Dr Paul Bowie

• Registered and Chartered Member of the CIEHF
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (Hon)

• PhD, ‘Significant event analysis in general medical practice’, University of Glasgow, UK.
• MSc in Applied Ergonomics (with Distinction), Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
• BA Applied Social Studies (Sociology of Human Work), University of Paisley, Paisley, UK.

• Human Factors & Ergonomics
• Patient Safety
• Quality Improvement
• Safety investigation and learning
• Safety culture

• Healthcare safety investigation practice and team learning reviews.
• Safety culture reflection, practice and assessment.
• Safety and improvement in primary care.
• Clinical education research.
• Human Factors integration with quality improvement activity.
• Translation, implementation and evaluation of Human Factors concepts and methods in healthcare

I have provided expert Human Factors, risk and safety consultancy to UK and international medical defence, independent investigation, commercial healthcare, aviation, military and academic organisations.

Undergraduate

• Research Skills
• Independent projects
• Getting Published
• Foundational Human Factors concepts and tools
• Patient safety evidence and practice

Postgraduate

• Research Skills and Methods
• Independent projects
• Getting Published
• Foundational and Advanced Human Factors concepts and tools
• Patient safety evidence, policy, practice and education

Faculty Development

• Building capacity and capability in foundational Human Factors theory and practice

