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Beth Fylan

Professor in Healthcare Systems and Safety

Area
School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences
E-mail
B.Fylan@bradford.ac.uk
Phone
+441274236952
Beth Fylan
9 research projects
48 publications
1 award

Biography

Beth Fylan is Professor in Healthcare Systems and Safety and Deputy Director of the National Institute for Health Research Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (NIHR Yorkshire and Humber PSRC) based at Bradford Institute for Health Research. Beth also leads the Supporting Safe Care in the Home research theme of the PSRC and is a co-investigator in the NIHR Policy Research Unit for Quality, Safety and Outcomes in Health and Social Care.

Beth is an experienced applied health and social researcher. Her research areas include patient safety, medicines optimisation, care transitions, deprescribing, resilient healthcare and  implementation of pharmacogenomic testing.

Beth has worked extensively in the UK designing and delivering research for national and local government, NHS organisations, charities, and the private sector. Her research has included national evaluations of health-related policy, for example she led the qualitative national evaluation with GPs of the Statement of Fitness for Work for the Department for Work and Pensions. She has also developed and delivered training programmes in research and evaluation methods. Beth is co-supervisor to a number of PhD students at the University of Bradford exploring patient safety, medicines optimisation and pharmacogenomics.

As visiting Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, she co-supervises three NIHR PSTRC PhD students working on: the role of pharmacy in deprescribing; uncertainty in emergency admissions decisions; minoritised healthcare workers' experiences of incivility and the potential impact on the safety of patient care.

Beth is also academic career development lead for the PSRC.

Research

Patient safety; Care transitions; Medicines management; Deprescibing; Resilience in healthcare systems; Personal health records; Social network analysis.

Research projects

Date
Role
Deputy Director and Academic Career Development Lead

National infrastructure award. £5.8 million.

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Role
Co-investigator

National infrastructure award. £5.5million.

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to
Role
Co-investigator

NIHR RFPB. £152K.

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Role
Co-applicant

Evaluating the feasibility of the My Medicines Journey medicines continuity intervention. NIHR Research for Patient Benefit £250K

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Role
Chief Investigator

Developing an intervention to support polyphamracy management. NIHR RFPB. £156K.

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Role
Co-Chief Investigator

Designing and evaluating the feasiblity of an intervention to support people living with dementia and famility carers to manage medicines. NIHR RFPB £250K.

Professional activities

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (21 May 2024)

  • PSTRC Executive Group,
  • PSTRC Advisory Board,
  • School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences External Advisory Board,

  • University of Bradford - PhD
  • University of Manchester - MSc
  • University of Birmingham - BA

  • University of Bradford - Professor in Healthcare Systems and Safety (9 April 2024)
  • University of Bradford - Associate Professor in Patient Safety (4 May 2020)
  • NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre - Assistant Director (8 January 2018)
  • University of Bradford - Programme Manager (14 March 2016)
  • Brainbox Research - Director / Senior Researcher (7 January 2008)

Publications

  • The assessment of safety incidents reported by recently discharged older adults

    J. Tomlinson; J. Silcock; H. Smith; K. Karban; B. Fylan (2020) Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

  • Defining medicines reconciliation for patients using qualitative consensus methods with a Patient-Public Involvement panel.

    Khan S, Hamilton N, Morgan JD, Fylan B, Urban R, Blenkinsopp A (2018) Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice Conference . 26 (Suppl 1)