Improving Patient Safety & Care 2019 Speakers

Dr Luc Téot

Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Head of Wound Healing Unit – Burns Unit, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France

Luc Téot was trained in Paris and Montreal and specialised in Wound Healing, Reconstructive Surgery and Microsurgery. He is currently the head of the Department of Plastic Surgery, Burns, and Wound Healing at Montpellier University Hospital. He is currently President of French WHS, the G-Scars and the Academy of Wound Technology and has held the previous roles of President of the French Elect of the (ETRS) European Tissue Repair Society (2002-2004); President-Elect of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies 2004-2008 and was Deputy Chairman WUWHS Congress II in Paris July 8-13, 2004. He is involved with various journals and is Editor-in-Chief of the Revue Francophone de Cicatrisation (Elsevier) and on the Board of Wound Repair & Regeneration, IWJ, IJLEW, Vulnologia, Innovative Surgical Science. He has authored 153 international Publications, 16 book chapters, 7 books as editor or coordinator and given 456 oral presentations in English, Italian or French. He is founding member of the French Wound Healing Society; the Scar Club and the International Academy of Wound Technology.

Plenary Session

Plenary C - Improving the treatment of patients with severe pressure ulcers using negative pressure wound therapy with instillation

14:50 - 15:35

Rt Hon. Matt Hancock MP
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Department of Health and Social Care

Matt Hancock MP was appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on 9 July 2018. He was Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport from 8 January 2018 to 9 July 2018. He was previously Minister of State for Digital from July 2016 to January 2018. Matt Hancock is the MP for West Suffolk, having been elected in the ...

Professor Ted Baker
Chief Inspector of Hospitals
Care Quality Commission

Ted became Chief Inspector of Hospitals in August 2017. He joined CQC in 2014 as Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals. Before joining CQC, he worked in clinical practice for 35 years. He was Medical Director and Deputy Chief Executive of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust from 2010 to 2014 and Medical Director at Guy’s and St ...

John Welch
Nurse Consultant for critical care and critical care outreach
University College London Hospitals FT

John has degrees in psychology, and in nursing science. He worked as a Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Senior Nurse and Lecturer in critical care through the 1990s, was then appointed to one of the first Consultant Nurse posts in the UK, and set-up one of the first Critical Care Outreach services. John is now Consultant Nurse in Critical Care and ...

Radhika Rangaraju
e-RS Senior Programme lead
NHS England

Radhika is a National Senior Programme Lead for NHS e-Referral Service in NHS England. The NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS) combines electronic booking with a choice of place, date and time for first hospital or clinic appointments. Patients can choose their initial hospital or clinic appointment, book it in the GP surgery at the point of referral, ...

Denise Chaffer
Director of Safety and Learning
NHS Resolution

Denise Chaffer is a registered nurse and midwife and currently holds the post of director of safety and learning for the NHS Resolution (formerly known as NHS Litigation Authority). She holds a master’s degree in management and social care, a first degree, plus a higher education teaching qualification and is currently in her fourth year ...

Elizabeth Beech
National Project Lead - Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
NHS Improvement

Elizabeth Beech currently works as one of three English national project leads for Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance within the Patient Safety Team at NHS Improvement - supporting the implementation of the UK Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy, in particular within commissioning and primary ...

Lucy Watson
Chair
The Patients Association

Lucy is passionate about improving quality and safety in health and social care. She has been a member of the NHS England Quality Working Group providing leadership and expertise with other commissioners in both these areas to improve patient experience of services. She is an experienced Director working at board level in the NHS, ...

Professor Gillian Leng CBE
Chief Executive
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

Gillian is the Deputy Chief Executive at NICE, the Director of Health and Social Care, and a visiting professor at King's College London. Gillian trained in medicine at Leeds, and then spent several years researching the epidemiology of peripheral vascular disease at Edinburgh University. She was involved in the Cochrane Collaboration as it ...

Jane Graham
New Product Development Specialist
CliniMed Ltd

Since 2014 Jane has worked as a New Product Development specialist with CliniMed Ltd. Jane is predominantly involved in bringing new urology products to the UK market for CliniMed including securing their inclusion in the Drug Tariff. These products can either be directly from an initial concept or can be an already manufactured product ...

