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Primary Care Key Literature

Across the UK, considerable primary care-based research is conducted by GP practices and their teams. The focus of the research relates to applied clinical medicine, and to research investigating the organisation and delivery of care, including important topics such as access, availability, workload, GP workforce, quality of care, etc. Much of the funding to support this research comes from the UK’s National Institute of Health Research (budget £1.2billion) or from major research funders such as MRC, Wellcome, or major research charities (such as Diabetes UK, Cancer Research UK, or British Heart Foundation).

On this page, we've summarised some key papers from UK-based primary care research from recent years. A number of these derive from the Exeter team, but our intent here is to focus on primary care research more widely. This webpage incorporates the presentation of a number of studies which have been drawn from primary care. Have a look, therefore, at some high quality research emanating from academic primary care within this Medical School and from elsewhere in the UK. Papers have been drawn from a variety of sources, but have been selected to provide you with the opportunity to look at a number of research designs, for example, systematic reviews, cohort studies, randomised clinical trials, qualitative research. Each study involves a variety of analytical approaches, and each study provides an opportunity to explore the nature of scientific evidence as it applies to primary care and health services research.

John Campbell, Professor of General Practice and Primary Care

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