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John Dean

Deputy Medical Director (Transformation) Clinical Director for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Royal College of Physicians

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Biography

John has extensive experience in service redesign and quality improvement. He is Deputy Medical Director (Transformation) at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, where he works across the health economy leading service improvement. He has been Clinical Director for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at  Royal College of Physicians since 2017. He has been Divisional Director and Chief of Medicine at the Trust where he has worked since 2012, initially sharing the role of Associate Medical Director with Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. As Consultant Physician in Bolton from 1994 he led the development and delivery of integrated diabetes care. He was Clinical Director for Medicine at Bolton Hospitals 1997-2000. In 2005/6 he spent 12 months at Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Harvard University, Boston, USA studying Quality Improvement and Integrated care. As Medical Director of NHS Bolton from 2006-2011 he led clinical quality and service redesign resulting in more integrated care delivery in a number of specialities, and a programme of continuous improvement based on IHI’s Triple Aim. He has worked more widely on Long Term Conditions and Quality Improvement making significant contributions to Year of Care (DoH), Teams without Walls (Royal Colleges), Healthier Horizons and Joined up Care for people with Long Term Conditions (NHS North West), Triple Aim (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and Safer Clinical Systems (Health Foundation). He has played a major role in the development of Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) as Clinical lead, faculty and Non Executive Board member.


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