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Hesham Abdalla

Consultant Paediatrician and Head of Quality Improvement

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Biography

Hesham is a consultant paediatrician and Head of Quality Improvement in his NHS Trust, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

He has won national awards in patient-centred care (PENNA) and patient safety (HSJ) and is a senior lecturer at Keele University in healthcare improvement and patient safety.

His project to develop Hexitime, the Healthcare Skill Exchange Timebank won support from Q members at the Q Exchange 2018 and has subsequently won an international innovation award- see blog below.

He is a board member of the Q Community and trustee of the Point of Care Foundation, whose mission is to humanise healthcare.


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Blog posts

  • Fresh thinking on confronting the challenging side of improvement

    We struggle in health care to confront what happens in improvement when things don’t go as planned. Words like 'failure' fill us with fear even though we know that improvement is as much about challenges as successes. Hesham Abdalla shares some new ways of looking at these challenges.

  • Creating Chains of Kindness

    In celebration of World Kindness Day, Hesham Abdallah shares a story about how giving one hour of time to a timebank can be the start of an endless chain of collective kindness and support across our network of health and social care professionals

  • Supporting your BAME colleagues in the workplace

    Q member, Hesham Abdalla, discusses the light shone by COVID-19 on inequalities within health and care, and Hexitime’s new campaign to support BAME health care staff.

  • Hexitime – The Healthcare Skill Exchange and Timebank

    Hesham Abdalla, Consultant Paediatician Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management and Leadership, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, introduces Hexitime, the new skills exchange for Q members.


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