NHS England; England

Aidan Fowler is the National Director of Patient Safety in England and a DCMO at DHSC. He was previously the Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of the 1000 Lives Improvement Service for NHS Wales. He had responsibility for QI/PS across the Welsh NHS and was a board member of Public Health Wales. Aidan was a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Gloucestershire for ten years and Chief of Service for Surgery for four 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 briefly as a Medical Director in Mental Health and Community care 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 has also worked as faculty with the IHI in the peri-operative safety domain in Qatar, infection reduction in Portugal and teaching improvement and safety in the UK and internationally. Aidan’s surgical training was in the South West but he graduated in medicine from University College London.

Patient Editor, BMJ; England

Emma Doble is a patient editor at the BMJ where she manages the ‘What your patient is thinking’ series. Since joining the BMJ in 2018, Emma has been involved in developing the patient voice within the journal, particularly within education. She has also been named as one of Cochrane’s 30 under 30 for her work in patient and public involvement. Emma is also a Health Psychology PhD candidate at the Lee Kong Chian medical school in Singapore. Her research focuses on co-design and patient involvement with dialysis patients.

Inspector at the Dutch Health and Youth Care Inspectorate, Professor at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam; The Netherlands

Ian Leistikow is an inspector and advisor at the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam where he does research on governmental regulation of healthcare quality. He is a non-practicing physician. He was the coordinator of the patient safety program within the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 2003 to 2011. He has set up various patient safety related trainings, has published multiple articles about patient safety and co-authored a Dutch book on Root Cause Analysis. In 2010 he published his PhD thesis on how the Board of Directors can lead patient safety improvements. Since 2011, Ian works at the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate. There his tasks have included judging the quality of sentinel event analysis reports from hospitals and coordinating the Dutch national set of quality indicators for hospitals. In 2011 Ian became a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. In 2017 CRC Press published his book “Prevention is better than cure”, on learning from adverse events in healthcare.