Patient Safety Watch is delighted to announce the creation of an Advisory Board and its first members. The Board, made up of leading clinicians, campaigners and experts, will provide input into our research programme and general advice on making our work meaningful for medical professionals and patients alike.
The membership of the Advisory Board is as follows -
Professor Dame Clare Gerarda - former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Dame Sally Davies – former Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh – former Medical Director of the NHS
Sir Robert Francis QC – led the inquiry into Mid Staffs
Ann Clwyd – former Labour MP and patient safety campaigner
Sir Norman Lamb – former Lib Dem MP now Chair of SLAM
Jeeves Wijesuriya – former Chair of the BMA junior doctors committee
Helene Donnelly – nurse and mid staffs whistle blower
Dame Marianne Griffiths - Chief Executive of Western Sussex Hospitals
Patient Safety Watch Trustee Jeremy Hunt said:
“This is a stellar line up of experts covering so many different aspects of patient safety. I’m incredibly grateful to all of them for getting involved and helping us as we look to find ways to measure and reduce avoidable harm in healthcare.”
Notes to Editors
These positions are voluntary and unpaid roles.