The University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Primary Medical Care Group has been admitted to the NIHR School for Primary Care Research? from October 2009. The School is a national initiative funded by the Department of Health? to increase the evidence base for the development of general practice and primary health care? through collaborative programmes of research.

Membership of the School is limited to top-performing primary care departments? and the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 group was selected on the basis of its excellent showing in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise? when 85% of its research was rated as ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world-leading’.

The BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 group joins a select group of departments which also includes Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, and University College London. The School receives ?3 million per annum in funding, which is distributed between the member departments to fund programmes of collaborative research.

Tony Kendrick, who is Head of the PMC group and Associate Dean for Clinical Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, said: “It’s gratifying to have the international excellence of our research recognised in this way, and the five year funding awarded through the School will enable us to develop our applied health research programme in collaboration with colleagues both within BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and in other member departments nationally.”