Consultant Ophthalmologist and Medical Retina Specialist; University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, England

Christina Rennie is a Consultant Ophthalmologist and medical retina specialist at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. In this role she has worked with patients, local charities, and the county council sensory services to improve support for patients living with sight loss. She is also a patient safety specialist, a designated senior leadership role for providing expert support for patient safety across the organisation. This role sees her playing a key part in the development of patient safety culture, safety systems and improvement activity across the trust. In the last year she has focused on introducing human factors training, involving patients as patient safety partners, and introducing the new patient safety incident investigation process. A key part of this is developing the just and learning culture and working closely with the quality improvement, organisational development and patient experience teams. She regularly teaches on patient safety and leadership for safety, a key part of which is building psychological safety in teams.