Primary care consultations

Current projects

• Accessing Continuity: A mixed methods exploration of the associations between access systems and relational continuity of care in UK general practice. Dineen M and Mahoney H, Engamba S, Brain T, Brown E, Duncan P, Evans P, Pereira Gray D, Salisbury C, Sidaway-Lee K, Wheeler I, Woolford SJ, Watson J. Funder: Pending. Start and end years: 2025-2027

• The TIP (Talking in Primary Care) Study. A cluster-randomised controlled trial in primary care to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of communication skills e-learning for practitioners on patients’ musculoskeletal pain and enablement. Bishop F, Everitt H, Ridd M. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research. July 2022-February 2023.

• One in a Million Telesafe - Understanding how clinicians in general practice make safe follow-up plans in telephone appointments. Salisbury C (PI). Funder: NIHR senior investigator award (2022-2023). Other awards linked to project: Peter Edwards (NIHR In-Practice Fellowship)

Completed projects

• Eliciting patients’ ideas, concerns, expectations, and effects on life: an observational study of routine general practice (GP-ICEE). Edwards P (PI). Funder: NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship and 2x NIHR SPCR medical student internships (2020-2022)

• The COAC Study: The Consultation Open and Close study on using health information systems to address patients concerns in general practice: an Intervention Development and Feasibility Study. Murphy M, Salisbury C, Wong G, Morris R, Hancock J.  Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit Programme (2019-2021)

• Understanding standard care smoking cessation advice from Health Care Assistants, Practice Nurses and GPs in the management of smoking in primary care trial (UnMaSC). Barnes R. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (April 2020 to March 2021)

• How useful are inflammatory marker tests in primary care? Watson J, Whiting P, Salisbury C, Hamilton W. Funder: NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship (2016-2021)

• Reviewing the accuracy of blood tests for diagnosing coeliac disease in adults and children. Whiting P, Hay A, Gillett P, Robins G, Everitt H, Thorn H, Elwenspoek M, Watson J, Sheppard A. Funder: NIHR Health Technology Assessment (2020-2021)

• Developing recommendations for chronic disease testing in GP practices. Elwenspoek M, Watson J, Mann E, Alsop K, Patel R, Whiting P. Funder: NIHR ARC West (2018-2020)

• Approaches to diagnosing dementia syndrome in General Practice: Determining the value of gestalt judgement, clinical history and tests. Creavin ST, Ben-Shlomo Y, Purdy S, Cullum S. Funder: Wellcome Trust (2015-2020)

• Investigating the impact of the introduction of a named GP assigned to patients 75 and over on their continuity of care and emergency hospital admission. Tammes P, Morris R, Chalder M, Payne R, Purdy S, Salisbury C. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2017-2018)

• An investigation of GP safety-netting practices in primary care consultations. Edwards P, Barnes R, Ridd M.

• Evaluating an online consultation system in GP practices. Horwood, J. Farr, M. Banks, J. Edwards, H.  Marques, E. Hollingsworth, W. Bernard, E. Northstone, K. Salisbury, C. Funders: NIHR CLAHRC West and One Care Ltd (2015-2017)

• Can continuity of primary care decrease unscheduled secondary care use? Morris R, Purdy S, Salisbury C, Tammes P, MacKichan F, Lasserson D. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2015-2016)

• UNPAC - Understanding the causes of miscommunication in primary care consultations for children with acute cough. Cabral. C. Horwood, J. Symonds, J. Ingram, J. Lucas, P. Redmond, N. Kai, J. Hay, A.  Barnes, R. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2013-2017) 

• The Alt-Con Project: Alternatives to face to face consultation with GPs. Chris Salisbury, Helen Atherton, Sue Ziebland, John Campbell, Brian McKinstry, Andrew Gibson (Funded by the NIHR, HS&DR Programme) (2015-2016)

• Footprints in Primary Care: Testing the feasibility of a consultation-level intervention for frequent attenders with clinically inexplicable symptoms in primary care. Rebecca K Barnes, Helen Cramer, Sandra Hollinghurst, Sue Jackson, Charlie Record, Chris Metcalfe and David Kessler. Funded by NIHR RfPB Programme (2015-2016)

• The Bristol Archive Project: Creating a shared resource of primary care encounters and linked data. Barnes RK, Ridd M, Metcalfe C, Salisbury C. Funder: NIHR School for Primary Care Research (2014-2016)

• 'One in a Million' Improving the re-use potential of a new database of primary care consultations and linked data. Barnes RK, Jepson M, Ridd M, Metcalfe C, Proctor S, Salisbury C. Funder: SW GP Trust (2015)