Dr Gemma Louch

Profile

I am a health services researcher with over a decade of experience in patient safety research.

I am the Research Programme Manager on The Response Study at the University of Leeds. This 39-month project is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to evaluate the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) across the NHS in England. I also contribute to a theme of work around Patient Involvement in Patient Safety within the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and I am part of the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group.

Research funding:

• Maternity care quality and safety for women with learning disabilities: A scoping review. (2022-2023). £4984. The Baily Thomas Charitable Fund. Principal Investigator.
• Developing a service user centred co-designed patient safety intervention for acute mental health wards: A mixed methods process evaluation (2020-2022). £811,751. NIHR HS&DR. Co-Investigator.
• Patient and family involvement in serious incident investigations: Developing and testing national and local guiding processes (2019-2022). £894,638. NIHR HS&DR. Co-Investigator.

I currently supervise two postgraduate researchers:

• Alice Dunning
• Emily Parker

Research interests

My broad research interests include patient safety and health services improvement, and the application of health psychology theory and principles to health services research. More specifically, I have a keen interest in patient involvement in patient safety and implementation science.

Professional memberships

• Associate Editor - BMC Health Services Research
• Member of the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB), Yorkshire and North East Regional Advisory Committee

Current postgraduate researchers

• Emily Parker