How to win friends and influence people: 2018 SPCR showcase

Damehood for Professor Louise Robinson in New Year's Honours list

The University of Newcastle's Professor Louise Robinson has been awarded a damehood for services to Primary Care and for improving older people's quality of life and care they receive.

SPCR annual trainees' event

CBE awarded to Prof Richard Hobbs in New Year's Honours 2019

Professor Richard Hobbs, Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, is appointed CBE for services to medical research, and receives the RCGP Discovery Prize.

Number of diagnostic tests ordered by GPs rises more than threefold in 15 years

Tests ordered by GPs now cost the NHS at least £2.8bn per year, finds Oxford University-led study, funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research.

Welcome

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.

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Established in 2006

443 projects to date

153 trainee awards made