Rate My Professor Tim Rapley

Rapley leads and contributes to numerous major research projects, many funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), such as EQUIP-IN (maximising effective social care pathways for assistive technologies for bathing, 2025-2030), SCAN (strengthening counter-fraud provision across the NHS in England, 2025-2027), ESCALATER (evaluating speech and language support at the 2-2½ year Healthy Child review, 2025-2027), and CHESS (clinical and cost-effectiveness of children’s early self-care support in neurodisability, 2024-2028). He has supervised nineteen PhD and MD students to successful completion. His key contributions include developing accessible implementation resources like the ItFits-toolkit, Implementation STakeholder Engagement Model (I-STEM), NoMAD instrument, and Normalization Process Theory (NPT) Coding Manual. These have informed NICE Guidelines (2016), the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership Audit for Transition (2018), and the NHS Long-Term Plan (2019). Notable publications include his book Doing Conversation, Discourse and Documents Analysis (2007; second edition 2018) and recent articles such as “GP workforce sustainability to maximise effective and equitable patient care: a realist review” (2026, The British Journal of General Practice) and “‘Mum feels that the decision has already been made’: From shared decision-making to negotiated compromise in Adult Social Care” (2026, Social Science & Medicine).