Consultant Paediatrician; University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, England

Kate Pryde is a Consultant Paediatrician at University Hospital Southampton and the trust’s Clinical Director for Improvement and Clinical Effectiveness. Kate is a member of the founding cohort of Health Foundation ‘Q’’s and actively involved in the RCPCH’s quality improvement and patient safety work as well as Health Education England Wessex’s lead for Quality Improvement in Child Health. Kate is committed to continuously improving quality of care through embedding key principles into everyday practice and empowering staff to see this as an essential part of their role. Her skills, dedication, and infectious enthusiasm, with a focus on kindness and positive deviance have led to her involvement in a range of successful initiatives to improve quality and safety in healthcare – from small, targeted improvements through to large-scale system change across organisations. She is passionate about developing safer systems particularly through education and involving patients and their families in providing the highest quality care.