. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp23X731829

Editorial

Taylor, CJ 2023, 'Earlier heart failure diagnosis in primary care', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 73, no. 726, pp. 4-5. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp23X731481

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Expertise

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