Working across disciplines to improve the quality of health and social care.
We work in partnerships and across disciplines to improve the quality of health and social care for patients.
Everyone wants high quality care at times of sickness or vulnerability. Yet health and social care systems are some of the most complex known to society.
Research is essential to identify problems, develop solutions and understand how lasting, workable and replicable improvements in healthcare can be made effectively and faster to benefit patients.
Aims
Cardiff Health and Social Care Improvement Research is a Cardiff University Research Network that unites 13 Schools and harnesses our multidisciplinary expertise to address the following six aims:
- safety - avoiding harm to patients from care intended to help them
- effectiveness - providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit
- patient-centeredness - providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual preferences, needs, and values
- timeliness - reducing waits and harmful delays for those who receive and those who give care
- efficiency - avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy
- equity - providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.
Please get in touch with Professor Davina Allen, if you would like to hear more, or if you're interested in joining the Network.
Steering group
- Davina Allen - School of Healthcare Sciences
- Paul Harper - School of Mathematics
- Kerry Hood - Centre for Trials Research
- Aoife McDermott - Cardiff Business School
Our research is founded on strong partnerships with NHS and governmental partners, industrial collaborators, patient advocacy groups, professional associations, third sector organisations, scientific societies and other internationally leading research institutions in our field.
Selected publications
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Lead researcher
Academic staff
Professor Ivor Chestnutt
Professor and Hon. Consultant in Dental Public Health
- chestnuttig@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29207 46680
Dr Michelle Aldridge-Waddon
Deputy Head of School and Head of Subject, Associate Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- aldridgem@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 9017
Professor Ben Hannigan
Professor: Mental Health Nursing and Director of Postgraduate Research
- hanniganb@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 206 88567
Professor Daniel Gartner
Professor of Operational Research
- gartnerd@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0850
Professor Jonathan Bisson
Professor, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences
- bissonji@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2068 8486
Professor Keith Harding
Clinical Professor, School of Medicine
- hardingkg@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29207 44505
Professor Mike Robling
Director of Population Health Trials
- roblingmr@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2068 7177
Professor James E Morgan
Professor in Ophthalmology, Consultant Ophthalmologist
- morganje3@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2074 3222
Professor Marcela Votruba
Professor and Hon. Consultant in Ophthalmology
- votrubam@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44(0)29 2087 0117
Professor Barbara Ryan
Director Postgraduate Taught Programmes and WOPEC Co-Director
- ryanb@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 70233
Dr Jennifer Acton
Senior Lecturer & Director of Recruitment and Admissions
- actonj@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0203
Professor Alison Bullock
Director of Research, Professor - CUREMeDE
- bullockad@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0) 29 2087 0780
Postgraduate students
Upcoming events
CHOIR and Aneurin Bevan UHB Networking Event
Tuesday 16 April 2019, 09.30 - 14.00
Location: Executive Education suite, 3rd floor of the Postgraduate Teaching Centre, Cardiff Business School, 3 Colum Drive,Cardiff, CF10 3EU
You are invited to a networking event with colleagues from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board to explore opportunities for research and other collaboration. You are also invited to remain with us for lunch and a seminar with Professor Louise Fitzgerald (Oxford University) thereafter. Louise will speak on ‘Combating challenges to improvement in healthcare’.
Event by School of Healthcare Sciences, Cardiff University
Past events
Network Launch
18 October 2018, 09:00-16:30
Location: Conference Centre University Hall, Birchwood Lane, Penylan, Cardiff, CF23 5YB
This event will formally launch the Network and will be an opportunity for you to, not only learn more about the work of the Network and engage with fellow researchers, but also to meet clinical colleagues, policy influencers and other key stakeholders. The programme is currently being finalised but, to date, plenary speakers include:
- Professor Graham Martin, University of Leicester, Professor of Health Organisation and Policy in the Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) Group at the University of Leicester.
- Professor Tim Draycott is a Consultant Obstetrician at North Bristol NHS Trust with a research interest in Patient Safety, particularly multi-professional training, simulation, team working and quality improvement in obstetrics. He currently holds a Health Foundation Improvement Science fellowship to investigate the effects of context on training and simulation. Professor Draycott has led the development of the PROMPT course, which has been associated with improved knowledge, communication, team working and direct improvements in perinatal outcome.
Network show and tell
13 May and 13 July 2018
The show and tell events were an informal networking opportunity to:
- review current activity within the Schools affiliated to the Network
- share expertise, priorities and needs
- help identify the future priorities of the Network.
These events were an opportunity for members to help influence and contribute to the development of the Network