Dr Thomas Purchase

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Fellowship Programme (2024 - 2028)

Project title: IncorporAting parental health aDVOcaCy when mAnaging unwell Children in primarY care (ADVOCACY): a multi-methods systems approach to co-develop a complex intervention

Biography

Dr Tom Purchase is a General Practitioner and a Health and Care Research Wales NIHR Doctoral Fellow at Cardiff University. Tom works with the Patient Safety team at the Division of Population Medicine where his research has focussed on exploring patient safety data to generate recommendations to improve healthcare safety for vulnerable groups.

Tom has an interest in applying systems-thinking and the principles of Human Factors and Ergonomics to patient safety research to understand system complexity within healthcare.

Tom’s current fellowship aims to understand how and where parental advocacy takes place within healthcare systems. The project will explore how parents speaking up for their child can be better supported and incorporated into the management of unwell children in primary care. This will help inform the co-development of an intervention to help parents and healthcare staff work together to reduce healthcare-associated harms.

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