Professor Clare J Taylor MBE PhD FRCGP

Professor Clare J Taylor

Department of Applied Health Sciences
Professor of General Practice

Contact details

Email
c.j.taylor.1@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Department of Applied Health Sciences
Murray Learning Centre
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Clare J Taylor is Professor of General Practice at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and a GP in the NHS. Her research focuses on earlier diagnosis and improving prognosis for people with heart failure in primary care using big GP datasets.

Professor Taylor has received grant and fellowship funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Wellcome Trust, and British Heart Foundation. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals, including British Medical Journal and European Heart Journal, and her research has informed international heart failure guidelines.

Professor Taylor is an experienced lecturer and supervisor at undergraduate, masters and PhD level. She also held senior leadership positions at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) as Chair of their Associates in Training Committee and Lead of the First5 initiative and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Chronic Heart Failure guideline committee.

Professor Taylor was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to General Practice in 2015 and recently awarded the prestigious RCGP John Fry Award 2023 for promoting the discipline of general practice through research and publishing.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2015
  • Fellowship (FRCGP), Royal College of General Practitioners, 2015
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2012
  • Masters in Public Health (Distinction), ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 2010
  • Membership (MRCGP), Royal College of General Practitioners, 2009
  • Membership (MRCP), Royal College of Physicians, 2006
  • Bachelor of Medicine (Distinction) and Surgery, University of Cambridge, 2003
  • Bachelor of Arts (2:1), University of Cambridge, 2000

Teaching

Professor Taylor was lecturer and lead for the MSc in Primary Care Heart Failure module, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-based medicine tutor and senior clinical examiner at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning.

She currently supervises undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students, and is a Fellow and academic advisor at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. She also writes blogs and infographics to ensure her research is accessible for the busy GP.

Research

Clare Taylor ECHOES study - heart failure

Other activities

Professor Taylor has experience in senior leadership and policy roles. She chaired the Associates in Training committee at RCGP and established and led the RCGP First5 initiative to support new GPs in their first five years of practice. She was also on RCGP Council and the Society for Academic Primary Care Executive Board, and a member of the NICE Chronic Heart Failure guideline committee 2018.

Professor Taylor is a current member of:

  • Dutch Heart Foundation Independent Scientific Advisory Board
  • RCGP Research Paper of the Year Committee
  • European Primary Care Cardiovascular Society Board
  • NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee for Chronic Heart Failure
  • British Society of Heart Failure Education and Training Committee
  • Clinical Advisory Board for the patient-led heart failure charity Pumping Marvellous Foundation.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Taylor, C, Taylor, K, Jones, NR, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Bayes-Genis, A & Hobbs, FDR 2025, '', ESC heart failure.

Taylor, C, Avery, AJ, Mughal, F, Kidd, M, Ahluwalia, S, Daines, L, Dubras, L, Harris, J, McManus, RJ, Wilkes, S, Hobbs, FDR & Sheikh, A 2025, '', British Journal of General Practice , vol. 75, no. 756, pp. 330-333.

Shrikrishna, D, Steer, J, Bostock, B, Dickinson, SW, Piwko, A, Ramalingam, S, Saggu, R, Stonham, CA, Storey, RF, Taylor, CJ, Thakkar, R & Gale, CP 2025, '', International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, vol. 20, pp. 2073-2090.

Paton, MF, Barton, C, Baruah, R, Hartshorne-Evans, N, Jenkins, GH, Potter, A, Robinson, S, Thakar, R, Zakeri, R & Taylor, C 2025, '', Open Heart, vol. 12, no. 1, e003063.

Cuthbert, JJ, Lomax, S, Soyiri, I, Luo, E, Turgoose, J, Cohen, J, Fuat, A, Taylor, C & Clark, AL 2025, '', International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 435, 133386.

Jones, NR, Smith, M, Lay-Flurrie, S, Yang, Y, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, C 2025, '', British Journal of General Practice .

Pellicori, P, Ahmed, FZ, Beezer, J, Fuat, A, Halliday, BP, Ludman, AJ, Oluwasefunmi Savage, H, Taylor, CJ & Cleland, JGF 2024, '', BMJ Considerations in Medicine, vol. 3, e000008.

Shrikrishna, D, Taylor, CJ, Stonham, C & Gale, CP 2024, '', European Heart Journal, vol. 45, no. 4, ehad669.

Jones, NR, Smith, M, Lay-Flurrie, S, Yang, Y, Hobbs, FDR & Taylor, C 2024, '', Open Heart, vol. 11, no. 2, e002975.

Hobbs, FDR, McManus, RJ, Taylor, CJ, Jones, NR, Rahman, JK, Wolstenholme, J, Kim , S, Kwon, J, Jones, L, Hirst, JA, Yu, L-M & Mort, S 2024, '', Nature Medicine.

Ahmed, FZ, Beezer, J, Fuat, A, Halliday, B, Ludman, A, Pellicori, P, Oluwasefunmi Savage, H, Taylor, CJ & Cleland, J 2024, '', BMJ Considerations in Medicine, vol. 3, e000013, pp. 1-8.

Forbes, AK, Ordóñez-Mena, JM, Mei, W, Taylor, CJ, Jones, N, Hirst, JA & Hobbs, FDR 2024, '', BJGP Open.

Comment/debate

Bayés-Genis, A & Taylor, C 2025, '', JACC: Heart Failure, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 40-42.

Letter

Sankaranarayanan, R, Hartshorne-Evans, N, Hornby, K, Barton, C, Hyland, R, Campbell, G, Khan, N, Campbell, P, Satchithananda, D & Taylor, CJ 2024, '', JACC: Heart Failure, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 660-662.

Review article

Halliday, BP, Ahmed, FZ, Beezer, J, Fuat, A, Ludman, AJ, Pellicori, P, Oluwasefunmi Savage, H, Taylor, CJ & Cleland, JGF 2024, '', BMJ Considerations in Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1, e000010.

Expertise

I am media trained and happy to comment on any areas relevant to General Practice.