Research

Research conducted in the Section of Clinical Medicine aims to respond to a wide range of health policy questions by looking at personal, professional and organisational development in primary and secondary health care.

Research areas

The main areas of our research focus on:

  • Healthcare management
  • Clinical informatics
  • Health economics.

More specifically, research has been conducted in the areas of:

  • First-line management
  • The clinician-patient relationship
  • Primary care data and quality indicators
  • Competition in healthcare
  • Diffusion of new health technologies.

Main research interests and groupings

  • Health Outcomes: including Clinical Informatics and Quality Improvements
  • Primary Care: focus on disease surveillance, vaccine research and primary care epidemiology (and informatics)
  • Centre for Research on Ageing and Generations (CRAG)
  • Surrey Cohort
  • MOCHA: Models of Child Health Appraised – A Study in Primary Healthcare in 30 European countries
  • FLUCOP: Standardisation and development of assays for assessment of influenza vaccine correlates of protection
  • ADVANCE: Accelerated Development of Vaccine benefit-risk  Collaboration in Europe

Postgraduate research students

We are proud to support a growing number of PhD students who research in the areas of our expertise, looking both at the NHS and health care systems across the world.

To discuss the suitability of a PhD proposal, before applying, please review our research interests and then contact Sam Peters (sp0066@surrey.ac.uk) Research Administrator for the Section or Postgraduate admissions enquiries admissions@surrey.ac.uk.