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Details for Dr Sarah Purdy
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Sarah Purdy |
| Job title | Reader in Primary Health Care |
| Department | School of Social and Community Medicine University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | MD(Lond), MPH(Harvard), FRCGP |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. |
| Keywords | predictors of primary care sensitive hospital admissions primary care unplanned hospital admission management of shoulder pain management of acne sensitive hospital admissions |
| Areas of expertise | I am currently working on a research programme exploring predictors of primary care sensitive hospital admissions, which will assist primary care clinicians to predict patients at risk of unplanned hospital admission. I am also working with colleagues in Newcastle on clinical trials of the management of shoulder pain in primary care. I continue my secondary research into the management of acne. |