Professor Alastair D Hay

MB.ChB (Sheff), M.D.(Leic.), M.R.C.P., D.C.H.(RCP), M.R.C.G.P., D.F.F.P., F.H.E.A.

Bristol Population Health Science Institute
Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU)
Professor of Primary Care, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Infection and Immunity
Centre for Academic Primary Care

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3012-375X

EmailAlastair.Hay@bristol.ac.uk

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Research interests

Primary care is the first point of contact for, and manages the vast majority of, patients with infectious disease. Primary care is also responsible for over 80% of all health service antibiotic use. Antimicrobial resistance is at the top of the international public health agenda and is responsible for over 30,000 premature deaths in Europe annually. The CAPC infection group conducts internationally recognised research to improve the management of acute infections and the use of antibiotics in primary care. We use mixed methods and collaborate with a wide range of disciplinary experts to conduct research in five areas:

1. To develop and evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of interventions promoting self-care of infections at home

2. To improve the targeting and effective use of antibiotics

3. To investigate the relationship between primary care prescribed antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance

4. To develop and evaluate the clinical and cost effectiveness of interventions to reduce the severity of infection associated symptoms

5. To understand the social and cultural influences on the management of infections by clinicians, patients and carers, including health care utilisation, prescribing practices, and clinician-patient/carer communication.

I lead a 15 strong group, who include two Research Fellows, a Trial Manager, three Research Associates/Assistants, a Research Nurse, a PhD student, an Executive Assistant and five Research Administrators. Together, our success is built on the talent and commitment of our staff; our focus on impactful applied health research with high quality publications; our inter-disciplinary links within the School of Social and Community Medicine and across the University of Bristol; and our collaborative links with like-minded researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and Cardiff. With these three centres, we have an active multicentre research portfolio of nine studies valued at £14M, three of which are led by Bristol and valued at £4.4M, with a further £1.4M of Bristol-only led research.

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Projects

2 Active
11 Finished

Can the past inform the present? Exploring attitudes and approaches to the management of common infections

Caddick, B. A., Hay, A. D., Dawson, S. & Lasseter, G.

1/03/20 → 31/07/21

Project: Research

Rapid diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in Primary Healthcare

Drake, M. J., Micciche, A., Lovering, A., Hayward, G., Jeays-Ward, K., Jacobson, S. K., Hay, A. D., Kiely, J., Luxton, R., Langley, J., McCarthy, A., Skews, R. & Yang, Y.

2/04/18 → 2/04/21

Project: Research

From Folk to Pharma: Unlocking the medicine cabinet to understand lay approaches for managing common infections in the past and present

Caddick, B. A., Lasseter, G. & Hay, A. D.

9/01/20 → 31/07/20

Project: Research

Research Output

145 Article (Academic Journal)
10 Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)
3 Editorial (Academic Journal)
2 Chapter in a book
6 More

Accuracy of potential diagnostic indicators for coeliac disease: a systematic review protocol

Elwenspoek, M. M. C., Jackson, J., Dawson, S., Everitt, H., Gillet, P., Hay, A. D., Jones, H., Lane, D., Mallett, S., Robins, G., Sheppard, A., Stubbs, J., Thom, H. H. Z., Watson, J. C. & Whiting, P. F., 5 Oct 2020

Research output: Other contribution

Open Access

A multi-centre, pragmatic, three-arm, individually randomised, non-inferiority, open trial to compare immediate orally administered, immediate topically administered or delayed orally administered antibiotics for acute otitis media with discharge in children: The Runny Ear Study (REST): study protocol

Curtis, K., Moore, M., Cabral, C., Curcin, V., Horwood, J., Morris, R., Prasad, V., Schilder, A., Turner, N., Wilkes, S., Hay, A. D. & Taylor, J., 3 Jun 2020, In : Trials. 21, 12 p., 463 (2020).

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)

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