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Umesh Chauhan

Mackenzie Chair of Primary Care Medicine

School of Medicine

Primary Care, Primary Care Medicine, Quality Improvement, Intellectual Disability, Evidence Based Medicine, Systematic Reviews

Umesh has extensive personal experience of General Practice, and has practised as a GP since 1994 with a sustained commitment to high quality patient centred care in a deprived area of East Lancashire for over 20 years. Umesh has in parallel developed a career as a researcher and leader that has enabled him to contribute both to the knowledge base of tackling health inequality in primary care and improving quality at a local, regional, national and international level. Umesh has led the development of academic expertise within primary care in East Lancashire as the Research Lead for East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) which is a member of the North West Coast CLAHRC and has also funded Academic Training Fellowship for Training GPs since 2014. The Mackenzie Chair for Primarymore...

1990 MBChB University of Manchester 1994 MRCGP Royal College of General Practitioners 1994 DTM&H Tropical School of Medicine, University of Liverpool 2002 MA Lancaster University 2008 PhD University of Manchester

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  1. Glover, Gyles, Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X and Emerson, Eric (2013) Screening for thyroid insufficiency in adults with Down syndrome. Tizard Learning Disability Review, 18 (2). pp. 98-103. ISSN 1359-5474
  2. Hoghton, Matthew, Martin, Graham and Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X (2012) Annual health checks for people with intellectual disabilities. BMJ, 345 (nov15). e7589-e7589. ISSN 1756-1833
  3. Campbell, Stephen M, Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X and Lester, Helen (2010) Primary Medical Care Provider Accreditation (PMCPA): pilot evaluation. British Journal of General Practice, 60 (576). pp. 295-304. ISSN 09601643
  4. Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X, Kontopantelis, Evangelos, Campbell, Stephen, Jarrett, H. and Lester, Helen (2010) Health checks in primary care for adults with intellectual disabilities: how extensive should they be? Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54 (6). pp. 479-486. ISSN 09642633
  5. Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X, Baker, Deborah, Edwards, Richard and Hann, Mark (2010) Improving care in cardiac rehabilitation for minority ethnic populations. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 9 (4). pp. 272-277. ISSN 14745151
  6. Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X, Baker, Deborah, Lester, Helen and Edwards, Richard (2010) Exploring uptake of cardiac rehabilitation in a minority ethnic population in England: A qualitative study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 9 (1). pp. 68-74. ISSN 14745151
  7. Buszewicz, Marta, Welch, Catherine, Horsfall, Laura, Nazareth, Irwin, Osborn, David, Hassiotis, Angela, Glover, Gyles, Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X, Hoghton, Matthew et al (2014) Assessment of an incentivised scheme to provide annual health checks in primary care for adults with intellectual disability: a longitudinal cohort study. The Lancet Psychiatry, 1 (7). pp. 522-530. ISSN 2215-0366
  8. de Lusignan, S., Mold, F., Sheikh, A., Majeed, A., Wyatt, J. C., Quinn, T., Cavill, M., Gronlund, T. A., Franco, C. et al (2014) Patients' online access to their electronic health records and linked online services: a systematic interpretative review. BMJ Open, 4 (9). e006021-e006021. ISSN 2044-6055
  9. Mold, Freda, Ellis, Beverley Suzanne orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0938-1172, De Lusignan, Simon, Sheikh, Aziz, Wyatt, Jeremy C, Cavill, Mary, Michalakidis, Georgios, Barker, Fiona, Majeed, Azeem et al (2013) The provision and impact of online patient access to their electronic health records (EHR) and transactional services on the quality and safety of health care: systematic review protocol. Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 20 (4). pp. 271-282. ISSN 2058-4555
  10. Reeve, Joanne, Abholz, Harald, Bailey, Tom, Bates, Elizabeth, Bond, Christine, Chauhan, Umesh orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0747-591X, Eldridge, Sandra, Irving, Greg, Keong, Dawn et al (2011) A pause for thought: reflections on the 2011 SAPC Annual Conference. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 12 (04). pp. 393-394. ISSN 1463-4236
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