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Our people: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley Directors and Board members are listed first. Scroll down or click through to the next pages for other members of our team. Alternatively, you can refine your search by using the specialties listed below.

Katherine Edwards

Katherine leads on Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement, running a large number of quality improvement projects across the region, and contributing to national patient safety programmes. Katherine has over 20 years’ experience working in the NHS and healthcare, starting her career in midwifery and progressing through clinical management of wards and departments. She moved into […]

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Steve McManus

Steve is Chief Executive of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, a role he has held since January 2017. Steve’s NHS career dates back 35 years and includes both clinical and managerial responsibilities. He began training as a nurse in 1987 and has gone on to hold a number of senior roles. He chairs the […]

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement Oxford HIN Board

Eileen Dudley

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.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Matt Williams

Matt is the Senior Programme Manager for Mental Health with a particular interest in digital therapeutics. He has over 25 years’ experience working within the mental health, education and voluntary sectors. Matt leads the Oxford HIN First episode and Rapid Early intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) programme and was previously the Oxford HIN Digital Health […]

Specialties: Clinical Innovation Adoption Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement Mental Health

Alice Dean

Alice joined in July 2019. She has more than ten year’s experience as an executive assistant working at board and director level in the NHS, higher education and publishing.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Ania Scigala-Ali

Ania joined the Patient Safety team in October 2024. She has a background in clinical and organisational psychology, research and quality improvement. She is an International Coaching Federation-accredited coach and project manager. Ania has held various front-facing and leadership roles within the NHS and third sector. She is particularly interested in co-design, culture and behaviour […]

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement

Hayley Trueman

Hayley joined in 2021. She is a mental health nurse with experience 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.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement Mental Health

Rebecca Monk

Rebecca joined 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.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement Mental Health

Jonathan Vollam

Jon is the senior programme manager for deterioration within the patient safety team. He has 30 years’ experience in healthcare spanning Royal Air Force, Defence Medical Services, and the NHS.  An intensive care nurse by background, Jon’s professional interests include patient safety, transfer medicine, and human factors.

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement
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Nigel Sims

Nigel joined 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 has been passionate […]

Specialties: Patient Safety and Clinical Improvement Mental Health