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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

A key theme of primary care research in Oxford

Patient experience

A key theme of primary care research in Oxford

Cardiovascular & metabolic

A key theme of primary care research in Oxford

Infections & acute care

A key theme of primary care research in Oxford

EBM & research methods

A cross-department theme of primary care research

Digital health and innovation

A cross-department theme of primary care research in Oxford

Health policy & systems

A cross-department theme of primary care research in Oxford

Big data

A cross-department theme of primary care research in Oxford

Global perspective

A cross-department theme of primary care research in Oxford

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

Transforming care by understanding and using experience

Oxford Health Experiences Institute (HEXI)

Changing behaviour and culture to prevent or treat serious disease.

Behavioural 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

We produce and help others to produce systematic reviews and meta-analyses of interventions to prevent and treat tobacco addiction. Cochrane is dedicated to making high quality, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available worldwide.

Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group

We work to develop and evaluate new ways to help people with single and multiple long-term conditions improve their health through better self-management. We aim to do this through development and evaluation of tests, interventions, and technologies, appropriately targeted and used for prevention, treatment and monitoring.

Diabetes and long-term conditions

EBM DataLab

EBM DataLab

Research into the main causes and impact of heart failure, with a linked programme on its better diagnosis.

Heart Failure Research

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

Interdisciplinary research at the interface between social sciences and healthcare.

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