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Cam Tran Phan

PhD Student

Cam Tran Phan

PhD start date: October 2024
PhD project title: Measuring and Monitoring the Safety of Care in the Home
PhD supervisors:Professor Beth Fylan, Dr Adam Sutherland, Dr Ed Breckin

Background: I am an advanced clinical pharmacist with extensive experience working across both primary and secondary care sectors within the NHS. Alongside my clinical practice, I am an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Bradford, where my work spans teaching, research, and professional practice development.

PhD overview: My PhD project focuses on improving patient safety in the delivery of intravenous therapy in the home.  The aims of my project are to identify environmental and organisational constraints, as well as the barriers, facilitators, and safety strategies experienced by patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals involved in home intravenous therapy. Informed by a scoping review of qualitative evidence, my empirical study uses ethnographic methods—including document analysis, interviews, and home-based observations—to explore real-world practices and safety challenges. Findings from my study will underpin a series of stakeholder co-design workshops that bring together individuals with lived and professional experience to collaboratively develop a framework of actions to support safe home intravenous therapy across diverse clinical contexts and home settings

Research Interest: Human Factors and Ergonomics in Patient Safety