Biography
Professor Martin Roland trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree and his doctorate. Following vocational training for general practice in Cambridge, he worked in London and Cambridge before moving to the Chair of General Practice in the University of Manchester in 1992. In 1994, he established and subsequently became Director of the National Primary Care Research and Development Centre. Between 2006 and 2009, he was also Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, a collaboration between the five leading departments of primary care in England. In 2009, he moved to the inaugural RAND Chair of Health Services Research at the University of Cambridge where he founded and directed the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research (CCHSR), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and RAND Europe, until his retirement in 2016. Professor Roland was clinically active throughout his career. His main areas of research interest are developing methods of measuring quality of care and evaluating interventions to improve care, in both cases with a focus on primary care using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Professor Roland was appointed CBE for services to medicine in 2003.
Research
Health Services Research. Primary Care. Quality of Care.
Publications
Morales D, Minchin M, Kontopantelis E, Roland M, Sutton M, Guthrie B. Estimated impact from the withdrawal of primary care financial incentives on selected indicators of quality of care in Scotland: controlled interrupted time series analysis BMJ 2023;380:e072098
Hanson K, Brikci N, Erlangga D et al. The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary care: putting people at the centre. Lancet Global Health April 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/ S2214-109X(22)00005-5
Lewis R, Checkland K, Durand M, Ling T, Mays N, Roland M, Smith J. Integrated care in England – what can we learn from a decade of national pilot programmes? International Journal of Integrated Care 2021;21(S2):5
Roland M, Everington S, Marshall M. Social Prescribing – Transforming the Relationship between Physicians and their Patients. New England Journal of Medicine 2020; 383: 97-99.
Minchin M, Roland M, Richardson J, Rowark S, Guthrie B. Quality of care in the United Kingdom after removal of financial incentives. New England Journal of Medicine 2018; 379: 948-57
Kristensen SR, Meacock R, Turner AJ, Boaden R, McDonald R, Roland M, Sutton M. Long-term effect of hospital pay for performance on mortality in England. New England Journal of Medicine 2014; 371(6): 540-8
Roland M, Campbell S. Successes and Failures of the United Kingdom’s Pay for Performance Program. New England Journal of Medicine 2014; 370:1944-1949
Roland M, Rosen R. Healthcare reform: the English NHS embarks on bold but risky market-style reforms New England Journal of Medicine 2011; 364: 1360-66
