Professor Richard Baker, Emeritus Professor, and First Head of the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester, 2003 – 2010.  He was Director of the NIHR CLAHRC for LNR, 2008 - 2013.Richard is an academic general practitioner with continuing research interests in the effect of primary health care on population mortality. He was a general practitioner first in Cheltenham 1977 to 1992, and then in Leicester City 1992 to 2013. and an academic at Bristol and then Leicester Universities. His past research has focused on the quality of care, and included methods of clinical audit, clinical governance, and guideline development and implementation. He also undertook research into patient experience of general practice, interventions to improve the quality of care, development of guidelines (with NICE), continuity of care and the outcomes of primary health care. He has also undertaken investigations of patterns of mortality.