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Congratulations to our Primary Medical Care Group selected to join the NIHR School for Primary Care Research in October 2009
The School for Primary Care Research is the first school to be established within the NIHR. The School comprises the leading academic centres for primary care research in England and their focus is on research to improve everyday practice in primary care.
There is a total fund of £3 million per year available to support clinical trials and other well-designed studies in primary care and at the interface with secondary care.
The membership of the school increased from five founding academic university departments to eight in August 2009. The School now comprises the universities of:
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Keele
- Manchester
- Nottingham
- Oxford
- Southampton
- University College London
Our Primary Medical Care group comprises 37 members of staff including 7 clinical academics, 3 postdoctoral fellows and 7 PhD students. They carry out clinical trials and observational studies.
Key Health care topics
for the group include:
- Acute infections
- Weight loss and exercise
- Back pain and osteoporosis
- Depression with physical illness
- Complementary therapies
Photo - Left to right: Ian Williamson, Mike Moore, Tony Kendrick, Paul Little and George Lewith.
Hazel Everitt and James Raftery were also part of the group’s highly successful submission to the RAE.
The NIHR School for Primary Care Research website
EU to fund complementary medicine research
The EU is to put €1.5 million into complementary medicine research over the next three years.
Called CAMbrella, the plan is to create a network of European research institutes that will focus on the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in healthcare systems, legal regulation, patients’ needs, research methodology and terminology. More details / close
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)
The most recent research exercise allowed our research group to be returned within Primary Care as a unit of assessment. Southampton Primary Care department were rated 4* (high quality international excellence) as far as their research output was concerned. It was particularly pleasing to note that the RAE feedback contains a specific mention to notable research strands; work to minimise the prescription of anti-biotics in primary care and the work carried out by the Complementary and Integrated Medicine Research Group. It’s a real privilege and a great achievement to be part of such a high quality primary care research environment.
Announcement
The University of Southampton have awarded a personal chair to George Lewith, he is now Professor of Health Research.