Mrs Emily Fletcher

About me:

Emily Fletcher is a Research Fellow and Project/Trial Manager. She undertook an undergraduate degree in Psychology (BSc) at Southampton Solent University, and a postgraduate degree in Health Psychology (MSc) at the University of Southampton. After working with NHS Direct as a call handler, she has subsequently held various Graduate Research Associate and Research Fellow roles in Exeter within the Primary Care Research Group in the Faculty of Health and Community Sciences.

Emily is an active member of the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx). As for 6th March 2024, Emily will be the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx) Early- and Mid-Career Researcher representative. She is also the national co-lead of the Primary Health Care Scientists (PHoCuS) within the Society for Academic Primary Care.

Interests:

Emily has a particular interest in General Practitioner workforce and workload issues. For the last decade at least, England’s GP workforce has been in ‘crisis’ with a third of GPs report their intention to quit within five years. Increases in workload and complexity and depleted GP workforce are likely to impact on GPs’ ability to manage competing demands within a ten-minute consultation. Emily’s PhD developed methods to extract and cross-reference consultations data from practice systems with usage data from digital tools, with potential to be used research into digital tools for conditions other than cancer that look at the association with GP workload and workflow during consultations.

Qualifications:

MSc Health Psychology (Southampton)

BSc Psychology (Southampton)