Dr Mike Bracher, a social scientist, is a Research Fellow in the Cancer Survivorship and End of Life Research Group within the Faculty of Health Sciences. He is currently Project Coordinator for the True Nth Decision Support Understanding Consequences project. This project is aimed at improving decision support for men diagnosed with low to intermediate risk prostate cancer by developing a complex intervention involving clinical training, and the implementation of patient decision aids and audio-recording of consultations for patients.

My research interests are in the uses of data from applied health research to drive improvements in healthcare by: better understanding the needs of specific populations; understanding social and organisational processes that promote or inhibit successful provision of services or implementation of new technologies and innovations; developing models and tools from theoretical and empirical knowledge of experiences and/or processes in healthcare, as a basis for service improvement.

Exploring experiences of cancer care in Wales – a thematic analysis of free-text responses to the 2013 Wales Cancer Patient Experience Survey (WCPES) - Bracher, Michael, Corner, Jessica and Wagland, Richard Published:2016Publication:BMJ OpenVolume:6, (9)Page Range:1-42doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011830 Development and testing of a text-mining approach to analyse patients’ comments on their experiences of colorectal cancer care - Wagland, R., Recio Saucedo, A., Simon, M., Bracher, M., Hunt, K., Foster, C.L., Downing, A. and Corner, J.L. Published:2015Publication:BMJ Quality & SafetyVolume:25Page Range:1-26doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004063PMID:26512131