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Our current, main study is PCDQ. The Primary Care Data Quality (PCDQ) offers targeted clinical programmes (audit-based education) in key disease areas. The programme has been initially developed by the Primary Care Informatics Group at St. George’s University of London. Our team has worked from dedicated facilities at the St. George's Hospital since 1999 and from the beginning of 2011 we are based at the University of Surrey in Guildford. Programmes are designed by firstly assessing the clinical, technical, logistical and educational needs of clinicians.

The PCDQ team comprises experienced clinicians who also bring knowledge of "real-world" IT capabilities, and understanding of the nature and pace of what can realistically be changed. Its programmes in diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, mental health and chronic kidney disease have been field-tested and run in over twenty-five localities up and down the country.

Prof Simon de Lusignan (more)
Head of group
Professor of Primary Care & Clinical Informatics
Chair in Health Care Management		 Prof Simon de Lusignan                                Prof Terry Desombre (more)
Head of the Department of Health Care Management and Policy		 Prof Terry Desombre
 
Prof Simon Jones (more)
Visiting Professor		 Prof Simon Jones                      Dr Tom Chan (more)
Senior Research Fellow		 Dr Tom Chan
 
Dr Imran Rafi (more)
GPwSI Genetics and Senior Lecturer Primary Care Education		 Dr Imran Rafi            Dr Aumran Tahir Dr Aumran Tahir
 
Jeremy van Vlymen Jeremy van Vlymen            Georgios Michalakidis (more)
Research Fellow		 Georgios Michalakidis
 
Antonios Ntasioudis (more)
Research Fellow		 Antonios Ntasioudis            Mert Senkal Mert Senkal
 
Pushpa Kumarapeli (more)
Lecturer, Computing & Information Systems		 Pushpa Kumarapeli            Olga Dmitrieva Olga Dmitrieva
Dr Gisele Loriggio Borelli-Montigny
Doctoral Student - Internal Medicine & Cardiolgy Physician		 Dr Gisele Loriggio Borelli-Montigny
 

 

Key Task: Data is extracted and processed, and fed back in a non-judgemental educational context. Learning opportunities are created for the whole primary care organisations (PCO), practice and individual clinician. As a by-product disease registers, and the information needed about National Service Framework and quality improvement targets are generated. The academic interest in this work is the development of a programme that requires minimal clinician input to achieve maximum quality improvement.