Professor Andrew Clegg is Theme Lead for the Health and Care in our Ageing Society theme.
He is also Head of Ageing and Stroke Research at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Professor Clegg is Director of the global Ageing Research Trialist (ART) Collaborative, which was established to support individual participant data meta-analyses in ageing research, and Co-Director of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) North.
Professor Clegg leads a substantial portfolio of ageing-related research, with a particular focus on frailty as a complex and problematic expression of multimorbidity in later life, as well as medicines optimisation. He has secured approximately £44 million in research funding as lead or co-investigator. This includes leadership of a research theme focused on improving care for older people with frailty within the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber, and a workstream within the NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Musculoskeletal Theme.
His research expertise spans clinical trials of interventions, prognostic modelling using routine data, applied epidemiology, and evidence synthesis. He is Chief Investigator for the NIHR-funded Personalised Care Planning for Older People with Frailty (PROSPER) Research Programme, the Community Ageing Research 75+ study, and the Wellbeing in Later Life in Bradford longitudinal cohort study with routine data linkage. He is also Co-Chief Investigator for the NIHR HTA-funded Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for Older People with Heart Failure and Frailty (CHART) trial.
Professor Clegg previously led the development, validation, and national implementation of the multi-award-winning electronic frailty index (eFI), which is recommended in the NICE Multimorbidity Guideline. Developed using data from approximately one million UK patients within the ResearchOne and THIN primary care research databases, the eFI has had a significant impact on UK health policy and was selected as a National Medical Schools Council Impact Case Exemplar in 2022.
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Currently, the UK and international guidelines support routine identification of frailty in primary care to enable timely and targeted care for older people. Our Older people with Frailty theme lead,...
The Community Ageing Research (CARE75+) Study is a longitudinal cohort study that recruits older people (≥ 75 years) via General Practices across England. The study is hosted at Bradford Teaching...