The QI Guy in Conversation with...

Welcome to the QI Guy in Conversation with. In this episode, I am chatting to Liv Evans. Liv is a Quality Improvement facilitator and is fairly new to the role, December 2022. We chat about how Liv came across QI, her journey into her current role, and what her current priorities are. Liv also shouts out for your help!

Welcome to the QI Guy in Conversation with...podcast. In this episode, I'm in conversation with Pete Vesey. Pete came late to Occupational Therapy and qualified in 2006. Following a couple of years on Band 5 rotations, Pete worked in vocational rehabilitation for 5 years and a further 5 years in community pain management. He has worked for Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust since 2011. For much of his OT career, he has worked in new and developing services or forward-thinking teams which encouraged my appetite for developing and improving services, processes, and care. Having reached a decision point in his career between developing in clinical specialism or service improvement Pete was successful in joining the new Quality Improvement Team at Dorset Healthcare in 2018.  Since August 2022 he has been working informally as QI Lead as part of the new Transformation Team.  Since June 2022, Pete has been working 1 day a week on a fixed-term contract for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists on a project focussing on enabling members to understand and embed sustainability in their actions and work with service users.

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Worlds collide on this episode of the podcast as The QI Guy gets to merge his two passions - QI and Heavy Metal!

I am in conversation with Daniel Winter- Bates currently head of organisational development at NHS Hampshire, Southampton, and Isle of Wight ICB/ICS. Daniel is the previous freedom-to-speak-up lead and ex-Service improvement manager within The NHS. Knowledgeable in QI, facilitation, and culture change delivery.

In this episode, I am in conversation with Claire Cox and Helen Hughes. 

Claire is an experienced nurse of over 25 years. She has worked in numerous specialties in the NHS and in different places around the world, from being a repatriation nurse to volunteering in refugee camps and striking up collaborations with nurses in America. More recently, Claire has worked as a Critical Care Outreach Sister since 2011, where her desire for patient safety was ignited.

After winning the Kent Surrey and Sussex Patient Safety Prize in 2016 for her work in cardiac arrest and medical emergency teams, Claire went on to complete the Darzi fellowship in April 2019. It was around this time that Claire began working with Patient Safety Learning.

In September 2020, Claire began an exciting new role as Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Manager for Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, then onto Kings College NHS Foundation NHS Trust as a Patient Safety Lead.

Helen is Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning, a charity and independent voice for patient safety. Her passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error.

Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held leadership roles in healthcare in the UK and the WHO, the National Patient Safety Agency, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission.

I am in conversation with Dr Tammy Watchorn. Following a career in scientific research, Tammy moved to working in the public sector and volunteering for the third sector on change, innovation, and transformation. Along the way Tammy has researched, tested, developed and implemented different processes, tools and methods for individual and team learning, leadership, creativity, innovation, collaboration, agile and user centred design. Tammy and I discuss some of these approaches including Lego Serious Play and neuroscience for change.

This episode sees me in conversation with Lou Waters. Lou is an experienced improver using the power of social media to connect and build networks across the globe. Lou and I discuss #QITwitter and the successful #QIHour tweet chat series.

Welcome to the QI Guy in Conversation with...In this episode, I'm in conversation with Prof. Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director for NHS Scotland.