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Andrew Corbett-Nolan
Country
United Kingdom
Job title
Chief Executive
Organisation
Health and Social Care Quality Centre (HSCQC)
Email address
Website
Biography
Andrew Corbett-Nolan has worked in healthcare quality for more than fifteen years. He joined the NHS in 1987 and worked in strategic planning before starting work to develop regional and later national standards for clinical services. He set up and was the first Director of the NHS accreditation unit, Health Services Accreditation. From there he moved to the King’s Fund as the Director of Development of their Health Quality Service. In 1999 he set up what has now become the HSCQC. The Centre works with local, national and international organisations, supporting the development of service improvement and the clinical governance agenda. These have included the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Health Improvement, the NHS Modernisation Agency, the National Patient Safety Agency, the NHS Leadership Centre and the Department of Health. The Centre’s main programmes are education, research, advice and support as well a membership quality network.
Supporting the development of quality improvement has been an important strand of Andrew’s professional activities. He is currently on the executive of the Institute of Quality Assurance health and social care group, and is a Fellow of the IQA. He has contributed to quality improvement efforts internationally, and during 2003 – 2004 was working half time in the public hospitals system in the Republic of South Africa. HSCQC is also the London Office for the European Society for Quality in Healthcare and Andrew is London Director for ESQH.
Current programmes Andrew is working on include the National Clinical Governance Support Team “Commissioning for Quality” programme, he is directing an EU funded mapping exercise of patient safety in 20 European countries and on the development of sexual health services in the West Midlands.
Andrew’s professional interests include accident and emergency services, sexual health, patient and public involvement and clinical errors. Further posts he has held include European Secretary of the Joint Commission International, Vice Chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust, Trustee of Health Unlimited (an overseas development charity), member of the Clinical Services Committee of the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine and Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He lives with his partner in Lambeth, and outside work his main interests are history and travel.
Description organisation
The HSCQC was set up in 1999 by Andrew Corbett-Nolan, who had been working in healthcare quality within the NHS and at the King’s Fund for around a decade. Clinical governance was a fairly newly planted discipline at that time, and there were no independent reference and resource centre for health and social care colleagues to use to help build capacity.
The Centre, from premises in a community centre in Lambeth, has worked with most of the main NHS central quality related organisations (such as the NHS Modernisation Agency, the National Patient Safety Agency, the NHS Leadership Centre, the Commission for Health Improvement, the Department of Health, the Healthcare Commission, etc) as well as many local NHS organisations. We have worked abroad too, in particular we act as the London Office for the European Society for Quality in Healthcare and have undertaken substantial work in the Republic of South Africa. The Centre has branches in Cardiff and Cape Town
The main work programmes of the Centre are:
Research and consultancy, undertaken by a network of staff and independent associate consultants and staff research assistants
- Education programme, including conferences, seminars, workshops and think tanks
- Benchmarking networks on clinical governance, risk management and the implementation of the NSF for Older People
- Membership Network of some 300 colleagues interested in health and social care
- Connecting, through the Centre’s database of 12,000 contacts, website and partnership with other quality related organisations, colleagues interested in improvement and quality in health and social care
- Mentoring and learning sets to help individuals develop as leaders in quality
- Publications. Apart from occasional papers and our newsletter news@thecentre we publish, in partnership with the national charity Counsel and Care, CARE which is a specialist newsletter on the implementation of the NSF for Older People
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