I am a clinical reader of patient safety and quality improvement at Cardiff University and an NHS GP in south Wales.

My Fellowship enabled me to build a network of research collaborators in Australia to advance a programme of research I was just starting to build in the UK. Learning from those research leaders, I have built a research group at Cardiff University with internationally recognised expertise to understand the epidemiology of healthcare-associated harm.

The Fellowship also supported me to accept a visiting professorship in healthcare improvement and leadership and to build substantive collaborations with methodological experts at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Such innovative methods are helping my research group to advance how healthcare systems identify, monitor and act on risks that could result in unsafe or substandard care.

Early in my academic career, the Fellowship supported me to learn with and from the world's leading experts in my field to advance knowledge and understanding of healthcare-associated harm in primary care, where there had previously been a paucity of research and development internationally.