Key staff in the Centre for Primary Care Improvement
To enable both practical improvement and robust transferable theory, the collaborative multi-disciplinary nature of our work means we have moved beyond traditional boundaries of individual academic discipline or discrete professional groups within the NHS.
The Centre will work as a genuine partnership that heeds the voice of all of our collaborators including patient groups and the private sector. In this way we can develop a framework for quality improvement interventions that better matches knowledge and skills to desired behaviours and habits.
College of Medicine and Health
Professor Tom Marshall (Theme Lead)
Professor Marshall is a public health physician and primary care researcher whose work focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention, quality improvement, and the use of electronic primary care records to improve diagnosis, prescribing, and service delivery.
Professor Taylor is a GP and leading primary care researcher whose work centres on earlier diagnosis and improving prognosis in heart failure, using large GP datasets, diagnostic research, and evidence synthesis to inform national and international guidelines.
Rachel Jordan Professor is of Epidemiology and Primary Care. Her research focuses on improving the prevention, diagnosis and management of respiratory diseases—particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)—through epidemiology, clinical trials and public health research.
Dr Hillman is a GP and Clinical Associate Professor whose research focuses on women’s health in primary care, using mixed‑methods approaches to study menopause, postnatal care, perineal trauma, and community‑based support for women’s health needs.
Dr Haroon is a clinical epidemiologist whose research focuses on long COVID, asthma, COPD, and chronic disease epidemiology, with wider interests in public health, primary care, and health data science.
Dr MacDonald is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer whose research examines women’s health in primary care, particularly the quality and content of postnatal care, maternal GP consultations, and infant feeding.
Dr Apenteng is an applied health researcher specialising in health inequalities, maternity care, and delays in cancer diagnosis, with methodological expertise in qualitative research, mixed‑methods studies, and cohort analysis.
Dr Fiona Scheibl
Dr Scheibl is a qualitative research fellow whose work focuses on understanding continuity of care, patient experience, and organisational factors shaping primary care delivery, contributing to mixed‑methods improvement research.
Dr Litchfield is a Senior Research Fellow whose research investigates health service delivery, using qualitative and quantitative methods to evaluate process improvement, technology‑enabled care, and redesign of primary and secondary care pathways.
Dr Willis is an GP specialising in diagnostic test research, with interests in diagnostic accuracy, meta‑analysis methods, and the translation of diagnostic evidence into primary care practice.
Dr Jackson is a GP and Associate Clinical Professor whose research examines medical education across undergraduate and postgraduate settings, with interests in supervisory relationships, professional identity formation, and inequalities in medical school preparation and selection.
Nicki Adderley is a Professor of Epidemiology and Real-World Evidence. She leads the multidisciplinary Health Informatics and Multimorbidity team in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, and is Deputy Lead for the Birmingham BRC Data, Diagnostics and Decision Tools theme.
Dr Alexander D'Elia
Dr D’Elia is Birmingham based GP with research interests in the equitable implementation of Artificial Intelligence in primary care.
College of Social Sciences
Dr Sidhu is an Associate Professor in health services research whose work evaluates primary care policy, new models of integrated care, and rapid service change, using qualitative and mixed‑methods approaches to understand organisational improvement and patient experience.