Rate My Professor Beth Fylan

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.