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Personal details
Name Professor Sarah Purdy
Job title Head of School
Head of School, Bristol Medical School
Department Bristol Medical School University of Bristol
Bristol Medical School University of Bristol
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Qualifications B Sc, MB BS, M.D.(Lond.), M.P.H.(Harvard), F.R.C.G.P., FRCP, FRCP Edinburgh
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.
Keywords predictors of primary care sensitive hospital admissions
primary care
unplanned hospital admission
urgent care
Areas of expertise I run a research programme looking at urgent care use including emergency hospital admissions and how to reduce these using interventions in primary care, ambulance services and emergency departments and hospitals.