Rita Santos has been awarded a NIHR Doctoral Fellowship

Rita Santos has been awarded a National Institute for Health Research Doctoral Fellowship. She will be working on Measuring and explaining variations in general practice performance. Over 3 years she will be analysing the large variations across general practices in the proportion of patients treated in hospital for particular conditions.

NIHR Fellowships support outstanding individuals to become the health research leaders of the future by buying out their salary costs, meeting their training and development costs and by contributing to the research costs needed to complete an identified research project.