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  Murray Anderson-Wallace

  Murray Anderson-Wallace is the Executive Producer of PATIENTSTORIES and an experienced strategic communications advisor, media producer and researcher. He has extensive knowledge of the NHS both as a clinician, manager and external consultant working with quality and safety issues. He was a Special Advisor to Stephen Ramsden OBE in his role as National Director for Patient Safety First, the NHS campaign for patient safety improvement. Murray was then seconded part-time to work as Head of Strategy and Communications for the [...]

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  Clare Bowen

  Clare Bowen is a trainee accountant and mother of Bethany, Will and James, and widow of Richard. In 2006 Clare and Richard lost their beloved daughter Beth during a routine laproscopic spleenectomy.  Richard died suddenly shortly after the Coroners Inquest into Beth’s death. Since then Clare has spoken nationally about her family’s experience and continues to campaign for greater openness and transparency around error in healthcare and for a greater understanding of human factors in healthcare. Clare is a standing [...]

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  Mark Emerton

  Mark Emerton is an consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Senior Fellow at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. He joined the NHS Institute in March 2006 as clinical lead for the focus on hip and knee replacements with the Delivering Quality and Value team. He went on to join their Safer Care team, on the faculty of the Leading Improvement in Patient Safety (LIPS) programme. He was also a member of the core team [...]

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  Martin Bromiley

  Martin Bromiley is an airline pilot and Chair of the Clinical Human Factors Group.   In April 2005 his wife Elaine died as a direct result of clinical errors, during what was supposed to have been a routine operation. At that time Martin had over 10 years’ experience as an airline pilot, including time specialising as a ‘human factors trainer’. Culturally, he had seen much happen in his business to improve safety, where error is now accepted as something to be [...]

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  Phil Hammond

  Phil Hammond is a practising GP, writer, broadcaster and journalist. He has been a lecturer in medical communication at two UK universities (Birmingham and Bristol) and won awards for teaching, journalism, comedy and broadcasting.He presented six series of “Trust me, I’m a Doctor” for BBC2, wrote a best-selling book of the same name and co-wrote the BBC1 sitcom “Doctors and Nurses”. As a journalist, he broke the story of the Bristol heart scandal and gave evidence to the subsequent Public [...]

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  Jane Feinmann

  Jane Feinmann is an award-winning medical journalist, who writes regularly for both the consumer and professional press. She is also an experienced radio producer, her most recent productions being ‘Metaphor For Healing’ (Radio 4, October 28th and 29th, 2009) and ‘To Err is Human’ (Radio 4, August 11th, 2008 and May 29th, 2009). Jane has particular interest in ‘Cutting out Human Error’ (the title of an article she wrote published in the BMJ) and supports PATIENTSTORIES’ approach of provoking discussion [...]

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  Stephen Ramsden

  Stephen Ramden OBE is former Chief Executive of the Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and between 2008-10 was part-time National Director and subsequently Chair of Patient Safety First, the national campaign for patient safety improvement in England. Stephen has more than 34 years’ experience as an NHS Manager, 20 of which were in Chief Executive roles.  As an independent consultant he now works with a wide range of healthcare organisations. He has helped several NHS trusts with their [...]

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