Professor Andrew Carson-Stevens
Specialty Lead for Primary Care
Health and Care Research funding award:
Award: NHS Research Time Award
Project title: Work on studies already undertaken, to write up, submit for publication and use the time to turn the available evidence into high impact grant applications
Professor Andrew Carson-Stevens is a General Practitioner and health services researcher with an international reputation in leading research into how health and social care organisations learn from unsafe care experienced by patients and families. He has a PhD in patient safety and trained as a Quality Improvement Advisor at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Boston, USA). Andrew’s research is focussed on how healthcare systems generate and act on learning from patient safety incidents (medical error), particularly within primary care where there has been a major paucity of patient safety research and development. His Patient Safety Research Group in the Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University has expertise:
- investigating the frequency and avoidability of significant harm in healthcare;
- identifying patient safety priority areas from analysis of patient safety data and knowledge mobilisation with stakeholders including NHS organisations and policymakers;
- methodological innovation for sharing learning from medical error within (national) and between countries (international) including the development of taxonomy;
- developing machine learning (artificial intelligence) approaches for automating patient safety data analysis;
- development and implementation of interventions to minimise harm to patients in health and social care settings; and,
- mixed methods evaluation of quality improvement initiatives.
Andrew is the Patient Safety Research Leader at the Wales Centre for Primary and Emergency Care Research (PRIME Centre Wales).
From 2016-2017, Andrew was the Royal College of General Practitioner's Clinical Lead for Patient Safety.
He is an adviser to the World Health Organization on patient safety and contributes to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development working group for patient-reported safety outcomes.
In the news:
Health and Care Research Wales invests in leaders across Wales to shape the research of the future (April 2022)
Wales to play major role in UK-wide antiviral study into new treatments for COVID-19 (December 2021)
Cardiff research participants play vital role in showing safety of simultaneous COVID-19 and flu vaccines (October 2021)
Cardiff and Vale volunteers needed to take part in COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine research study (May 2021)
It’s a PRIME time to improve urgent eye care (June 2019)
The Welsh ‘code-breaker’ making our visits to the GP safer (December 2018)
Nurse-led interventions to minimise adverse drug reactions for older adults in care homes (June 2018)