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Katherine Edwards – Director of Patient Safety & Clinical Improvement

Katherine Edwards is the Director of Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement at the Oxford Patient Safety Collaborative, and part of the senior team of the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford AHSN). She leads a large number of quality improvement projects spanning the Thames Valley region, and contributes to a number of national patient safety […]

Categories: Oversight group Core team

Geri Briggs – Senior Programme Manager – Patient Safety

Geri is a highly experienced therapeutic radiographer with a clinical career of over 30 years in Radiotherapy service delivery and quality management, and involvement in national initiatives to improve patient safety in the radiotherapy field. Her previous improvement work at Oxford PSC has involved pressure damage, specialised paediatric care in the home and safety culture. […]

Categories: Core team Respiratory Medicines safety

Eileen Dudley – Senior Programme Manager – Patient Safety

Eileen leads on the Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme and continues to practise clinically as a midwife. Eileen has held various NHS positions including operational, supervision and quality improvement roles. She is project lead for the award-winning intelligent intermittent auscultation in labour programme.

Categories: Maternity and Neonatal Core team

Fran Butler – Senior Programme Manager, Mental Health

Fran leads the Oxford AHSN/Patient Safety Collaborative mental health programme. She has worked in a variety of roles within the NHS including in public health, as GP practice manager and, most recently as Dementia Network Manager for the Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford AHSN). In this latter role Fran has managed a number of […]

Categories: Mental health Core team

Hayley Trueman – Mental Health Improvement Project Manager

Hayley joined the Oxford AHSN in 2021. She is a mental health nurse and had experience working in acute inpatient care and treatment-resistant depression before becoming a safety and quality improvement lead across mental health and community health services. Hayley is a graduate of the Oxford AHSN Masters programme in partnership with the University of Oxford.

Categories: Mental health Core team

Nigel Sims – Patient Safety Improvement Manager

Nigel joined the Oxford AHSN in 2021. He has 25 years’ experience in the public sector, working in health and wellbeing roles, designing and implementing service improvements. He has an MBA qualification and has held a number of senior roles working alongside and within the NHS on wellbeing and deprivation projects. Throughout his career Nigel […]

Categories: Mental health Core team

Steve McManus – Chair of Oversight Group

Steve is Chief Executive of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, a post he has held since January 2017. He began his career in the NHS in 1987 as a registered nurse.  He completed his BA Hons in healthcare studies at Oxford Brookes University followed by a postgraduate certificate in evidence based healthcare from Oxford […]

Categories: Oversight group

Julie Hewish

Julie joined the Oxford AHSN as a Senior Programme Manager for the National Transforming Wound Care Programme in 2022. Julie is a tissue viability (TV) nurse with 12 years’ experience within acute, primary care and community services. Her expertise lies within practice-based service improvement, formulary/medical device innovation, education and competency frameworks, complex wound management. Julie […]

Categories: Wound care

Mr Lawrence Impey

Lawrence Impey is a Consultant in Obstetrics and the Lead for Fetal Medicine at Oxford University Hospitals.​ ​He is the Clinical Lead for the Oxford AHSN Maternity & Neonatal Network. He is interested in patient safety in maternity care, primarily through the development of safe and equitable systems. He has published widely on breech birth, […]

Categories: Maternity and Neonatal Programme lead

Alison Provins – Lay Partner

Alison has a background in financial services specialising in customer experience, staff development and change management. She now uses this experience to help a wide range of organisations to improve. Alison is a lay representative for Health Education England and a member of the Pharmacy Executive Stakeholder Group at the University of Reading. Her Oxford AHSN […]

Categories: Oversight group

Alice Roberts – Executive Assistant

Alice joined the Oxford AHSN in July 2019. She has more than ten years’ experience as an executive assistant working at board and director level in the NHS, higher education and publishing. Alice is Executive Assistant to the Director of Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement (Katherine Edwards), and Project Support Officer.

Categories: Core team
Alice Roberts

Rebecca Monk – Mental Health Improvement Project Manager

Rebecca joined the Oxford AHSN in August 2022. She has over ten years’ experience in mental health and talking therapies services.  She is a psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) with a keen interest in improving patient outcomes. Rebecca has worked in primary care on depression and anxiety, progressing to clinical leadership roles.

Categories: Mental health