Ramesh Walpola

Biographic Data

ID6900510
NAMERamesh Walpola
GIVEN NAMESRamesh
FAMILY NAMEWalpola
SIGNATUREWALPOLA R
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0001-6739-0558
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Patient and Family Perspectives on Statutory Duty of Candour Following Serious Adverse Patient Safety Events

    Open AccessCorey Adams, Lorelle Bowditch et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

  • A Codesigned Approach to Develop Tailored Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies in Bangladesh

    Open AccessAbdullah Al‐Masud, Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2026

  • A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Statutory Duty of Candour in Victorian Health Services

    Open AccessReema Harrison, Corey Adams et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2025

    BACKGROUND: A statutory duty of candour (SDC) was introduced in 2022 in the Australian state of Victoria to increase openness and honesty with patients and families about healthcare adverse events. SDC requires each healthcare service entity by law to provide the patient or their family or carer who experiences an adverse event with; a written account of the facts, an apology, a description of the health service's response to the event, and the s…

  • Patient Safety Events Among People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Kathryn Joseph et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2025

    Patient safety events in cancer care occur frequently among patients from ethnic minority backgrounds. Unsafe cancer care for this population is associated with inadequate use of interpreters, lack of shared understanding and expectations of care processes linked to cultural and linguistic barriers. Approaches to enhance engagement are required

  • The Hush Project

    Open AccessCorey Adams, Ramesh Walpola et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    BACKGROUND: Poor quality sleep in hospitals may be problematic for patients, negatively impacting their recovery and wellbeing. This project aimed to investigate the effectiveness of codesign in addressing key issues affecting sleep disruption in the healthcare setting. METHODS: Codesign with patients, staff and consumer representatives was conducted in an acute metropolitan tertiary public hospital in Sydney, Australia. Through a four-stage proc…

  • Creating safer cancer care with ethnic minority patients

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Bronwyn Newman et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: Effective consumer engagement practices can enhance patient safety. This is important for consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds who are exposed to increased risk of patient safety events. Using the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model, this study explored staff experiences of creating opportunities for engagement with consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds to contribute to their cancer care safety. METHOD…

  • Improving primary health care quality for refugees and asylum seekers

    Open AccessMaha Pervaz Iqbal, Ramesh Walpola et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

  • Assessing the environment for engagement in health services

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Bronwyn Newman et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

    INTRODUCTION: Although it is widely accepted that the physical environment can impact health quality and care outcomes, its impact on consumer engagement with health services has not been examined. Currently, no tools exist that assess the opportunities for consumer engagement offered within the physical environment. We aimed to develop and validate an environmental audit tool to assist health services and researchers to assess the extent to whic…

  • The ultimate question? Evaluating the use of Net Promoter Score in healthcare

    Open AccessCorey Adams, Ramesh Walpola et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

  • How do health services engage culturally and linguistically diverse consumers? An analysis of consumer engagement frameworks in Australia

    Open AccessAshfaq Chauhan, Ramesh Walpola et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2021

    BACKGROUND: Engagement frameworks provide the conceptual structure for consumer engagement in healthcare decision making, but the level to which these frameworks support culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) consumer engagement is not known. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate how consumer engagement is conceptualised and operationalized and to determine the implications of current consumer engagement frameworks for engagement with …