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Project 770 | Building Momentum: Extending Inclusive Research Engagement in Primary Care

Project dates: 01/10/2025 - 30/09/2026 Phase: PPIE Project 770 Research Team Dr Jane Vennik Dr Sascha Miller Lead Institution Funded amount £5,000 Funding round PPIE Aims Our department wants to make sure everyone has a fair chance to be involved in health research. We already…

June 30, 2026

Project 749 | Understanding the diagnostic referral activity and consequences in advanced practice physiotherapists working in primary care settings, a mixed methods realist evaluation

Project dates: 01/04/2025 - 30/11/2026 Phase: FR 12 Project 749 Research Team Dr Rob Goodwin Lead Institution Funded amount £60,592 Funding round FR 12 Background   Physiotherapists are often working in places like GP practices. It is common for them to use new and advanced skills. For…

June 30, 2026

Project 743 | Continuity of care in general practice multi-disciplinary teams: understanding the impact of pharmacy roles and measuring continuity across the wider team

Project dates: 01/04/2025 - 31/10/2026 Phase: FR 12 Project 743 Research Team Dr Nada Khan Lead Institution Funded amount 64,515 Funding round FR 12   Traditional general practice care involves a family doctor, or GP, looking after a group or a list of patients. This allows GPs and…

June 29, 2026

Project 737 | Public perceptions of the future of Primary Care: Enhancing the role of public contributors as participatory peer co-researchers through a peer-facilitated survey.

Project dates: 01/04/2025 - 30/09/2026 Phase: FR 12 Project 737 Research Team Jessica Drinkwater Lead Institution Funded amount 50,000 Funding round FR 12 Aims   Background The government want to improve the NHS by moving to a “Neighbourhood Health Service” and bringing back the “family doctor”. They suggest…

June 29, 2026

Project 211 | An analytical framework for increasing the efficiency and validity of research using primary care databases

Project dates: 01/01/2014 - 30/09/2015 Phase: FR8 Project 211 Research Team Professor Evangelos Kontopantelis Lead Institution Funded amount £10,000 Funding round FR 8 Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are generally regarded as the ‘gold standard’ for research into patient health, however there are many research questions for which…

April 6, 2026

Project 208 | The Bristol archive project

Project dates: 06/01/2014 - 30/09/2015 Phase: FR8 Project 208 Research Team Professor Rebecca Barnes Lead Institution Funded amount £77,491 Funding round FR 8 The proposal seeks to collect recordings of ‘live’ primary care encounters, plus related data about their immediate and intermediate outcomes, to be stored as…

April 6, 2026

Project 170 | ATAFUTI

Project dates: 01/10/2015 - 31/07/2017 Phase: FR10 Project 170 Research Team Professor Michael Moore Lead Institution Funded amount £358,298 Funding round FR 10 Antibiotic resistance is rising and linked to prescribing in primary care. It is a national priority to try and reduce prescribing antibiotics where possible…

April 6, 2026

Project 269 | Evidence synthesis for economic decision models of primary care diagnostics

Project dates: 01/10/2015 - 31/07/2016 Phase: FR9 Project 269 Research Team Dr Tom Fanshawe Lead Institution Funded amount £13,500 Funding round FR 9 Diagnosing conditions in general practice is particularly challenging because cases of serious disease are rare and patients typically visit their GP in the very…

April 5, 2026

Project 260 | Investigation of the factors behind the training choices of junior doctors which result in inadequate recruitment to general practice careers.

Project dates: 01/10/2015 - 30/09/2017 Phase: FR9 Project 260 Research Team Dr Sharon Spooner Lead Institution Funded amount £70,993 Funding round FR 9 It has become increasingly clear that there is a problem with GP recruitment. An insufficient proportion of junior doctors are choosing to train for…

April 5, 2026

Project 274 | Southampton communication study (SoCS): managing multiple health concerns

Project dates: 16/11/2015 - 14/11/2016 Phase: FR9 Project 274 Research Team Dr Geraldine Leydon Lead Institution Funded amount £35,588 Funding round FR 9 Patients often attend GP appointments with more than one health concern. Evidence suggests patients can find it difficult to voice all of their problems.

April 5, 2026