Primary and Community Care Research team

Based within our hospitals, the Luton, Essex and Herts Valley (LEH) Primary and Community Care Research team are responsible for setting up and delivering clinical research studies in general practice and the community. 

Our ambition is to provide the opportunity for the public to be part of research and to increase the health and wellbeing of our service-users as much as possible. 

We work together with GPs, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals to increase research activity across the LEH geography which spans over three Integrated Care Boards (ICBs):

• Mid and South Essex (MSE)
• Herts and West Essex (HWE)
• Bedfordshire
• Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK).

Apart from GP practices, this includes non-NHS settings, such as care homes, hospices and schools in the hope of reaching more isolated and underserved communities who may not have had the chance to be part of research previously. 

We aim to support and encourage as many practices and community organisations as possible to take part in research. 

We will meet with you and support you with research as and when needed. This could be teaching your staff to carry out a database search for a study or it could be our nurses or practitioners coming to your practice to see patients for a research clinic.

More information about the team and the work we do can be found on their websites at:

• Healthcare professionals - https://sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/lehprimaryandcommunitycare/home?authuser=0 
• Patients - https://sites.google.com/nihr.ac.uk/lehprimaryandcommunitycare/home 

If you have any questions, email us at mse.lehprimarycareresearch@nhs.net.