Caroline Maries-Tillott: Quality Improvement Lead, Walsall Healthcare trust BSc(Hons); MSc, RGN
 
 
 
Caroline is a Quality Improvement Lead for Walsall Healthcare trust co-ordinating a Borough wide Quality Improvement project to reduce avoidable harm. She qualified with a combined RGN & Nursing degree and also completed a Masters in HealthCare Policy and organisation.
 
She has led (or worked on) a range of clinically focussed Quality Improvement (QI) projects at strategic and operational level. These include sepsis and deterioration; omitted and delayed medication and reducing avoidable harm. She has received regional and national recognition relating to a number of Quality Improvement activities.
 
Caroline is an experienced QI facilitator and has experience in staff engagement, human factors and redesign using innovative IT solutions to improve the quality and safety for patients in both acute and community settings.  She is currently the lead for the SPACE project (Safer Provision and Care Excellence in Nursing Homes) a project funded by the West Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative WMAHSN.
 
Caroline is committed to building QI capacity and capability with in the Health service and is visiting lecturer for Birmingham Community trust and Keele University.