Improving Patient Safety & Care 2020 Speakers

Professor Stephen Campbell
Director
NIHR Greater Manchester PSTRC

I am a Professor of Primary Care Research in the Centre for Primary Care of the Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care. I was Principal Investigator and Director of the NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre from 2012-2017 (GM PSTRC). I am Principal Investigator and ...

Helen Hughes
Chief Executive Officer
Patient Safety Learning

Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held leadership roles in healthcare in the UK and the World Health Organisation and in improvement and regulatory bodies such as the National Patient Safety Agency, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and ...

Professor Matthew Cripps
Director of Sustainable Healthcare
NHS England

Professor Matthew Cripps BA MA CPFA created and developed the RightCare approach and embedded NHS RightCare as a national programme in NHS England, active in every local health economy, with a focus on population healthcare improvement to deliver the best care to patients. He now leads on spreading the concepts of population healthcare, optimal ...

Clare Wade
Head of Patient Safety
Royal College of Physicians

Clare trained as an Operating Department Practitioner in 1996 and worked throughout Yorkshire and the East Midlands in most surgical and anaesthetic specialties and endoscopy. Clare then led the maternal death enquiry and other associated work with CEMACH for 5 years prior to working for East Midlands Ambulance Service leading patient ...

Cheryl Crocker
Patient Safety Director
AHSN Network

Cheryl is a registered nurse and teacher, having qualified in the 1980’s at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Cheryl developed a career in Critical Care Nursing and worked as a Nurse consultant at the City Hospital, Nottingham, and was lead nurse for the Mid Trent Critical Care Network. She was a recognised author and conference ...

James Dickson
Director
Piota Apps

After 20 years in finance, I started Piota in 2014 to help organisations connect to and engage their communities more effectively. The big idea was that a good app should enable a local NHS service, clinic, school, charity or other community organisation to reach its people better, whilst also saving time and cost. We now supply apps to 400+ ...

Simon Noble-Clarke
Marketing Leader
BD

Simon is the Patient Safety & marketing leader at BD. He has worked in various commercial roles for pharmaceutical and med-tech companies, principally in infection prevention and control, and is a keen proponent of collaborative provider, healthcare professional and industry collaborations to improve safety & patient outcomes.

John Welch
Nurse Consultant for critical care and critical care outreach
University College London Hospitals FT

John has degrees in psychology, and in nursing science. He worked as a Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Senior Nurse and Lecturer in critical care through the 1990s, was then appointed to one of the first Consultant Nurse posts in the UK, and set-up one of the first Critical Care Outreach services. John is now Consultant Nurse in Critical Care and ...

Gordon Sansaver
Senior Director
Virginia Mason Institute

Gordon Sansaver, MBA, is the Senior Director at Virginia Mason Institute which provides training, coaching and bespoke services to support healthcare systems to create a sustainable culture of continuous improvement. Based in London, UK, Gordon oversees the Institute’s partnerships in Europe while also holding responsibility for the global ...

Matthew Inada-Kim
National Clinical Lead Deterioration & Sepsis
NHS England & Improvement

Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in Acute Medicine at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, in Winchester, is a highly-regarded expert on sepsis. In his role as sepsis advisor, Dr Inada-Kim advises senior NHS leaders and works towards improving how the condition is treated across England. He also spends time educating clinicians, undertakes ...

Dr Nigel Acheson
Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals
Care Quality Commission

Nigel Acheson commenced his current role as deputy chief inspector of hospitals at the Care Quality Commission in October 2018 having spent 5 years as a regional medical director and higher level responsible officer in NHS England. Throughout his career Nigel has worked to improve patient safety and patient and public involvement in health ...

Claire Burnett
Lead Sepsis Nurse
Royal Berkshire Hospital

Claire, with a background in A&E medicine, has lead significant improvements in the recognition and early and targeted treatment of Sepsis at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, alongside a multidisciplinary team she has helped develop digital tools, and learning programmes that measurably improve care and outcomes.

Bala Balaguru
Chief Solutions Architect
Johnson & Johnson Medical

Bala is the Chief Solutions Architect at J&J Medical Devices; a new function designed to identify opportunities to leverage the diverse capabilities within Johnson & Johnson to build partnerships based on mutual value with UK and Irish customers. He has also developed and led the Care Advantage solution offering since its inception in ...

Ashley Flores
Nurse Consultant and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention & Control
Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Ashley Flores, MSc, BSc (Hons), RN, Dip Infection Control, is a Nurse Consultant and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. She initially graduated as BSc Psychology (Hons) at the University of Leeds before completing her nurse training in Glasgow in 1996. Ashley worked in a range of ...

Denise Chaffer
Director of Safety and Learning
NHS Resolution

Denise Chaffer is a registered nurse and midwife and currently holds the post of director of safety and learning for the NHS Resolution (formerly known as NHS Litigation Authority). She holds a master’s degree in management and social care, a first degree, plus a higher education teaching qualification and is currently in her fourth year ...

Maryanne Mariyaselvam
Clinical Research Fellow
Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Maryanne is Clinical Research Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn and the University of Cambridge. She is currently undertaking a Doctorate at the University of Cambridge relating to Patient Safety in the NHS and is specifically researching errors in healthcare and the use of engineered solutions to prevent never events or ...

Paul Hinchley
Clinical Services Manager
Philips Healthcare

With a background in Critical Care Nursing spanning over 25 years including Cardiothoracic, Paediatric and Burns specialties, I now lead the Clinical Teams in Connected Care at Philips in the UK Market. I have been working with Phillips for 7 years and remain passionate about ensuring Education and Clinical Services are delivered to the ...

Richard Hattam
Business Development Manager
Reveal Media

Richard Hattam has been working in the staff safety industry for over 10 years and oversaw some of the first ever body camera pilots in the NHS. He has guided many Mental Health and Acute Trusts through successful trial and evaluations of body worn video technology and is among the most knowledgeable about their use within the NHS.

Peter Walsh
Chief Executive, Action against Medical Accidents
& WHO Patients for Patient Safety Champion

Peter Walsh is Chief Executive of Action against Medical Accidents (‘AvMA’) - the UK charity for patient safety and justice. He joined in January 2003. Peter has extensive experience of work on patients’ rights, advocacy and health policy. Before joining AvMA he was Director of the Association of Community Health Councils for ...

Matthew Roberts
Advanced Wound Devices Marketing Director
Smith & Nephew

Mathew has worked at Smith+Nephew for over 10 years and is currently leading the development of the PICO and RENASYS Negative Pressure Wound Therapy business for Europe, Middle East and Africa. An expert in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy; he was instrumental in providing the data and evidence through NICE for the achievement of NICE Medtech ...

Catia Rodrigues
Surgical Site Infection Specialist
Mölnlycke Health Care

Catia is a qualified nurse with current NMC registration. After qualifying she worked as a custodial nurse and then as a ward nurse in surgical ward, continuous care and palliative care in Portugal. Catia moved to the UK in 2012 and initiated her career in theatres as a scrub nurse at Oxford University Hospitals and then went on to work at Kings ...

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