Congratulations to Fraser Birrell, ICM, who has been awarded Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow Status. An HEA fellowship is an international  recognition of a commitment to professionalism in teaching and learning in higher education and demonstrates alignment of teaching practice with the UK Professional Standards Framework.

Fraser is the Degree Programme Director of the Masters of Clinical Research Programme and responsible for the development with the local Clinical Research Network of the highly successful Introduction to Research Skills course offered by Health Education England North East to all specialist registrars in the region. He is also Academic Lead of Shared Medical Appointments UK, driving spread of group consultation models regionally and nationally with the support of Health Education England North East.

Fraser’s team were recently recognised by the Royal College of Physicians of London at their Excellence in Patient Care Awards, being shortlisted for the Lancet Research Award for work on group consultations in primary & secondary care, co-designed with patients and delivering the same or better outcomes with 200-400% efficiency. If you are a clinician (doctor, nurse or allied health professional) wanting to learn to deliver care in this way and want to attend the national training course on 12th July you can register via  http://www.groupconsultations.com/rheumatologytraining/. 

If you are an academic interested in research in this field contact Fraser.Birrell@ncl.ac.uk directly.