Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning, England

Helen is Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning, a charity and independent voice for system wide change. It promotes patient safety and the reduction of avoidable harm through: policy, influencing and campaigning; developing and promoting ‘how to’ resources including shared learning, the hub is our free shared learning platform for patient safety and Organisational standards for patient safety using the evidence-based foundations in A Blueprint for Action.

Helen’s passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learning and taking action to reduce avoidable harm. Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held Executive leadership roles in healthcare in the UK and the WHO, the National Patient Safety Agency, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission. Helen has extensive experience as Chair and Trustee in social justice and health care delivery charities.