We conduct research which answers important quality and safety questions in primary care. Our research aims to improve primary care systems to produce meaningful impacts on patient care and health policy. Our novel research on improving patients health literacy as a patient safety strategy is supported through our PPI-E networks. We have links with Warwick Business School to support this theme by providing human factors and NHS management expertise.

Current research includes:

• Implementation of decarbonisation actions in General Practice to help achieve a net zero NHS (GPNET-0). A mixed methods study of institutional, organisational, professional, and patient factorsLink opens in a new window

• General Practice Management After Transition Events (GP-MATE) -Link opens in a new window Developing an intervention to assist older patients’ communication with their GP practice after discharge from hospital in order to improve patient safety
• HEAL-D (Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles for Diabetes)Link opens in a new window: a multicentre, pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of culturally tailored versus standard diabetes self-management programmes in Black-African and Black-Caribbean adults with type 2 diabetes

• Developing an inclusive health research system: a realist evaluation of participation in health research with people of African-Caribbean heritage in the UKLink opens in a new window

Recently completed research includes:

• A patient survey and stakeholder workshop exploring the General Practice Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (GP CPCS)Link opens in a new window
• GARFIELD-AF in Primary Care: Optimising prediction of mortality, stroke and major bleeding for patients with atrial fibrillation using routinely collected primary care electronic recordsLink opens in a new window
• Pharmacy-Based Sexual Health Services in the UK
• Exploring the challenges of becoming a parent in Coventry during the Covid-19 pandemicLink opens in a new window
  
• The Discharge Communication Study: An investigation of written discharge communication between hospital clinicians, GPs, and patients
• An international longitudinal registry of patients with atrial fibrillation at risk of stroke (GARFIELD): the UK studyLink opens in a new window
• Post-CCT GP Fellowships in Urgent and Acute Care. Evaluation of pilots in the West Midlands and transfer to London and South-EastLink opens in a new window
• Resilience ProgrammeLink opens in a new window
• Understanding career plans of GPs.

To learn more about the projects detailed here contact the research theme lead,

Dr Rachel Spencer

r dot spencer dot 2 at warwick dot ac dot uk