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Confirmed speakers for 2025

A idan Fowler
Aidan Fowler is the National Director of Patient Safety in England and a Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). He was previously the Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of the 1000 Lives Improvement Service for NHS Wales. Aidan is also Senior Responsible Officer for the roll-out of the major patient safety initiative Martha’s Rule in NHS hospitals in England. The scheme is named after Martha Mills, who died from sepsis aged 13 in 2021.

Merope Mills
Merope Mills began campaigning for the Martha’s Rule scheme after an inquest found a change of care plan could have prevented her 13-year-old daughter Martha's death from sepsis in 2021. Merope Mills and Paul Laity, Martha’s parents have said: “We’re really pleased to see the immediate positive impact Martha’s Rule has made in the hospitals that have introduced it so far. It is our view that listening to the voices of patients and their families makes for the best and safest medicine.”

Amar Shah
Amar is National Clinical Director for Improvement, NHS England and Consultant forensic psychiatrist and Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). He leads at executive and Board level at ELFT on quality, performance, strategy, planning and business intelligence. Amar has led the approach to quality at ELFT for the past 10 years, and has embedded a large-scale quality improvement infrastructure and quality management system, with demonstrable results across key areas of organisational performance.

Rhys Hadden
Rhys is a barrister at Serjeants Inn Chambers in London. He specialises in all areas of public and human rights law. He is regularly instructed to advise on a diverse range of matters including mental health, community care, health care, education and social housing. Rhys co-authored the chapter: Deciding for Others – Children in the 4th edition of the book Medical Treatment: Decisions and the Law, written by members of Serjeants’ Inn Chambers and has a keen interest in the subject of consent as it relates to children.

Dave Snowden
Dave is a Welsh management consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge management and the application of complexity science. Dave is the founder and chief scientific officer of The Cynefin Company, a management-consulting firm specialising in complexity and sensemaking. He has pioneered a science-based approach to organisations drawing on anthropology, neuroscience, and complex adaptive systems theory. Dave previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and was selected by IBM as one of six “on-demand” thinkers for a world-wide advertising campaign.

Nathan Riddell
Nathan is an Anaesthetics trainee working for the NHS in Wales. He has been seconded onto the team taking the OBS Cymru postpartum haemorrage quality improvement project and expanding it across England.

Workshop leaders

Kieran Walsh
Clinical Director at the BMJ

Nicola Davey
Director and founder of the Quality Improvement Clinic (QIC)

Stephanie Meddick-Dyson, QI mentor, Quality Improvement Clinic and Palliative Medicine doctor