James Dickson
Director
Piota Apps

After 20 years in finance, I started Piota in 2014 to help organisations connect to and engage their communities more effectively. The big idea was that a good app should enable a local NHS service, clinic, school, charity or other community organisation to reach its people better, whilst also saving time and cost. We now supply apps to 400+ ...

Maddy Warren
Brand Ambassador #ALifeMoreNormal
Tookie Limited

Maddy Warren, the Director of Warren-Charnock Associates, provides HR consultancy in Talent Development and Diversity, with a specialisation in disability in the workplace. She works as a Patient Advocate for Quanta Dialysis Technologies and for Pathfinder Medical, and is a Brand Ambassador for Tookie. She is also creating a new business Medical ...

Jim Tighe
Local Security Management Specialist
West London NHS Trust

I am an RMN with a post graduate diploma in Forensic Mental Health, I have worked in the NHS since 1988 within a variety of Mental Health settings including Child & Adolescent, Acute, Forensic and Community care. More recently qualifying as a Local Security Management Specialist my focus is on reducing violence in the NHS and improving ...

David Chalkley
Deputy CCIO, Digital Safety Lead, Strategic lead for EPMA and pharmacist
Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust

David has been part of the Digital Programme team at the NHS Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust for the past 6 years. His particular areas of interest are user centred design processes, interoperability & open standards and digital clinical safety.

Dr Luc Téot
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Head of Wound Healing Unit – Burns Unit
Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France

Matthew Inada-Kim
National Clinical Lead Deterioration & Sepsis
NHS England & Improvement

Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in Acute Medicine at Royal Hampshire County Hospital, in Winchester, is a highly-regarded expert on sepsis. In his role as sepsis advisor, Dr Inada-Kim advises senior NHS leaders and works towards improving how the condition is treated across England. He also spends time educating clinicians, undertakes ...

Michael Lynskey
Senior Business Unit Director, Advanced Wound Management UK, Ireland & Nordics
Smith & Nephew

Sharon Holroyd
Lead CNS Calderdale Bladder & Bowel Service (Adults & Children)
Beechwood Community Health Centre

I am a proud Yorkshire Lass who decided at 18 to move to London where I undertook my initial nurse training at Barts. I am an RGN and RN (Child) with a specialist diploma in urology nursing and have worked in a variety of NHS and Private sector organisations for the past 29 years. I have spent a lot of my career in roles that focused on renal, ...

Dr Saeed Ahmed
Consultant Interventional Nephrologist
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Saeed Ahmed is a Consultant Interventional Nephrologist who qualified from Leeds University. Dr. Ahmed did his postgraduate training in the North East of England. He has an interest in all aspects of Interventional nephrology and works closely with vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists. Dr. Ahmed has developed a number of ...

Mr Ross J Craigie
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Royal Manchester Children`s Hospital

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Mr Craigie qualified in Aberdeen then trained in Aberdeen, Inverness and Glasgow before undertaking higher surgical training in Liverpool and Manchester. He was appointed a consultant in February 2010 with a specialist interest in surgical oncology ...

Dorothy Peacock
Renal Patient Ambassador
Tookie Limited

Over the last 20 years, Dorothy’s kidneys had been deteriorating due to long term hypertension and in February 2016 it became necessary for her to have a central line fitted into her internal jugular and to begin Haemodialysis treatment. Two months into her treatment Dorothy was introduced to Stephen Tooke, from Tookie Limited and was ...

Stephen Tooke
Commercial Director
Tookie Limited

Stephen is the Commercial Director of Tookie Limited and leads the companies’ activities on product design and development, engaging with the Healthcare Sector and Academia to bring together clinical opinion, patient and carer involvement and technical academic specialists to provide expert advice to create a portfolio of product for Tookie ...

Paul Barrett
Business Development Director
CGI

Paul has extensive experience of the UK healthcare IT market having worked in the industry for over 10 years in a number of organisations from software SMEs to global systems integrators. At CGI, he focuses on areas of clinical application including OPEN e-Prescribing, Integrated Digital Care Records and Local Health and Care Information ...

Anže Droljc
Head of Product Management
Clinical applications at Marand

Anže has worked in many different areas within the healthcare domain including developing the IT system for the Slovenian Cancer Registry and national screening programs as well as Product Lead in the transformation of the hospital to HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6. Most recently, Anže has been leading and developing a closed loop medication ...

Speaker Profiles

Dr Luc Téot

Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Head of Wound Healing Unit – Burns Unit, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France

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