Dr Manbinder Sidhu

• FHEA            University of Leicester, 2018
• PhD              Health Services Research, University of Birmingham, 2012
• BA (Hons)    Sociology, University of Birmingham, 2009 

Since joining HSMC in 2018, Manbinder has developed research interests in the areas of evaluating primary care policy, the development of new models of integrated care in the UK, and the role of learning networks and communities of practice to bring change in clinical practice.

His methodological interests are primarily qualitative in capturing different workforce and patient perspectives using interviews and observations. Manbinder also has an interest in rapid synthesis and evaluation.

Manbinder has published widely across these research areas and takes a particular interest in connecting these experiences to different theories of policy, re-organisation of care, and social theory.

Manbinder has wide ranging teaching interests. He works across a range postgraduate modules in relation to evaluation, primary care, quality and safety, organisational improvement.

MSc Health Policy and Management

• Module Co-Lead, Quality and Safety

Dr Sidhu is interested in supervising doctoral researchers who plan to use qualitative methods/rapid methodology in whole or parts of their research projects. He is particularly interested in the following areas: 

• Primary care
• Quality and safety
• Organisational collaboration

Recent projects have included:

• Vertical integration of GP practices with acute hospitals in England: follow up rapid evaluation, NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
• Remote home monitoring (virtual wards) during the COVID-19 pandemic NIHR RSET and BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
• A mixed methods rapid evaluation investigating the use of pulse oximetry in care homes across England to manage residents with COVID-19 and long-term health conditions, NIHR RSET and BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
• Children and Young People's Mental Health Trailblazer programme, NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
• Digital first primary care (DFPC) for those with multiple long-term conditions: The views of patients, carers and health professionals, NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
• Early evidence of the development of primary care networks in England: a rapid evaluation study, NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre
  
• General Practice Quality Improvement Evaluation

• A regular peer reviewer for several journals and funding bodies