Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Primary care
- Digital Health
- Access to healthcare
- Health inequalities
Current research
Helen is Professor of Primary Care Research and is a primary care health services researcher. Helen’s research expertise is in digital primary care, exploring digital access through to delivery of healthcare using remote approaches. Helen is currently involved in several studies in the UK, and in studies based in Denmark and Norway. She currently leads NIHR funded research on making access to general practice sustainable and a study on how best to support general practice and patients to use digital services. Helen has generated impact from her work, co-authoring a REF21 impact case study on digital primary care.
Helen has a particular interest in encouraging capacity building in academic primary care and currently supervises an NIHR In Practice Fellow and PhD students both in the UK and based in Europe.
Publications
Biography
Before moving to Southampton Helen was Professor and Deputy Head of the Unit of Academic Primary Care at Warwick. Prior to working at Warwick she was a NIHR School for Primary Care Fellow at the University of Oxford (2012-2015). She completed her PhD in Primary Care Health Services Research at Imperial College London in 2011. Her first research post was in 2005, in the general practice grouping at St George's, University of London. As well as her PhD Helen has a Master of Public Health (Imperial College), and MSc in Biological Anthropology and a BSc in Ecology (University of Durham).