The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research is a partnership between nine leading academic centres for primary care research in England. Our main aims are to increase the evidence base for primary care practice through high quality research and strategic leadership, and to build capacity in primary care with a well established training programme.

Congratulations to Ben Bowers, SPCR doctoral student at the University of Cambridge, who has been shortlisted for the prestigious RCNi Nurse Awards 2020 in the General Practice & Community Nurse category.

George Lewith Prize winners talk about dipping their toes into primary care research

The Clinical Research Network has just published it's performance figures for 2019/20.

The systematic review 'The potential contribution of paramedics in primary and urgent care' provides an overview of the types of clinical roles paramedics are undertaking.

"I feel like a lot of the critical thinking I was able to do this summer will, in the long run, influence the way I approach medicine in the future" SPCR intern 2018

In light of the recent Black Lives Matter protests, the disproportionate number of BAME healthworkers dying from Covid-19, and the long-standing systemic inequalities in the health sector and broader society, the NIHR have issued a piece in recognition of Black Lives Matter.