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Project 843 | Investigating research delivery in general practice

Project dates: 01/05/2026 - 31/10/2027 Phase: Responsive Mode Project 843 Research Team Dr Toby Helliwell Dr Hiyam Al-Jabr Lead Institution Funded amount £190,872.40 Funding round Responsive Mode A key objective for the 10 year NHS plan is to move healthcare from hospitals to communities and neighbourhoods. There…

August 26, 2026

Project 832 | The impact of continuity of care on GP job satisfaction

Project dates: 01/11/2026 - 31/01/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 832 Research Team Emma Mcmanus Lead Institution Funded amount £150,000 Funding round FR15 Exploring the impact of continuity of care on GP job satisfaction. Aim A lot of research has looked at the impact of patients seeing the same GP…

August 25, 2026

Project 820 | Co-designing Interventions to Address Violence and Abuse towards General Practice Staff

Project dates: 01/04/2026 - 30/09/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 820 Research Team Professor Shihning Chou Lead Institution Funded amount £2,000 Funding round PPIE This project aims to work with patients, carers, and general practice staff to co-design an intervention addressing violence and abuse towards practice staff. Building on findings…

August 25, 2026

Project 819 | Domestic abuse in the primary care workforce: coproducing training and involving under-served survivors

Project dates: 01/04/2026 - 28/02/2027 Phase: PPIE Project 819 Research Team Dr Sandi Dheensa Lead Institution Funded amount £2,000 Funding round PPIE In Autumn 2025, the PPI team and I co-established a multi-stakeholder Domestic Abuse in the Healthcare Profession (DA-HCP) Working Group with representation from the BMA, Royal…

August 25, 2026

Project 810 | Celebrating new roles for peer researchers in health research

Project dates: 01/04/2026 - 31/08/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 810 Research Team Dr Sarah Skyrme Lead Institution Funded amount £2,000 Funding round PPIE A celebration of our achievements during our participatory project ‘Public perceptions of the future of primary care’, disseminating our findings on the challenges and impacts of…

August 20, 2026

Project 520 | Exploring the role of community pharmacy teams in meeting primary care needs within marginalised communities since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project dates: 01/12/2021 - 30/06/2023 Phase: FR1 Project 520 Research Team Dr Kelly Howells Professor Caroline Sanders Professor Darren Ashcroft Lead Institution Funded amount £48,797 Funding round FR1 Background Community Pharmacies are based in high street stores, supermarkets and sometimes next door to the doctor’s surgery.

August 14, 2026

Project 568 | Assessing the contributions of additional role practitioners to general practice in England

Project dates: 01/04/2022 - 31/12/2026 Phase: FR2 Project 568 Research Team Dr Stavros Petrou Lead Institution Funded amount £625,396 Funding round FR2 Most patients who need non-emergency healthcare in England go to their local doctors’ surgeries, otherwise known as general practices. For several reasons general practices are getting…

August 14, 2026

Project 789 | Patient and public involvement in research focused on understanding the incidence and prevalence of acquired brain injury in children and young people

Project dates: 12/01/2026 - 31/12/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 789 Research Team Laila Tata Sophie Orchard Lead Institution Funded amount £2,115 Funding round PPIE Acquired brain injuries can happen after birth due to head trauma, impact or illnesses like tumours or infections. We do not know how…

June 30, 2026

Project 778 | The Patient Bridge Role: a new approach to involvement in large research programmes.

Project dates: 12/01/2026 - 30/11/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 778 Research Team Beccy Summers Lead Institution Funded amount £2,200 Funding round PPIE Patient and Public Involvement (PPI ) in research involves active collaboration between public members and researchers in equal partnership. PPI in health research ensures the research…

June 30, 2026

Project 772 | In Partnership: Connecting Communities and Primary Care Research

Project dates: 01/10/2025 - 30/04/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 772 Research Team Alisha Newman Lead Institution Funded amount £5,000 Funding round PPIE Aim We will test and learn from a new, community-led way of working that helps build and strengthen relationships between people from ethnically diverse communities and…

June 30, 2026