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Suzette Woodward
Country
United Kingdom
Job title
Deputy Director of Safer Practice
Organisation
National Patient Safety Agency
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Biography
Suzette Woodward is a qualified nurse who specialised in paediatric intensive care. She had a long clinical career before moving in to quality improvement and clinical risk management. She has a post graduate Diploma in Management Studies and an MSc in Clinical Risk Management. Her current role is Deputy Director of Safer Practice and Head of Patient Safety Improvement at the NPSA where she is responsible for spreading and disseminating the NPSA's work at a local level and line managers 31 remote workers. She is the author of the NPSA's guidance, Seven Steps to Patient Safety, which is used as a framework for local patient safety. This guidance has been further developed into checklists for chief executives, training programmes for NHS staff including Board level and a specialist version for primary care.
Description organisation
The National Patient Safety Agency is a Statutory Health Authority which was formed in 2001. The Agency has set up a national reporting and learning system which captures incidents reported from England and Wales. This data is assimilated with international research, audit and work programmes to develop NHS wide solutions. The aim is to reduce harm and improving patient safety by designing out error.
ONELINER
patient safety
Patient safety is about people not statistics.
Publications
patient safety
Deputy Director of Safer Practice