Nina Fudge
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Nina Fudge is a health services researcher whose work sits at the intersection of patient safety, polypharmacy, and the everyday realities of healthcare work. Her research critically examines how medicines safety is constructed and enacted in complex clinical environments, particularly where patients are managing multiple long-term conditions. In her most-cited ethnographic study, “‘It’s all about patient safety’: an ethnographic study of how pharmacy staff construct medicines safety in the context of polypharmacy” (2021, 6 citations), Fudge challenges conventional, policy-driven framings of medication safety. She reveals how pharmacy staff navigate tensions between standardised safety protocols and the messy, relational work of caring for patients on multiple medications. By foregrounding the social and organisational dimensions of safety, Fudge’s work has important implications for how we design safer, more person-centred systems for polypharmacy management. Her research is notable for its methodological depth and its insistence on understanding safety from the ground up—through the eyes of practitioners. For students and researchers interested in patient safety, ethnography, or the sociology of healthcare work, Fudge offers a vital, critical perspective on what it truly means to keep patients safe in an age of increasing medication complexity.
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