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Overview
Dr Huw Lloyd Williams is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Emergency Medicine at Cardiff University with a master's in medical education and a practicing Emergency Medicine consultant in Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
Dr Williams established the ' Emergency, Pre-hospital and Immediate Care' intercalated BSc (EPIC iBSc) degree, which was approved by Cardiff University in 2016, funded by the Welsh Government since 2017 and for which he has been the programme director since 2018. He later became the Year 3 'Hospital Front Door' Module Lead for the undergraduate MBBCh programme at Cardiff University in 2018. He became a Fellow of Advance Higher Education (FHEA) in 2019.
Dr Williams has received several awards for his work in medical education including the BEST Trainee Medical Education Award (2016), the MEDIC Star Award in Medical Education (2017), the SURGAM Rising Teaching Star Award (2018) and the BMA / BMJ Cymru Clinical Teacher of the Year Rising Star Award (2018). He has also received two nominations in the SURGAM 2020 awards for the educational eLearning and face-to-face programmes he ran during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He now runs the Emergency Medicine Academic Centre (EMAC) at Cardiff University. Current innovation projects include:
- the development of a new virtual reality eLearning platform free for all Welsh healthcare institutions / NHS and healthcare learners in Wales (a £218,000 project funded by the EU and Welsh Government via the Accelerate programme)
- establishing a VR innovation lab in the University Hospital of Wales with colleagues from the Cardiff and Vale University Healthboard (a £89,000 project funded by the Welsh Government)
Publication
2024
- Withers, K., Pardy, K., Topham, L., Lee, R., Ghanghro, A., Cryer, H. and Williams, H. 2024. A long way from Frome: improving connections between patients, local services and communities to reduce emergency admissions. BMC Primary Care 25(1), article number: 307. (10.1186/s12875-024-02557-4)
2022
- Dinnen, T. et al. 2022. Patient safety incidents in advance care planning for serious illness: a mixed-methods analysis. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 12(e3), pp. e403-e410. (10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001824)
- Yardley, S., Williams, H., Bowie, P., Edwards, A., Noble, S., Donaldson, L. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2022. Which human factors design issues are influencing system performance in out-of-hours community palliative care? Integration of realist approaches with an established systems analysis framework to develop mid-range programme theory. BMJ Open 12(1) (10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048045)
2021
- Avery, A. J. et al. 2021. Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review. BMJ Quality and Safety 30, pp. 961-976. (10.1136/bmjqs-2020-011405)
2020
- Gibson, R. et al. 2020. A mixed-methods analysis of patient safety incidents involving opioid substitution treatment with methadone or buprenorphine in community-based care in England and Wales. Addiction 115(11), pp. 2066-2076. (10.1111/add.15039)
- Omar, A. et al. 2020. Health and social care-associated harm amongst vulnerable children in primary care: mixed methods analysis of national safety reports. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105, pp. 731-737. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-318406)
- Young, S., Deslandes, P., Cooper, J., Williams, H., Kenkre, J. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2020. A mixed methods analysis of lithium-related patient safety incidents in primary care. Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety 11, pp. 1-8. (10.1177/2042098620922748)
2018
- Yardley, I., Yardley, S., Williams, H., Carson-Stevens, A. and Donaldson, L. J. 2018. Patient safety in palliative care: a mixed-methods study of reports to a national database of serious incidents. Palliative Medicine 32(8), pp. 1353-1362. (10.1177/0269216318776846)
Erthyglau
- Withers, K., Pardy, K., Topham, L., Lee, R., Ghanghro, A., Cryer, H. and Williams, H. 2024. A long way from Frome: improving connections between patients, local services and communities to reduce emergency admissions. BMC Primary Care 25(1), article number: 307. (10.1186/s12875-024-02557-4)
- Dinnen, T. et al. 2022. Patient safety incidents in advance care planning for serious illness: a mixed-methods analysis. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 12(e3), pp. e403-e410. (10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001824)
- Yardley, S., Williams, H., Bowie, P., Edwards, A., Noble, S., Donaldson, L. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2022. Which human factors design issues are influencing system performance in out-of-hours community palliative care? Integration of realist approaches with an established systems analysis framework to develop mid-range programme theory. BMJ Open 12(1) (10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048045)
- Avery, A. J. et al. 2021. Incidence, nature and causes of avoidable significant harm in primary care in England: retrospective case note review. BMJ Quality and Safety 30, pp. 961-976. (10.1136/bmjqs-2020-011405)
- Gibson, R. et al. 2020. A mixed-methods analysis of patient safety incidents involving opioid substitution treatment with methadone or buprenorphine in community-based care in England and Wales. Addiction 115(11), pp. 2066-2076. (10.1111/add.15039)
- Omar, A. et al. 2020. Health and social care-associated harm amongst vulnerable children in primary care: mixed methods analysis of national safety reports. Archives of Disease in Childhood 105, pp. 731-737. (10.1136/archdischild-2019-318406)
- Young, S., Deslandes, P., Cooper, J., Williams, H., Kenkre, J. and Carson-Stevens, A. 2020. A mixed methods analysis of lithium-related patient safety incidents in primary care. Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety 11, pp. 1-8. (10.1177/2042098620922748)
- Yardley, I., Yardley, S., Williams, H., Carson-Stevens, A. and Donaldson, L. J. 2018. Patient safety in palliative care: a mixed-methods study of reports to a national database of serious incidents. Palliative Medicine 32(8), pp. 1353-1362. (10.1177/0269216318776846)
Research
Lambert and Williams, How to run simulation in your workplace, Education for Primary Care (2014) 25: 357–9
Teaching
Programme Director - 'Emergency, Pre-hospital and Immediate Care' Intercalated BSc' (EPIC iBSc), since 2017
Module Lead - 'Hospital Front Door', Year 3 MBBCh, since 2018
Module Lead - 'Resusciation Science' EPIC iBSc, since 2022
Lecturer - 'VR in Healthcare Education' on the 'Contempory Issues module' of the 'Medicial Education' MSc, since 2023
Biography
A recent biograph and further information can be found in the Remedy (edition 34).
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising SSC and BSc students in the areas of:
- Virtual Reality Medical Education
- Resusciation Science
- Emergency Medicine
- Quality Improvement focussing on Emergency Care
Contact Details
Main Hospital Building, Room Room F32, Floor 2, Block A, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XN