Professor Clare J Taylor MBE PhD FRCGP

Professor Clare J Taylor

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of General Practice

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c.j.taylor.1@bham.ac.uk
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@clarejtaylor
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Department of Applied Health Sciences
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

Goyder, C, Taylor, C, Newhouse, N, Pope, C, Hobbs, R & Hinton, L 2026, 'Conceptualising diagnostic liminality: A qualitative exploration of the journey to heart failure diagnosis', British Journal of General Practice .

Goyder, CR & Taylor, C 2026, 'Missing by omission: the hidden heart of cardiovascular inequity in the UK ', British Journal of General Practice .

Taylor, CJ, Taylor, KS, Jones, NR, Ordóñez‐Mena, JM, Bayes‐Genis, A & Hobbs, FDR 2025, 'Age‐adjusted natriuretic peptide thresholds for a diagnosis of heart failure in the community: Diagnostic accuracy study', ESC heart failure. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.15383

Taylor, C, Avery, AJ, Mughal, F, Kidd, M, Ahluwalia, S, Daines, L, Dubras, L, Harris, J, McManus, RJ, Wilkes, S, Hobbs, FDR & Sheikh, A 2025, 'Building Capacity in the Academic General Practice Research Workforce', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 75, no. 756, pp. 330-333. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2025.0089

Shrikrishna, D, Steer, J, Bostock, B, Dickinson, SW, Piwko, A, Ramalingam, S, Saggu, R, Stonham, CA, Storey, RF, Taylor, CJ, Thakkar, R & Gale, CP 2025, 'Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Management of Cardiopulmonary Risk in the UK: A Systematic Literature Review and Modified Delphi Study', International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, vol. 20, pp. 2073-2090. https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S523865

Paton, MF, Barton, C, Baruah, R, Hartshorne-Evans, N, Jenkins, GH, Potter, A, Robinson, S, Thakar, R, Zakeri, R & Taylor, C 2025, 'Echocardiography reporting in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Delphi consensus study', Open Heart, vol. 12, no. 1, e003063. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2024-003063

Lawson, CA, Ali, MR, McCann, GP, Squire, I, Zaccardi, F, Rashid, M, Barber, K, Kalajahi, RA, Miller, CA, Williams, R, Clark, AL, Petrie, MC, Taylor, CJ, Friday, JM, Conrad, N, Cleland, JGF & Khunti, KK 2025, 'Health inequalities and trends in heart failure diagnosis in primary care in England, 2000–21: a national retrospective cohort data-linkage study', The Lancet Primary Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanprc.2025.100060

Cuthbert, JJ, Lomax, S, Soyiri, I, Luo, E, Turgoose, J, Cohen, J, Fuat, A, Taylor, C & Clark, AL 2025, 'Loop diuretics, heart failure diagnosis and outcome in primary care', International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 435, 133386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2025.133386

Jones, NR, Taylor, KS, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Goyder, CR, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, CJ 2025, 'NT-proBNP testing for heart failure diagnosis in people with atrial fibrillation: A diagnostic accuracy study', PLoS Medicine, vol. 22, no. 10, e1004550. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004550

Jones, NR, Smith, M, Lay-Flurrie, S, Yang, Y, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, C 2025, 'Stroke incidence in heart failure and atrial fibrillation: population cohort study', British Journal of General Practice . https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2024.0470

Jones, NR, Smith, M, Yang, Y, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, CJ 2025, 'Trends in mortality in people with heart failure and atrial fibrillation: a population-based cohort study', The Lancet Healthy Longevity, vol. 6, no. 8, 100734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100734

Comment/debate

Bayés-Genis, A & Taylor, C 2025, 'Elevated NT-proBNP in Heart Failure and CKD: A Genuine Red Flag for Worse Prognosis—Not a False Positive', JACC: Heart Failure, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 40-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jchf.2024.10.012

Review article

Guideline Development Group and NICE development team, Miles, LM, Luckham, K, Mills, J, Mindham, R, Taylor, CJ & Piper, S 2026, 'Chronic heart failure in adults: diagnosis and management—summary of updated NICE guidance', BMJ, vol. 392, s266. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s266

Thaitirarot, C, Sze, S, Jones, N, Barker, J, Chan, A, Hobbs, FDR, Taylor, KS & Taylor, CJ 2026, 'Risk prediction models for detecting a new diagnosis of heart failure within 5 years in the community: a systematic review', BMJ Open, vol. 16, no. 1, e093419. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093419

Smith, CA, Taylor, KS, Jones, NR, Roth, D, Magona, A, Roberts, N, Taylor, CJ, Hobbs, FDR & Vazquez-Montes, MDLA 2025, 'Natriuretic peptides testing and survival prediction models for chronic heart failure: a systematic review of added prognostic value', Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, vol. 9, no. 1, 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41512-025-00210-x

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