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Name Dr Matthew Booker
Job title NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care
Department Bristol Medical School (PHS) University of Bristol
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Qualifications BSc (Hons), MB ChB, DRCOG, PhD, DFSRH, MEd, MCIEA, MRCGP, FHEA, PGCert (Advanced Emergency Care)
Professional details
Membership of professional bodies MRCGP
Keywords prehospital care
ambulance
unplanned admissions
urgent care
primary care
emergency care
resuscitation
basic life support
Areas of expertise I am an academic GP with clinical interests in urgent and emergency healthcare. My current research explores the use of urgent and emergency medical services (particularly ambulance services). I am investigating how to optimise delivery of urgent community care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. I am using mixed-methods strategies to explore predictors and patterns of primary-care sensitive urgent care episodes, and how/why people choose certain forms of emergency care over alternatives. I also have teaching and research interests in resuscitation and prehospital care.