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Claire Meadows
claire.meadows@phc.ox.ac.uk
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Gail Hayward
MBBChir, D.Phil, MRCP, DRCOG, MRCGP
Associate Professor
- Clinical Director, NIHR Communtiy Healthcare MedTech and IVD Cooperative
- General Practitioner
- Academic Clinical Fellow training lead
- Clinical Teaching Associate, Exeter College
My research interests lie in diagnosis and management of common infections in primary care and in the generation of evidence for new diagnostic technologies in primary care settings. I am also interested in characterising the work of the primary care Out-of-Hours services and exploring the ways this service could be improved by use of new technologies or different models of care.
I am the Deputy Director of the NIHR Community Healthcare MedTech and IVD Cooperative. I am PI of CONDUCT, a large RCT evaluating methods for reducing urine sample contamination rates, and PROBE, a mixed methods study exploring the clinical impact of point of care blood testing in the out of hours service. I was joint PI of the TOAST trial, a large RCT comparing oral dexamethasone to placebo for symptom relief of acute sore throat. Other current projects include qualitative interviews to explore the GPs use of the diagnostic markers of infection in the elderly and a methods comparison study of thermometers for children aged 5 and under. I sit on the NHS England AMR Diagnostic Collaborative.
I am a practicing GP in Oxford city.
Key publications
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Effect of oral dexamethasone without immediate antibiotics vs placebo on acute sore throat in adults a randomized clinical trial
Journal article
Hayward GN. et al, (2017), JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 317, 1535 - 1543
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What factors influence prognosis in children with acute cough and respiratory tract infection in primary care?
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Hayward G. et al, (2012), BMJ (Online), 345
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The Sore Throat Test and Treat Service: Speed should not substitute science
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Goyder C. et al, (2017), British Journal of General Practice, 67
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Predicting clinical deterioration after initial assessment in out-of-hours primary care: A retrospective service evaluation
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Hayward GN. et al, (2017), British Journal of General Practice, 67, e78 - e85
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Increase in antibiotic prescriptions in out-of-hours primary care in contrast to in-hours primary care prescriptions: service evaluation in a population of 600 000 patients
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Hayward GN. et al, (2016), The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 71, 2612 - 2619
Recent publications
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Managing recurrent vulvovaginal thrush from patient and healthcare professional perspectives: A systematic review and thematic synthesis
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Ford T. et al, (2024), Patient Education and Counseling, 118
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Internet Tool to Support Self-Assessment and Self-Swabbing of Sore Throat: Development and Feasibility Study.
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Lown M. et al, (2023), J Med Internet Res, 25
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A high-resolution melt curve toolkit to identify lineage-defining SARS-CoV-2 mutations
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Fraser AJ. et al, (2023), Scientific Reports, 13
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Machine diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using a novel fast-response capnometer
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Talker L. et al, (2023), Respiratory Research, 24
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Uterine adenomyosis: an update for GPs.
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Dixon S. et al, (2023), Br J Gen Pract, 73, 524 - 525