Edited by Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Jane Runnacles, Consultant Paediatrician, St Georges University Hospital NHS Trust, Anita Jayadev, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Wexham Park Foundation NHS Trust, John Brennan, General Practitioner, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Faculty, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, and John Fitzsimons, Consultant Paediatrician, Temple Street Childrens Hospital, Dublin
Peter Lachman M.D. MPH. M.B.B.Ch., FRCPCH, FCP (SA), FRCPI is Lead Faculty Quality Improvement at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in Dublin, where he directs the Leadership and Quality programme to develop clinical leaders in quality improvement. He is co-founder and Chairperson of PIPSQC, the Paediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Community. He was Chief Executive Officer of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from 1st May 2016 to 30th April 2021. Dr Lachman was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at IHI in 2005-2006 and developed the safety programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital where he was the Deputy Medical Director with the lead for Patient Safety. He was also a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal Free Hospital in London specialising in the challenge of long term conditions for children.
Dr. Anita Jayadev qualified from St. Bartholomews School of Medicine and Dentistry in London in 2005 and works as a respiratory consultant with an interest in sleep medicine. She has led several projects and developed new services to improve patient safety and care. Her achievements were recognised by the HSJ and she was awarded 'Rising Star in the NHS award' during her training and won the BMJ patient safety team of the year award during her Darzi Fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She continues to work as the clinical Quality Improvement lead at Wexham Park Hospital and is the Trust Sepsis lead.
Dr. John Brennan is a General Practitioner and was awarded a Diploma in Quality Improvement in Healthcare and Patient Safety with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) in 2017. He served as Quality Improvement Scholar in Residence with the RCPI and the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) in 2016/17. As well as being an ISQua Fellow and Board Member, John currently works with the RCPI in designing and delivering Quality Improvement and Patient Safety education across a number of platforms, including in collaboration with the Health Service Executive. He is lead QI Faculty for the National COPD Improvement Collaborative in Ireland.
Dr. John Fitzsimons is a Paediatrician at Children's University Hospital, Temple St and Clinical Director with the Health Service Executive's (HSE) National Quality Improvement Team. He graduated from University College Dublin in 1996. He trained as a Patient Safety Officer with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and was a fellow of the Improvement Faculty at the NHS Institute for Improvement & Innovation before returning to work in Ireland in 2010. He is course co-director of the Quality Improvement and Leadership Programme which has been run in partnership between the HSE and the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI) since 2011.
Dr Jane Runnacles MBBS MA MRCPCH PGcert (healthcare leadership). Jane is a Consultant in Ambulatory Paediatrics at St George's hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and clinical governance lead for her department. She has an interest in acute paediatrics, simulation and quality improvement (QI). During her postgraduate training in London, she was awarded distinction in her MA in clinical education and spent a year as a Darzi clinical leadership fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Jane is a Training Programme Director for the London School of Paediatrics and leads their leadership and QI education programmes.
Peter Lachman, Lead Faculty Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
John Fitzsimons, Consultant Paediatrician Intensive Care, Childrens Hospital Ireland Temple Street and National Clincal Director Quality Improvement Health Services Executive
Jane Runnacles, Consultant Paediatrician, St Georges University Hospital NHS Trust
Anita Jayadev, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Wexham Park Foundation NHS Trust
John Brennan, General Practitioner, Faculty on Quality Improvement Programme, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Ahmeda Ali, General practitioner and Assistant Scheme Director of Irish College of General Practitioners
Blair L. Sadler, JD, Senior fellow, ?Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, MA, USA
Eugene Nelson, Professor, The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA
Sibylle Erdmann, Patient Leader, Founding Member Q, Health Foundation, London, UK
Margaret Murphy, External Lead Advisor, WHO Patients for Patient Safety, Cork, Ireland
James F O'Mahony, Health Economist, Centre for Health Policy & Management, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Patricia O'Connor, Honorary Professor, University of Stirling, Faculty of Healthcare Sciences and Sport, Stirling, Scotland.
David Crosby, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, The National Maternity Hospital, Holes Street, Dublin, Ireland
Eoin Fitzgerald, Registrar in Paediatrics, Children Hospital Ireland, Dublin, Faculty on Quality Improvement Programe, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Sue Hignett, Professor of Healthcare, Ergonomics & Patient Safety, Athena SWAN School Champion, Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, UK
Thomas Jun, Reader in Socio-technical System Design, Loughborough University, Loughborough University, UK
Uma Kotagal, Emeritus Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre
Kate Churruca, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Robyn Clay-Williams, Associate Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University Sydney Australia
Janet C Long, Senior Research Fellow at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Louise A Ellis, Research Fellow, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jeffrey Braithwaite, Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director, Scottish Government
Thomas Lamont, Clinical Research Fellow/ Honorary Specialty Registrar in Restorative Dentistry at University of Dundee, Clinical Advisor, Scottish Government
Adrian Plunkett, Consultant Paediatrician, Intensive Care, Birmingham Childrens Hospital
Kevin Stewart, Medical Director, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, London, UK
Rachel Pool, Intelligence Analyst, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, London UK. (Currently COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Safety Analyst at NHS England)
Mark O'Brien, Associate Fellow and Programme Director, Oxford Healthcare Leadership Programme, Said Business School, Oxford University
Pallavi Bradshaw, Medicolegal Lead, Risk Prevention Medical Protection Society
Kris Vanhaecht, Professor, KU Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, Leuven, Belgium.
Christopher Cornue, Founder & President, sláinte global partners (sgp)
Frank Frederico, Vice President and Senior Patient Safety Expert at Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Boston, MA, USA
James Hoffman, Chief Patient Safety Officer, St Judes, Childrens Research Hospital Officer, Memphis, TN, USA
Kristen Hughes, Clinical Pharmacist, Medication Safety and Informatics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
Rob Cunney, Consultant Microbiologist, Children Hospital Irelnd, Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland
Karen Britton, Lead Nurse Deteriorating patient, Resuscitation and Outreach at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Shefal Patel, Acute medical consultant, Wexham Park Hospital
Trish Woodhead, Associate Clinical Director for Patient Safety at West of England Academic Health Science Network and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, University of Bath
Gail Nielsen, Fellow and Faculty, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Damian Roland, Consultant & Honorary Associate Professor in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at University Hospital of Leicester NHS Trust
Jay Banerjee, Consultant in Emergency Medicine University Hospitals of Leicester, NHS Trust
Sean Harding, Consultant Nurse Acute Care and Trust Lead for Advanced Clinical Practice at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Rob Bethune, Consultant General and Colo-Rectal Surgeon Exeter Nuffield Hospital NHS Trust
Daniel Hayes, Senior Reserch Fellow, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London, UK
Kevin Rooney, Clinical Director of Critical Care, Clyde Sector at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Consultant in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Scotland
Suying Ong, Anaesthetics Registrar Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, Scotland
Kirstyn James, Consultant Geriatrician, Cork University Hospital, Faculty on Quality Improvement Programme Faculty, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Kieran Murray, Consultant Physician, Rheumatology, Limerick University Hospital, Limerick, Ireland
Michael Marx, Professor for International Public Health, Institute of Public Health, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Kevin O'Hare, Consultant Histopathologist, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Riccardo Tartaglia, Professor Risk management University G. Marconi, Italy and Italian Network for Safety in Health Care, Florence, Italy
Michaela Laregina, Clinical Risk Management La Spezia Public Hospital, Italy, and Italian Network for Safety in Health Care, Florence, Italy
Susanne O'Reilly, Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Vincent's University hospital, Dublin, Ireland
