Professor Tony Kendrick BSc MD FRCGP FRCPsych (Hon) FHEA
Professor of Primary Care
Professor Tony Kendrick is Professor of Primary Care within Medicine at the University of Southampton.
We are developing more accurate and efficient techniques for primary care practitioners to use to assess the needs of people with mental health problems, so that they can quickly target treatments to those who most need them.
Tony Kendrick’s research over 30 years has addressed the management of common and costly mental health problems in primary care, and has been influential in changing the management of schizophrenia and depression in primary care. He is currently doing refresher training as a GP at Milford Surgery, after seven years out of practice.
He has published 147 peer-reviewed articles, six books, 32 book chapters, and 45 other publications. He was awarded his MD at St George’s Hospital Medical School in 1996, writing his doctoral thesis on a randomised controlled trial of teaching general practitioners to carry out structured assessments of their long-term mentally ill patients, funded by a four year half time Mental Health Foundation research training fellowship.
He then moved to Southampton and carried out a number of multicentre randomised controlled trials, as well as observational and qualitative studies, on treatments and health service developments in primary care, mainly for depression and anxiety, but also for eating disorders, bereavement, carers’ health, and multimorbidity, through his PhD students’ work.
His work has had significant impact on clinical practice through the development of NICE guidelines on depression and through the introduction of performance indicators in the UK GP contract quality and outcomes framework (QOF), which has improved the GP assessment of psychosis and depression.
He has an international reputation in research having collaborated directly with colleagues in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Canada, and the Netherlands. He has given invited plenary presentations at conferences organised by the World Organisation of Family Doctors, World Psychiatry Association, and the North American Primary Care Research Group.
He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1997 and to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2001, in recognition of his research into primary care mental health. He was awarded the RCGP President’s Medal for his research in 2009.
Qualifications
BSc, Medical Sciences with Psychology, London Hospital Medical College, 1978
MB BS, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, 1981
DRCOG, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1983
DCH, Royal College of Physicians, London, 1984
MRCGP, Royal College of General Practitioners, 1985
MD, General practitioner care of people with long term mental illness, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, 1996
FRCGP, Royal College of General Practitioners, 1997
FHEA, Higher Education Academy, 2007
Awards
Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2001
President's Medal, Royal College of General Practitioners, 2009
RCGP George Swift Lecture, 2010
Previous posts
Dean, Hull York Medical School. 2010-2013
Associate Non-Executive Director, Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust. 2010-2013
Sessional GP, New Hall Surgery, Hull. 2011-2013
Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, University of Southampton. 2008-2010
Director, Community Clinical Sciences Division, School of Medicine, University of Southampton. 2001-2008
Professor of Primary Medical Care University of Southampton.
Sessional GP at Aldermoor Surgery, Hill Lane Surgery, Bath Lodge Practice, and St Mary’s Surgery. 1998-2010
Reader in General Practice, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. 1997-1998
Director, South Thames Research Network, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. 1996-1998
Senior Lecturer in General Practice & Primary Care, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. 1994-1997
Mental Health Foundation Research Training Fellow, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. 1990-1994
General Practitioner (two-thirds time), Chertsey Health Centre, Surrey. 1990-1998
General Practitioner (full time), Weybridge Health Centre, Surrey, and Area Organiser and Senior Tutor, St George's Hospital Medical School, London. 1985-1990
Vocational Trainee in Dover and Canterbury, Kent. 1982-1985
House Surgeon, Kingston General Hospital, Surrey. 1982
House Physician, St George's Hospital, London. 1981-1982