Establishing research priorities of primary care patients in southern Aotearoa

Analysing routinely collected primary healthcare data is a cost-effective means to understand health outcomes, patient safety and health equity. The Primary Care Research Network (PCRN) is establishing the infrastructure and data governance processes to facilitate this work. Canvasing patient opinion and addressing their concerns will raise awareness of data use and promote relationship building. This project aims to identify the research priorities of patients in southern Aotearoa. A secondary aim is to explore what patients think about the use of their anonymised data for research. Focus groups will be held. Participants will be asked questions such as “What areas in primary healthcare are the most important to focus on?” “How can we make health care fairer?” “What are the most important questions in primary healthcare that need addressing to improve health equity?” Transcribed discussions will be analysed understand these topics and help set the PCRN research agenda.