Co-Director of the Right Care Workstream

QIPP

Related Video: Professor Sir Muir Gray CBE

Sir Muir Gray has worked in the Public Health Service in England since 1972.  He has carried out a number of tasks in that time, for example the development of the National Screening Committee. 

Currently he is working half time for the NHS as Co-Director of the QIPP Right Care Workstream.  The other half of his life he is developing Better Value Healthcare, whose mission is to publish handbooks and development programmes designed to get more value from health care resources in England, and worldwide.

Sir Muir is also a Director of the National Campaign for Walking, a small charity dedicated to promoting walking as the only type of activity relevant to tens of millions people.

He is married with two daughters and lives in Oxford.

• http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk
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Professor of Medicine, Director of Biomedical Research Institute

University of Dundee

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Andrew Morris is the Professor of Medicine and Director of the Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Dundee.  He leads a translational research team that uses informatics to study the epidemiological and molecular aetiological basis of diabetes and its complications.  He also has a major interest in the use of eHealth to support quality improvement and inter-disciplinary patient care across geographical boundaries.

He was awarded the RD Lawrence Award by Diabetes UK in 2003, the Saltire Society Scottish Science Award in 2005 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy of science and letters, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.  He was appointed by the Minister for Health and Community Care to be Lead Clinician for diabetes in Scotland (2002-2006) and led a national programme of quality improvement in diabetes care.  He is a Governor of the Health Foundation. Since 2010 has been Convener of the Scottish Academic Health Science Collaboration.

National Director for Improvement and Efficiency

Department of Health

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Presently the National Director for Improvement and Efficiency at the Department of Health, Jim has been an executive in the UK National Health Service for over 20 years. Working with the NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson, he is leading the drive over £15 billion major efficiency savings whilst improving the quality of services for the 51 million people in England.

NHS Writer, Broadcaster, and Commentator

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Roy Lilley is an established, independent health policy analyst, writer, broadcaster and commentator on health and social issues. Previously, a Visiting Fellow at the Management School, Imperial College London. Formerly at the Centre for Health Services Management at the University of Nottingham. He also provides consultancy to NHS organisations and the companies that have services and products for the health service.

He was the vice-chairman of West Surrey and North East Hampshire Health Authority and formerly a member of Surrey Heath Borough Council holding the position of Mayor in 1988/89.  Between 1991 and 1995, Roy was the chairman of the Homewood NHS Trust, Chertsey Surrey, a first wave Trust with responsibility for People with a Learning Disability and Mental Health problems.  Homewood is the only health provider in the world to have achieved British Standard 5750 for the whole of its services and the first NHS Trust to have achieved the coveted Investors in People Award for the whole of its human resource and training policies.  It was the only NHS establishment to have a ‘no-strike’ deal with its staff.

A founder member of the NHS Trust Federation, Roy held the positions of Chairman of the Supplies and Purchasing Standing Committee and Chairmanship of the Standing Committee on HR Issues. He has been a member of the NHS Steering Group on women’s issues and a member of the NHS Training Executive’s Group on training Boards and Non-Executive Directors. He was appointed a Trustee of the Patient Choice initiative and voted the top UK speaker in the Partnerships for Healthcare speaker survey. He has been a guest speaker on management and related subjects at the Civil Service College, Sunningdale. He is a Freeman of the City of London, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Programme Manager

The Health Foundation

Fiona Martin is a Programme Manager at the Health Foundation, and has worked on many of the Health Foundation’s major improvement programmes including Co-creating Health, Closing the Gap and Shine. She has worked very closely with the 18 Shine 2010 projects.

• http://www.health.org.uk/areas-of-work/programmes/shine-ten/

Consultant in Critical Care & Anaesthesia

Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital NHS Trust

Arpan is an award winning consultant in Critical Care & Anaesthesia at Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust and former founder Director of the Cheshire & Merseyside Regional Patient Simulation Centre.  In addition, he is also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medical Education, University of Liverpool and the Lead for Simulation Education in Mersey Deanery.

