Director of Quality at Royal Free London FT; England

James Mountford is Director of Quality at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which has a multi-year programme focused on embedding improvement of quality and value into routine practice and ensuring improvement efforts address what matters to staff as well as patients and families.

James worked initially as an NHS doctor, then in consulting. From 2005-2007, he was a Commonwealth Fund/Health Foundation Harkness Fellow based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), both in Boston, USA. Before moving to the Royal Free, James was Director of Quality at UCL Partners, an academic health sciences partnership serving a population of 3 million in and around London.

He edited one of the first books published in UK on clinical leadership: Clinical leadership – Bridging the Divide (2006), and has written and presented widely on topics including improvement, value and clinical leadership.