Dr Rebecca Payne is Director of the North Wales Centre for Primary Care Research and a practising GP. Her research focuses on technology within health services, particularly remote consulting in primary and urgent care, and its consequences for quality, safety and equity. She has a special interest in rural, remote and island healthcare, drawing on her clinical work as a remote island doctor. Her current work includes the REMEDY study, exploring remotely controlled medication dispensing for out-of-hours and rural settings. She collaborates widely across Europe, particularly with Aarhus University and other Scandinavian partners, and previously led quality and safety research within Oxford University's Remote by Default 2 study. She chairs the NICE Quality Standards Committee.
Example PhD project titles
- Maintaining quality in remote and digital primary care consultations
- Improving access to medicines in rural and underserved communities
- Technology and the future of urgent primary care and out-of-hours services
- Delivering healthcare in remote, rural and island settings: challenges and innovations
- Artificial intelligence in primary care: opportunities, risks and unintended consequences