Ruth O’Dowd
Biography
I have worked as a Consultant anaesthetist in North Cumbria for over 10 years. I spent about 5 years as Clinical Director for anaesthetics before moving to a Patient Safety CD role across the Surgical Division. I am proud to be part of Health Foundation Generation Q Cohort 9. I am particularly interested in driving forward sharing learning from incidents - and more particularly near misses across specialities and professions. I am committed to development of a culture of learning and not blame from incidents, and see a Human Factors based approach to investigation as the way forward and involvement, and that breaking down inter-professional barriers is part of this process.
Q Exchange ideas
Safety Culture Conversations Across Boundaries
We plan to use safety culture cards with all our teams across acute, community and social care to provide a common language and basis to build quality improvement projects across bourndaries.
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Areas of interest
- Collaboration and networking
- Integrated care
- Leadership
- Patient and public involvement
- Patient experience
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement
Groups
- Improving Improvement (Q Exchange project)
- Generation Q Fellows
- Building improvement capability across boundaries
- Organisational Resilience & Safety-II
- Anaesthetists
- Complexity Approaches to support Quality Improvement
