Department of Primary Health Care

Welcome to the Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, which is part of the University of Oxford's Medical Sciences Division.

We aim for excellence in teaching and research and the department is one of the five founding members of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research.

Our primary research focus is on the prevention, early diagnosis and management of common illness in general practice - particularly childhood infection, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.