Dr Ian Porter

Dr Ian Porter is a Research Fellow within APEx (Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care) at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on improving care for people living with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC), with particular interests in patient-reported outcomes and experiences, models of care, primary care systems, and stakeholder-informed research prioritisation.

Ian currently works on the NIHR-funded Multiple Long-Term Conditions Priority Setting Partnership (MLTC PSP), delivered in partnership with the James Lind Alliance (JLA), which aims to identify the most important unanswered research questions relating to care for people living with multiple long-term conditions. This work brings together people with lived experience, carers, healthcare professionals, and wider stakeholders to shape future research priorities.

He is also involved in the analysis and evaluation of data from the OECD’s International Survey of People Living with Chronic Conditions (PaRIS survey), one of the largest international studies of patient-reported outcomes and experiences in primary care, involving more than 100,000 participants across 19 countries. Ian contributed to the development of the PaRIS Patient Questionnaire (PaRIS-PQ) and conceptual framework, helping to establish internationally comparable measures of outcomes and experiences for people living with chronic conditions.

His wider research spans multimorbidity, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), person-centred care, healthcare organisation and delivery, evidence synthesis, and methods for involving patients and stakeholders in research. Ian has extensive experience in qualitative, mixed-methods and international collaborative research, including systematic reviews, consensus methods, survey development, psychometric evaluation, and stakeholder engagement.