National Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Improvement Cymru, Public Health Wales; Wales

Prof John Boulton is National Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of Improvement Cymru at Public Health Wales. He has extensive experience in the field of Quality Improvement, and 2012 he was awarded a Quality Improvement fellowship at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, sponsored by the Health Foundation. This enabled him to develop a deep understanding of Improvement science as well as observing how to achieve improvement at scale.

Dr Boulton has presented extensively on Quality Improvement and mathematical modelling. He is currently European faculty for the IHI’s Improvement Coach Professional Development programme. Additionally, in 2018 he became an honorary professor at the University of Swansea.