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Helen Atherton is a primary care health services researcher based at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on digital primary care, including the exploration of digital access and the delivery of healthcare through remote approaches. She is currently involved in studies within the UK, Denmark, and Norway, leading NIHR-funded research aimed at making access to general practice sustainable while supporting patients' use of digital services. Helen has co-authored an impact case study for REF21 on digital primary care, and she has a strong commitment to capacity building in academic primary care. Helen supervises NIHR Practice Fellow PhD students in the UK and Europe. She was previously the Deputy Head of the Academic Primary Care Unit at the University of Warwick and served as an NIHR School of Primary Care Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2012 to 2015. She obtained her PhD in Primary Care Health Services Research from Imperial College London in 2011 and has been engaged in research since 2005, including a position in general practice at St George's, University of London.