Senior Improvement Advisor, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom

Dr Poonam Gupta currently serves as Senior Improvement Advisor and Value Improvement Lead at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK. With a background in medicine, she has built her work around advancing healthcare quality and value-based care in diverse settings. At Oxleas, she led NHS England’s first value improvement initiative with the frailty team as a pilot, achieving outstanding results. This work has since expanded to include teams from prison healthcare and the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Team.

Previously, Dr. Gupta was the Program Director for Value Improvement at the Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar, where she led impactful, system-wide transformation. She has experience leading large-scale improvement collaboratives and served as lead faculty for the national Efficiency Improvement Collaborative with the Centre for National Health Insurance in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
She is also a faculty member with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and served on the leadership team for the Scaling Up Quality Improvement Training initiative across 38 district hospitals in Bihar, India, focused on improving maternal and newborn health outcomes.

Dr. Gupta also serves as a Healthcare Quality Improvement Faculty at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.

She has contributed to healthcare improvement efforts across the UK, the Middle East, and India. Dr. Gupta is the Assistant Deputy Editor of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care (IJQHC), an ISQua journal, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications. She has received more than 15 awards for her work in patient safety and quality improvement and is a regular speaker at national and international forums.