Mirek Skrypak


NHS North East London Foundation Trust, England


NHS North East London Foundation Trust, England


Mirek is currently the Director of Quality Improvement at NELFT. Previously he led a portfolio of national projects from the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. He has also led patient safety, cardiovascular disease prevention and stroke improvement programmes and breakthrough series collaboratives at Academic Health Science Network and Stroke Network organisations. His professional background is as an occupational therapist with clinical rehabilitation and management experience, having worked across hospital and community stroke, neurology and elderly settings in Australia and England. His interests are in collaborative approaches through meaningful partnerships to embedding innovation, continuous quality improvement, involving patients in service redesign, and leadership of teams in healthcare particularly the application of learning from elite sporting teams and athletes (which he has lived experience of when he was somewhat younger).