Quality and safety

Led by: Professor Stephen Campbell, Dr Maria Panagioti and Professor Darren Ashcroft

This theme focuses on conducting innovative, needs-driven and applied research to improve quality of care and patient safety in primary care, particularly in general practice and community pharmacy, as well as the interface of hospital and social care.

We are an interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians in primary care, pharmacy, mental health, informatics, epidemiology and statistics. We develop and test the mechanisms for high-quality, safer primary care systems, which are integrated with hospital and community settings.

Our aims are to:

• Work together with patients, carers, members of the public and healthcare providers using a co-design and learning approach that takes a shared responsibility approach to better quality of care and making health and care safer
• Develop ground-breaking digital and behavioural interventions to facilitate effective communication between patients, healthcare providers and healthcare systems creating cycles of continuous safety improvement.
• Create evidence-based strategies to reduce common sources of patient safety problems (e.g. medication and prescribing) and improve safety in marginalised groups of patients.

Available projects

The below projects are available within this theme. The links will take you to the full project descriptions on FindAPhD.com, from where you can also email the lead contact for each project with any questions.

• Mental health outcomes and utilisation of mental health care services in older adults in primary care (Dr Rathi Ravindrarajah)

Next steps and contacts

If you are considering applying for a studentship for a project within this theme, please email the research contact for the relevant project to discuss your potential application and ask any questions you may have.

Professor Stephen Campbell
Email: stephen.campbell@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Maria Pangoti
Email: maria.pangioti@manchester.ac.uk

If after speaking to the leads you still wish to be considered for the programme, and you meet our eligibility criteria, you must complete a single online application, following the instructions on the how to apply page.