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+ ...

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 ...

Michael Lynskey
Senior Business Unit Director, Advanced Wound Management UK, Ireland & Nordics
Smith & Nephew

Matthew Inada-Kim
National Clinical Lead for Deterioration at NHS Improvement & National Clinical Advisor, Sepsis
NHS England

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 is currently Regional Medical Director and Higher Level Responsible Officer for the South Region of NHS England. He trained in Birmingham and was appointed as a consultant gynaecological oncologist in 2002, moving to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter to help develop the gynaecological cancer centre. As a national ...

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Calla Technology

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Becton, Dickinson Diagnostics

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Ethicon

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Virginia Mason Institute

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 ...

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Venner Medical International

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