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Research

Oxford University's primary care research rethinks the way that healthcare in the community is delivered to people locally, nationally and globally - helping them to manage their own health and reduce the numbers that need to be admitted to hospital. Across several programmes of work, our multidisciplinary team work in collaboration to address the contemporary issues in primary care.

Themes
Groups, centres and units

Health Behaviours

Health Behaviours

Patient Experience

Patient Experience

Cardiovascular and Metabolic

Cardiovascular and Metabolic

Infections and Acute Care

Infections and Acute Care

Evidence-Based Medicine and Research Methods

Evidence-Based Medicine and Research Methods

Digital Health and Innovation

Digital Health and Innovation

Health Policy and Health Systems

Health Policy and Health Systems

Big Data

Big Data

Global Perspective

Global Perspective

Clinical Trials

Clinical Trials

Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit

Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit

We research experiences of health and illness, interviewing people about what it’s like to live with medical conditions such as cancer, heart failure and autism. We highlight how personal narratives can inform policy and improve services.

Health Experiences Research Group

Our aim is to support clinical research in primary care and to advance the way we answer clinical questions using statistics to improve healthcare worldwide.

Medical Statistics Group

We are dedicated to the practice, teaching and dissemination of high-quality evidence-based medicine to improve healthcare in everyday clinical practice.

Centre for Evidence Based Medicine

Cancer Research

Cancer Research

The Centre for Health Service Economics & Organisation (CHSEO) is an innovative research unit focused on whole-system analysis of the English health and social care sector and selected local health economies.

Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation

Our research tries to find out which patients are at risk of chronic kidney disease, how their cardiovascular health is affected by this and how screening and monitoring can help.

Chronic Kidney Disease Group

Diabetes and Long-Term Conditions

Diabetes and Long-Term Conditions

EBM DataLab

EBM DataLab

Our research focuses on heart failure in primary care. We explore the burden of heart failure in primary care populations and the impact on patients. We have a particular interest in heart failure diagnosis and screening in primary care settings.

Heart Failure

Hypertension

Hypertension

We investigate infectious diseases in primary care to find out how we can identify patients with serious infection in primary care, and more effective ways of diagnosing and treating patients with common infections.

Infectious Diseases Research Group

IRIHS, founded in 2015, is a mixed-method research unit led jointly by Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Associate Professor Sara Shaw. We undertake interdisciplinary research, teaching and applied scholarship in fields relating to clinical practice, organisation and delivery of health services, health policy, translational science (covering the social and behavioural science of innovation and adoption), digital health and the patient experience.

Interdisciplinary Research in Health Sciences (IRIHS)

Our aim is to improve monitoring and diagnostics used in primary care and community settings.

Monitoring and Diagnosis (MaDOx)

The Oxford Empathy Programme (OxEmCare) is an interdisciplinary research group that includes medical practitioners, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists.

Oxford Empathy Programme

We carry out research to find ways for parents and healthcare professionals to diagnose serious illness in children as early as possible and to manage common childhood illness in the most appropriate way.

Paediatric Research Group

Our aim is to support the provision of high quality primary health care in countries with limited economic resources, undertaking research and policy development in collaboration with academic institutions, NGOs and government agencies.

Primary Care for the Developing World

Reducing the risk of stroke is vital to improving the health of older people. We research ‘funny turns’ that are a warning sign of stroke (termed ‘transient ischaemic attacks’) and the detection and treatment of major risk factors for stroke - high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation.

Stroke Prevention and Atrial Fibrillation

Working globally to deliver triple value healthcare

Value Based Healthcare

WHO Collaborating Centre for Self-Care

WHO Collaborating Centre for Self-Care

We use information from large databases of electronic health records to better target preventative treatments at those patients with the most to gain

Stratified TreAtments Research (STAR)

Our main aim is to assist researchers to conduct high quality primary care research using data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).

CPRD Research Group

Social Prescribing

Social Prescribing