Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Director of 1000 Lives Improvement Service, Public Health Wales

Aidan Fowler is the Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of the 1000 Lives Improvement Service for NHS Wales. Aidan was a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Gloucestershire
for ten years before entering the NHS Leadership Academy Fast Track Executive Training Programme during which he worked as an executive at University Hospitals Bristol and subsequently worked as
a Medical Director in Worcestershire.

Aidan trained as an Improvement Adviser(IA) with the IHI in Boston and was IA to the South West Safer Patient Programme and has worked on Patient Safety with WEAHSN. He currently works as faculty with the IHI particularly in the peri-operative safety domain in Qatar and Portugal. He also trained in change management with the old NHS Institute. Aidan’s surgical training was in the South West but he graduated from University College London.