St Leonards’s Practice, Exeter

1903-2024

University degrees obtained by those working  in the Practice

GPs

Two doctorates
Three honorary doctorates
Three MPhils
Two MScs

Nurse Practitioner

MSc

Attached midwife

MSc

Attached district nurse

BA

Attached physiotherapist

BSc

Practice- employed post-doctoral Research Fellows

First British general practice to employ three successive post-doctoral Research Fellows. Current post holder Kate Sidaway-Lee PhD.

Student involvement

• Attached student was awarded the Quintiles Prize for Women in Science for work undertaken in the Practice.

• Five GP trainees were co-authors of articles in medical journals.

• Four medical students were co-authors in 12 articles published in the peer-reviewed medical literature including two who were authors of the first systematic review of doctor continuity and mortality (721 citations).

Professorships from the Practice

Five GPs who were managing partners in the Practice were appointed full Professors of the University of Exeter between 1986-2023

Professor Sir Denis Pereira Gray, now clinically retired
Professor Kieran Sweeney (deceased)
Professor Adrian Freeman, now clinically retired
Professor Philip Evans, now clinically retired
Professor Alex Harding, now Senior Partner