Rate My Professor Tim Stokes

Tim Stokes specialises in health services research focused on primary care delivery and implementation science. His work employs quantitative and qualitative methodologies to investigate embedding research findings into routine clinical, organisational, and policy contexts, developing theory-informed quality improvement interventions. Much of his two-decade career has involved deprived populations and developing clinical guidelines for NICE on conditions including coughs and colds, epilepsy, and obesity. Key publications encompass 'Multimorbidity, clinical decision making and health care utilisation in general practice' (2017), 'Practice-level quality improvement interventions in primary care: a systematic review' (2015), 'HealthPathways implementation in a New Zealand health region: a qualitative study using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research' (2018), and editorials such as 'Equitable access to primary health care: better availability of GP appointments is only one piece of the jigsaw' (2025) and 'From general practice to primary health care: the importance of context' (2026), both in the Journal of Primary Health Care, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief. Stokes has received the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners award for promoting general practice and rural health (2023) and contributed to establishing a national profile in healthcare quality improvement.