Rate My Professor Beth Fylan

Professor Beth Fylan is Professor of Healthcare Systems and Safety in the School of Pharmacy, Optometry and Medical Sciences at the University of Bradford. She holds a BA from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics from the University of Manchester, and a PhD from the University of Bradford, focusing on the medicines-related professional and informal social networks of cardiology patients following hospital discharge. Her career encompasses roles as Director and Senior Researcher at Brainbox Research since January 2008, Programme Manager at the University of Bradford from March 2016, Assistant Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration since January 2018, Associate Professor in Patient Safety from May 2020, and Professor of Healthcare Systems and Safety from April 2024. Beth Fylan is also Deputy Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration, hosted at the Bradford Institute for Health Research.

Beth Fylan's research specializations include the design, implementation, and evaluation of safer healthcare systems, patient safety, medicines optimisation, care transitions, deprescribing practices, hospital at home care, and the clinical implementation of pharmacogenomic testing. She conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods applied health and social research at the interface of national health policy, clinical practice, and patient experience, with specific interests in resilience in healthcare systems, personal health records, and social network analysis. Key publications encompass 'Patient work self-managing medicines: a skilled job at the sharp end of care' (Fylan and Tomlinson, 2024, BMJ Quality & Safety), 'Supporting Older People Living With Frailty to Self-Manage Multiple Medicines: An Experience-Based Co-Design of a Complex Intervention Developed in UK Primary Care' (Previdoli et al., 2025, Health Expectations), 'Incivility experiences of racially minoritised hospital staff, consequences for them and implications for patient care: An international scoping review' (Joseph, Mir, and Fylan, 2024, Sociology of Health & Illness), 'Implementing a Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI) for patients with heart failure: a process evaluation' (Powell et al., 2024, BMC Health Services Research), and 'Deprescribing' chapter in Essential Lifestyle Medicine (Okeowo, Fylan, and Avery, 2025, Cambridge University Press). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, awarded in May 2024, recognizing her contributions to teaching and learning in higher education.