Professor Pauline Ong, Professor of Health Services Research at the ARC National Primary Care Centre at Keele University in Staffordshire, has been awarded an honorary OBE for services to healthcare.
Honorary decorations and awards are granted to people from other countries who have made a significant contribution to relations between the United Kingdom and their own country. These awards are granted on the advice of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Professor Pauline Ong
HM The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve an honorary OBE for Professor Ong, who is a Dutch citizen. She has worked at Keele since 1989, first at the Centre for Health Planning and Management, and since 2000 as Professor of Health Services Research at the ARC National Primary Care Centre.
Professor Ong leads the qualitative research group, focusing on patients’ experiences of living with musculoskeletal conditions. The group also carries out research on perceptions of health care professionals and diagnosis and treatment of these conditions, and the way in which new developments are adopted and embedded in routine practice. The qualitative research is embedded within the overall research programme of the Centre which includes population surveys and trials. The Group’s work has received considerable funding from the ARC, MRC, Wellcome, NIHR, ESRC and the Health Foundation.
She was a non-executive director at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals Trust in 1993, then at South Cheshire Health Authority and was Chair of Central Cheshire Primary Care Trust from 2002 to 2006. Since 2006 she has been the Chair for Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust. The PCT has been successful in a number of innovative schemes in improving quality in primary care, social inclusion, patient and public involvement, urgent care and care outside hospital. The PCT is also working closely with the ARC National Primary Care Centre on a number of research studies, and both GP practices and physiotherapists are actively involved.
Professor Ong is a member of the new National Clinical Audit Advisory Group, overseeing the national clinical audit strategy and advising ministers.
Professor Ong said: “While the OBE is given to an individual, it is a reflection on the achievements of the teams within which that individual works. In my case these teams are the excellent group of people at the PCT and the research centre.”
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