Arpan is interested in promoting health care safety by focussing on the human elements and the human factors that often lead to adverse conditions in health care.

He is an accredited Team Resource Management trainer, and uses this to facilitate team management.

His current research interests include leadership and team working in hospital teams, and the study of human factors in drug errors.

Director of Large Scale Change

NHS

Alison is Director of Large Scale Change for the NHS and is jointly responsible for a programme to encourage innovation and build expertise and capacity amongst senior NHS professionals to effectively tackle the most challenging public health issues.

On behalf of North West Employers, Alison is currently coaching several Local Authority CEO’s to use a large scale change approach to reduce alcohol related public sector costs by 5% in three years.

She is also co-Director of Drink Wise North West, which provides an independent voice for people who want to end alcohol harm and supports the public sector to change behaviour and challenge cultural attitudes to alcohol.

Most recently, Alison was Regional Alcohol Manager for the Department of Health’s national alcohol improvement programme, which was set up to introduced to support the NHS to reduce alcohol related hospital admissions. She was responsible for a £1.6 million change programme to support Primary Care Trusts to ‘go further, faster” in reducing alcohol harm and she managed relationships with 80 NHS organisations in the North West on behalf of the Department of Health. Alison also worked across Government Office departments to co-ordinate all public sector alcohol policy in the North West.

Chief Executive Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus

In July 2010 Graham was appointed to the joint post of Chief Executive of Blackburn with Darwen Council and NHS Teaching Care Trust Plus Graham Burgess has been chief executive of Blackburn with Darwen Council since October 2006. Graham joined the authority in 1998 as executive director (regeneration & technical).

Before this he worked at Liverpool City Council as assistant director social services. Graham chairs Pennine Lancashire Chief Executives (PLACE) group which was instrumental in achieving the Pennine Lancashire MAA.  He plays a key role across the county, including co-ordinating counter terrorism initiatives and chairing the newly established Lancashire CONTEST Board with the support of Lancashire Constabulary. 

Blackburn with Darwen council has recently received 4 star CPA for the 8th time, and one of only 17 local authorities in the country to consistenly receive the 4 start rating.  This is an important recognition of the high quality of council leadership and services. 

Primary Care IT lead and Map of Medicine

NHS

Dr Amir Hannan is a full-time general practitioner in Hyde, UK. Developing a “Partnership of Trust” between patient and clinician, he has enabled over 14% of his patients (more than 1,500 citizens) to access their GP electronic health record on-line, helping them to self care and become eMPOWERed.

Presently he is the Primary Care IT lead and Map of Medicine clinical lead for NHS North-West and a member of the Health Informatics Clinical Advisory Team (www.northwest.nhs.uk/HICAT). He is a member of the Clinical Leaders Network and an editorial board member for the Journal of Communication in Healthcare. He has set up an innovative health 2.0 website for his practice, www.htmc.co.uk putting patients, managers and clinicians at the heart of healthcare, giving them “control” and enabling “Real-time Digital Medicine”.

Programme Lead for Provider productivity

NHS

Helen is currently on secondment to AQuA (Advancing Quality Alliance) an NHS membership organisation in the North West, as a Programme Lead for Provider productivity. Helen has extensive experience in the NHS, industry and voluntary sector as a physiotherapist and in managing community services, including membership of the Professional Executive Committee, prior to joining the NHS Institute where she has worked as part of the High Volume Care pathways team and Innovation Practice.

Helen led on the experience based design approach, the Innovation Practitioner Programme and the Innovation Challenge Prizes for the NHS institute as well as working with the Innovation Practice Team to develop and explore the application of novel processes, tools and techniques for the NHS.  Helen completed an MSc in Continuing Professional Development (Health) at the University of Greenwich in 2005. Helen is a trustee at a local hospice, leading on the implementation of strategy and workforce planning and development.

• http://www.advancingqualityalliance.nhs.uk/