Professor Andrew Carson-Stevens
Specialty Lead for Primary Care and Senior Research Leader
Professor Andrew Carson-Stevens is a General Practitioner in South Wales, a Health and Care Research Wales Senior Research Leader and the Director of the Wales Centre for Primary and Emergency Care Research (PRIME Centre Wales), a Health and Care Research Wales funded research centre working in collaboration across four Welsh universities.
As the Health and Care Research Wales Primary Care Specialty Lead, Professor Carson-Stevens is working to support and build capacity and capability amongst the primary care workforce to provide patients and the public with opportunities to participate in research and clinical trials in community settings.
Professor Carson-Stevens is Clinical Professor of Patient Safety and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Patient Safety Learning and Improvement at the Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University. At Cardiff University, Professor Carson-Stevens convenes the Patient Safety Research Group (the 'PISA group') with expertise investigating the nature and burden of avoidable harm in healthcare (including in prisons), inclusive of methodological advances to measure safety outcomes across health and social care contexts. His latest National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) Health and Social Care Delivery Research funded projects are focussed on handover delays in Emergency Departments and the safety of home-based care
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)