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Alison Porter is an Associate Professor in Health Services Research at Swansea University's School of Medicine, within the Health Data Science department. She co-leads urgent and unscheduled care research at the PRIME Cymru Centre, a Health and Care Research Wales-funded hub focused on primary and emergency care innovation. Her work emphasizes improving healthcare delivery through organizational analysis, risk decision-making, and patient-provider communication.
Her research explores health service organization, technology implementation, data-driven commissioning, and patient involvement in care design. Key interests include unscheduled/emergency care systems, predictive risk modeling, and reducing avoidable emergency service use through primary care integration. She employs qualitative and mixed-methods approaches, often using anonymized linked datasets.
Porter's recent publications (2023-2025) cluster around public health policy evaluation (especially COVID-19 shielding), emergency care access for vulnerable groups, and paramedic integration into primary care. Trends show a strong focus on equity, real-world implementation challenges, and mixed-methods designs bridging quantitative data with stakeholder experiences.
She actively contributes to major grants, including NIHR-funded projects like STRETCHED (case management for frequent ambulance users) and GPs in EDs (general practitioner models in emergency departments), plus Welsh Government initiatives like PARE (paramedic rotations). She is available for postgraduate supervision but no specific students are named.
At the PRIME Cymru Centre, she coordinates urgent care research, supporting proposal development and interdisciplinary collaboration to optimize emergency healthcare systems.
