Who we are

Our partners, governance and engagement

The HIEC Patient Safety work is informed and governed by the Patient Safety Steering Group.  The group meets bi-monthly to discuss, plan and agree the Patient Safety work. Its members are:

  • John Wright (Chair), Director, BIHR, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
  • Gerry Armitage, Senior Research, BIHR, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
  • John Bibby, GP, Deputy Medical Director- NHS Bradford & Airedale, & Peaks Partnership
  • Alison Cracknell, Specialist Registrar (Elderly Care), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Medical Educator, University of Leeds
  • Ray Cuschieri, Assistant Dean of the Yorkshire Deanery/Deputy Medical Director, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • David Eadington, Deputy Postgraduate Dean
  • Dawn Lawson, Managing Director, HIEC Yorkshire & Humber
  • Rebecca Lawton, Senior Lecturer, BIHR, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
  • Rachel O’Hara , Lecturer in Public Health, University of Sheffield
  • Mark Purvis, GP and Dean for General Practitioners, Y&H Postgraduate Deanery
  • Beverley Slater, Assistant Director – Patient Safety, HIEC
  • Natalie Taylor, HIEC Project Manager
  • Karen Warner, Patient Safety Manager, Yorkshire Ambulance Service
  • Ian Watt, Professor Primary and Community Care, University of York and GP

 Meet the team

The HIEC patient safety team is based at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Bradford Royal infirmary site.  The team are:

Rebecca Lawton is Co-Director for the HIEC patient safety theme.

Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds. In In 2009, she took up a secondment at Bradford Institute of Health Research where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, innovation managers and administrative staff to deliver on research, evaluation and innovation/implementation projects on patient safety.

Rebecca’s research interests span health psychology and human factors.

E:mail: [email protected]

 

Beverley Slater is Assistant Director for the HIEC patient safety theme.

 

Beverley is an expert in health service improvement, theory and practice. She has more than 10 years’ experience of promoting and delivering improvement within and between health service organisations.

Beverley’s current role as Assistant Director of the patient safety theme for the Yorkshire and Humber Health Innovation and Education Cluster focuses on accelerating the uptake of innovation in the area of patient safety.  She was part of the team of experts that developed the Training and Action for Patient Safety (TAPS) programme currently being rolled-out in health communities across Yorkshire and Humber.

Email: [email protected]

Dr John Wright is Director, Bradford Institute for Health Research at Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.

John Wright is a clinical epidemiologist with a background in hospital medicine and public health in the UK and in Africa. He has been working in Bradford since 1996 where he has developed applied health services research with particular interests in patient safety, clinical effectiveness and translation of research into practice. He is the author of over 100 peer review papers and three textbooks and leads two NIHR programmes – on patient safety research and child health – and a CLAHRC programme. He is the director and principal investigator of the Born in Bradford cohort study which is following the lives and well being of over 10,000 children in the city. He is Visiting Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Universities of York, Leeds and Bradford.

E:mail [email protected]

Natalie Taylor is HIEC project manager for the patient safety theme

Natalie completed her PhD in the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds in 2010, and has been working as a HIEC Project Manager at Bradford Institute for Health Research since March 2011. She leads a small multi-disciplinary team to help NHS organisations improve patient safety practice using behaviour change methods. Natalie is also leading the development of an intervention to prevent childhood obesity in Bradford, as part of the BIB 1000 project.

 

E:mail [email protected]

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