Caroline Mitchell

Biography

Professor Caroline Mitchell is Professor of General Practice Research, and a General Practitioner.

Her research critiques and addresses equity bias in healthcare through inclusive, participatory methodologies. She co-founded the influential Deep End Research Alliance (DERA), a collaboration of patients/ communities, practitioners, and academics in Yorkshire and Humber, and co-leads a national community of practice for Deep End Research delivery networks.

Caroline’s work focuses on co-designing and evaluating complex interventions for primary care, with expertise in qualitative, mixed-methods, and clinical trial methodologies. Her activism advances equitable research partnerships with underserved communities across NHS priority areas including multiple longterm conditions, musculoskeletal medicine, T2 Diabetes Mellitus remission, reproductive health, cardiovascular medicine, cancer screening and care pathways and integration of advanced practitioner roles into primary care teams.

Research and scholarship

ORCID
Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners
National Mentoring Lead for the Society of Academic Primary Care
NIHR Chair Primary Care Clinician Pre-doctoral fellowship panel

Teaching

Phd supervision- multidisciplinary, focus on health equity and inclusive research methodologies
Undergraduate MBChB modules

Collaborations and grants awards

Current Co-I Research includes:

• The OCCUR trial: A pragmatic randomised trial comparing Oral Corticosteroids and Colchicine for the treatment of goUt flaRes in people with relative contraindications to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
• NIHR169270 A realist evaluation of multi-professional advanced practice in primary care (REMAP)
• NIHR SCPR: A self-management toolkit for people experiencing socioeconomic deprivation with multiple long-term conditions: co-design and feasibility testing
• NIHR SPCR: REDUCE-HF, an electronic health records study in OpenSAFELY: Using big data, machine learning and community co-production to reduce inequalities in the primary care diagnosis of heart failure
• Yorkshire Cancer Research: E-Immune:Empowerment of patients and clinicians in the management of immunotherapy toxicity through a new digital care pathway
• Yorkshire Cancer Research: Prostate cancer screening using a risk adapted PSA/image-based approach
• NIHR PDG: From consultation to citizen control: Ensuring no one is left behind in Type2 Diabetes remission research
• Collaborator: NIHR Challenge Maternity Disparities Consortium - West Midlands partnership