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Natalie Joseph-Williams

Dr Natalie Joseph-Williams

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Teams and roles for Natalie Joseph-Williams

Overview

Overview

I am a Reader in Improving Patient Care and Associate Director of the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre at Cardiff University's School of Medicine. 

With 18 years experience of person centred care research, I have a strong track record in publishing impactful findings that have informed national training programmes, NHS healthcare policy, NICE guidelines and international standards in the field of person centred care. 

To ensure our research delivers benefits to patients, clinicians and healthcare organisations, I work in close collaboration with national and international organisations. These include Welsh Government, Public Health Wales, NHS Wales, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), NICE, the International Shared Decision Making Society and the International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration.

Key Leadership Roles

Publication

2025

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Articles

Monographs

Thesis

Research

 

Research and Implementation interests  Methodological interests 
  • Shared decision making 
  • Person centred healthcare
  • Patient-reported safety 
  • Training health and care professionals 
  • Implementation science
  • Qualitative research 
  • Knowledge mobilisation and impact 
  • Public invovlement and Engagement 

Research Programmes 

RAPID-Involve - Understanding best practices for enabling puposeful public invovlement and capturing public impact in rapid evidence research

Forthcoming 

 

ALPACA - Anastomotic Leak Prediction After Colorectal Anastomosis

https://www.alpaca-study.org.uk/

Health and Care Research Wales Health Research Award

2024 - 2026

 

Treatment for bowel cancer usually involves surgery, where the cancer is removed and the two ends of bowel are joined back together to restore normal function. However, joining the bowel back together carries a risk of a leak. 

Funded by Health and Care Research Wales, our research aims to validate a new diagnostic test that can detect a leak earlier and more accurately. If introduced in clinical practice, such a test would improve the management of patients after surgery, help improve outcomes and quality of life for patients, and ultimately save costs for the NHS. 

 

STALLED - Safety, clinical, systems effects and costs of ambuLances queuing with delayed patient handovers at Emergency Departments

https://www.fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/NIHR159967 

NIHR HSDR Programme 

2024 - 2027

There has been a problem in the UK and other countries for many years, that at busy times Emergency Departments (ED) become unable to manage the flow of patients. Patients remain in the ambulance, sometimes for several hours. In some areas this practice is rare, in others it is common.  When ambulances are queuing, patients are not receiving full ED care and ambulances are unavailable, so there are ‘knock-on’ effects on patients and staff throughout the urgent and emergency care system.

We aim to provide evidence about what works to reduce harms related to ambulance queuing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching

Undergraduate

I am involved in the planning and delivery of the C21 Medical Programme (MBBCh) at Cardiff University. 

I am course lead for Year 3 MBBCh Evidence Based Medicine, and design and run various undergraduate sessions (lectures, tutorials, experience weeks) throughout the five year C21 Programme:

  • Evidence Based Medicine (Year 3 medical students) - topics include research design, critical appraisal, evidence based practice, shared decision making and quality improvement 
  • Organising and delivering Student Selected Components (SSCs) for Year 3 and 4 medical students

I also support the Intercalated Medical Degree Programmes (Population Medicine, Medical Education and Emergency, Pre-hopsital and Immediate Care) 

  • Design and deliver various teaching sessions - writing for the medical literature, critical appraisal, literature searching
  • Supervise and assess dissertation projects, supporting students to write a publication from their work

 

Continuing Professional Education  

I have designed or contributed to various Shared Decision Making continuing professional development training programmes, available to NHS staff in the UK.  

  • 'Shared Decision Making Train the Trainer' Programme for Public Health Wales

This work formed the basis of a REF 2021 Impact Case Study. 

  • Shared Decision Making programme for Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW)

This programme is due to be launched in Winter 2025, and will be hosted on the HEIW Y Ty Dysgu platform. 

 

Other teaching, supervision and mentoring duties include: 

  • Supervision of PhD students
  • Personal tutor for MBBCh students
  • Chair / member of postgraduate research progress review panels
  • External PhD Examiner 

Supervisions

Current supervision

Contact Details

Email JosephNJ1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29206 87141
Campuses Neuadd Meirionnydd, Room 8th floor, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4YS

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Patient safety
  • Patient and Public Involvement
  • health service delivery
  • Health services and systems
  • Patient information