• Thomas Purchase, Alison Cooper, Delyth Price, Emma Dorgeat, Huw Williams, Paul Bowie, Jean-Pascal Fournier, Peter Hibbert, Adrian Edwards, Rhiannon Phillips, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Andrew Carson-Stevens. Analysis of applying a patient safety taxonomy to patient and clinician-reported incident reports during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 23, 234 (2023)
• Nichole Pereira, Jonathan P Duff, Tracy Hayward, Tamizan Kherani, Nadine Moniz, Chrystale Champigny, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Paul Bowie, Rylan Egan. Methods for studying medication safety following electronic health record implementation in acute care: a scoping review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2023;, ocad231, https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocad231
• P Bowie, A Ross, T Purchase, D McNab, H Hughes, L Donovan, D Benson, M Makeham and A Carson-Stevens. Patient safety learning for healthcare improvement: considering the “system context” in medico-legal cases? Journal of Personal Injury Law. (In Press)
• H Elliot-Mainwaring, C Phillips, P Bowie. Exploring patient safety in maternity and midwifery care. Practising Midwife. (In Press)
• H Elliot-Mainwaring, C Phillips, P Bowie. Human Factors in maternity services. Practising Midwife. (In Press)
• H Elliot-Mainwaring, C Phillips, P Bowie. Changing worldviews: How can a Systems Approach support midwifery and maternity care? Practising Midwife. (In Press)
• H Elliot-Mainwaring, C Phillips, P Bowie. Working together to deliver safe care. Practising Midwife. (In Press)
• Bowie P. Davidson I, Kumar M. The need for certification of safety investigators and learning reviewers in Scotland’s health service. International Journal of Quality in Healthcare Communications. Volume 3, Issue 1, 2023, lyad004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijcoms/lyad004
• Ross A, Anderson JE, Selveindran S, MacBride T, Bowie P, Sherriff A, Young L, Fioratou E, Roddy E, Edwards H, Dewar B, Macpherson LM. A qualitative study of organisational resilience in care homes in Scotland. PLoS One. 2022 Dec 20;17(12):e0279376. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279376. PMID: 36538564; PMCID: PMC9767361.
• Slater D, Hollnagel E, MacKinnon R, Sujan M, Carson-Stevens A, Ross A, Bowie P. A systems analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic response in the United Kingdom - Part 1 - The overall context. Saf Sci. 2022 Feb;146:105525. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105525. Epub 2021 Oct 9. PMID: 34658531; PMCID: PMC8501230.
• Yardley S, Williams H, Bowie P, Edwards A, Noble S, Donaldson L, Carson-Stevens A. 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. 2022 Jan 3;12(1):e048045. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048045. PMID: 34980606; PMCID: PMC8724735.
• Sujan M, Pickup L, Bowie P, Hignett S, Ives F, Vosper H, Rashid N. The contribution of human factors and ergonomics to the design and delivery of safe future healthcare. Future Healthc J. 2021 Nov;8(3):e574-e579. doi: 10.7861/fhj.2021-0112. PMID: 34888444; PMCID: PMC8651318.
• McLeod R, Russell W, Stewart M, Bowie P. Preliminary case report study of training and support needed to conduct bowtie analysis in healthcare. BMJ Open Quality 2021;10:e001240. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001240
• Fournier JP, Amélineau JB, Hild S, Nguyen-Soenen J, Daviot A, Simonneau B, Bowie P, Donaldson L, Carson-Stevens A. Patient-safety incidents during COVID-19 health crisis in France: An exploratory sequential multi-method study in primary care. Eur J Gen Pract. 2021 Dec;27(1):142-151. doi: 10.1080/13814788.2021.1945029. PMID: 34212814; PMCID: PMC8259874.
• Toccafondi G, Di Marzo F, Sartelli M, Sujan M, Smyth M, Bowie P, Cardi M, Cardi M. Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021 Jan 12;33(Supplement_1):51-55. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa137. PMID: 33432983; PMCID: PMC7802066.
• Catchpole K, Bowie P, Fouquet S, Rivera J, Hignett S. Frontiers in human factors: embedding specialists in multi-disciplinary efforts to improve healthcare. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021 Jan 12;33(Supplement_1):13-18. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa108. PMID: 32901812; PMCID: PMC7499639.
• Bowie P, Baylis D, Price J, Bradshaw P, McNab D, Ker J, Carson-Stevens A, Ross A. Is the 'never event' concept a useful safety management strategy in complex primary healthcare systems? Int J Qual Health Care. 2021 Jan 12;33(Supplement_1):25-30. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa101. PMID: 33432982.
• Bowie P, de Wet C, Crickett T, McCulloch J, Young P, Freestone J, Watson P, Houston N, Gillies J, McNab D. User redesign, testing and evaluation of the Monitoring Risk and Improving System Safety (MoRISS) checklist for the general practice work environment. BMJ Open Qual. 2020 Nov;9(4):e000977. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-000977. PMID: 33184042; PMCID: PMC7662415.
• Hignett S, Edmonds J, Herlihey T, Pickup L, Bye R, Crumpton E, Sujan M, Ives F, Jenkins DP, Newbery M, Embrey D, Bowie P, Ramsden C, Rashid N, Williamson A, Bougeard AM, MacNaughton P. Human factors/ergonomics to support the design and testing of rapidly manufactured ventilators in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. Int J Qual Health Care. 2021 Jan 12;33(Supplement_1):4-10. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzaa089. PMID: 32780821; PMCID: PMC7454670.
• Toma M, Blamey A, Mahal D, Thakore S, Bowie P. Multi-method evaluation of a national clinical fellowship programme to build leadership capacity for quality improvement. BMJ Open Quality 2020;9:e000978. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-000978
• McNab D, McKay J, Shorrock S, Luty S, Bowie P. Development and application of 'systems thinking' principles for quality improvement. BMJ Open Qual. 2020 Mar;9(1):e000714. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000714. PMID: 32209593; PMCID: PMC7103793.
• Jordache R, Doherty C, Kenny C, Bowie P. Preliminary Adaptation, Development, and Testing of a Team Sports Model to Improve Briefing and Debriefing in Neonatal Resuscitation. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2020 Jan 27;5(1):e228. doi: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000228. PMID: 32190791; PMCID: PMC7056292.
• Foster TL, Bowie P. Professional values and behaviours of younger and older general practitioners in Scotland: a cross-sectional survey. BMJ Leader 2020;4:57-63.
• Baylis D, Price J, Bowie P. Content analysis of 50 clinical negligence claims involving test results management systems in general practice. BMJ Open Quality 2018;7:e000463. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2018-000463
• de Wet C, Bowie P, O'Donnell CA. Facilitators and barriers to safer care in Scottish general practice: a qualitative study of the implementation of the trigger review method using normalisation process theory. BMJ Open. 2019 Sep 18;9(9):e029914. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029914. PMID: 31537569; PMCID: PMC6756363.
• Morris RL, Cheraghi-Sohi S, Bowie P, Esmail A, de Wet C, Campbell SM. Never events in general practice: a focus group study exploring the views of English and Scottish general practitioners of 'never events'. BMJ Open. 2019 Jul 23;9(7):e028927. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-028927. PMID: 31340968; PMCID: PMC6661597.
• Pickup L, Nugent B, Bowie P. A preliminary ergonomic analysis of the MRI work system environment: Implications and recommendations for safety and design. Radiography (Lond). 2019 Nov;25(4):339-345. doi: 10.1016/j.radi.2019.04.001. Epub 2019 Apr 26. PMID: 31582242.
• McNab D, Freestone J, Black C, Carson-Stevens A, Bowie P. Participatory design of an improvement intervention for the primary care management of possible sepsis using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method. BMC Med. 2018 Oct 11;16(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1164-x. PMID: 30305088; PMCID: PMC6180427.
• Jolly J, Bowie P, Dawson L, Heslington L, Dinwoodie M. Evaluation of a simulation-based Risk Management and Communication Masterclass to reduce the risk of complaints, medicolegal and dentolegal claims. BMJ Simul Technol Enhanc Learn. 2020 Mar 2;6(2):69-75. doi: 10.1136/bmjstel-2018-000392. PMID: 35516079; PMCID: PMC8936816.
• McNab D, Freestone J, Black C, Carson-Stevens A, Bowie P. Participatory design of an improvement intervention for the primary care management of possible sepsis using the Functional Resonance Analysis Method. BMC Med. 2019 Oct 11;16(1):174. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1164-x. PMID: 30305088; PMCID: PMC6180427.