Dr Huw Prosser Evans
Clinical Fellow in Health Informatics
- evanssh@cardiff.ac.uk
- 3rd floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4YS
Overview
I am an academic, medically qualified doctor and I create the interfaces between medicine and computing.
Splitting my time between looking after patients and working as Clinical Informatics Lead for a large research team, I can see where creative computing can solve complex clinical problems. I have been involved in numerous NHS projects, from local solutions to international systems.
Biography
Education and Qualifications
- 2013 - 2015: Foundation Programme (Wales Deanery)
- 2008 - 2013: MBBCh (Cardiff University)
Career Overview
- Aug 2015 - present: Clinical Fellow in Health Informatics
- Aug 2014 - present: Clinical Informatics and Information Governance Lead, Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University
- Aug 2014 - Aug 2015: Academic Foundation Year 2 Doctor (Cardiff and Vale University Health Board)
- Aug 2013 - Aug 2014: Foundation Year 1 Doctor (Cwm Taf University Health Board)
Professional memberships
- General Medical Council (Registered with a licence to practice)
- Level 2 Member of the UK Council of Health Informatics Professionals (UKCHIP)
- Associate Member of the British Computing Society (AMBCS)
Speaking engagements
July 2015: Society of Academic Primary Care (Oxford University) "Identification of priority areas for adult vaccine safety: mixed methods analysis of patient safety incidents reports from Primary Care in England and Wales (2003-2013)"
June 2015: Opening plenary speaker at the Kings Fund's International Digital Health and Care Congress "How do we generate learning from large volumes of patient safety incident reports in primary care?"
Publications
2020
- Evans, H. P. et al. 2020. Automated classification of primary care patient safety incident report content and severity using supervised Machine Learning (ML) approaches. Health Informatics Journal 26(4), pp. 3123-3139. (10.1177/1460458219833102)
2019
- Carson-Stevens, A. et al. 2019. Identifying 'avoidable harm' in family practice: a RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method consensus study. BMC Family Practice 20, article number: 134. (10.1186/s12875-019-0990-z)
2017
- Cooper, A. et al. 2017. Sources of unsafe primary care for older adults: a mixed-methods analysis of patient safety incident reports. Age and Ageing 46(5), pp. 833-839. (10.1093/ageing/afx044)
- Bell, B. G. et al. 2017. Understanding the epidemiology of avoidable significant harm in primary care: protocol for a retrospective cross-sectional study. BMJ Open 7(2), article number: e013786. (10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013786)
2016
- Carson-Stevens, A. et al. 2016. Characterising the nature of primary care patient safety incident reports in the England and Wales National Reporting and Learning System: a mixed-methods agenda-setting study for general practice. Health Services and Delivery Research 4(27), pp. 1-76. (10.3310/hsdr04270)
- Samuriwo, R., Evans, H. P., Williams, H., Rees, P., Hibbert, P., Makeham, M. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2016. Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group - Identifying priorities for pressure ulcer prevention in primary care.. EWMA Journal 16(1), pp. 25-26.
2015
- Williams, H. et al. 2015. Harms from discharge to primary care: mixed methods analysis of incident reports. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) 65(641), pp. e829-e837. (10.3399/bjgp15X687877)
- Carson-Stevens, A. et al. 2015. A cross-sectional mixed methods study protocol to generate learning from patient safety incidents reported from general practice. BMJ Open 5(12), article number: e009079. (10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009079)
- Omar, A. et al. 2015. Vulnerable children and their care quality issues: a descriptive analysis of a national database [Abstract]. BMJ Quality and Safety 24(11), pp. 732-733., article number: 588. (10.1136/bmjqs-2015-IHIabstracts.18)
- Rees, P. et al. 2015. Pediatric immunization-related safety incidents in primary care: a mixed methods analysis of a national database. Vaccine 33(32), pp. 3873-3880. (10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.06.068)
- Rees, P., Edwards, A., Powell, C., Evans, H. P., Panesar, S. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2015. Disparities in the quality of primary healthcare for socially deprived children. Archives of Disease in Childhood 100(3), pp. 299-300. (10.1136/archdischild-2014-307618)
2014
- Rees, P., Evans, H. P., Panesar, S., Llewelyn, M., Edwards, A. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2014. Contraindicated BCG vaccination in "at risk" infants. BMJ 349, article number: g5388. (10.1136/bmj.g5388)