Practising GP and associate professor in general practice at the University of Tasmania’s Launceston Clinical School Jan Radford has won a Churchill fellowship to study the large-scale collection of de-identified general practice data from electronic medical records.

Associate Professor Radford, who also co-convenes the Northern Tasmania General Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), will travel to the UK and the Netherlands to find out how efforts to collate de-identified, electronic general practice health record data can be best used to improve patient care.