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UK Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Conference

Join 300+ healthcare professionals at our 13th annual conference
Learn from national experts, gain practical improvement skills, and hear from clinicians who have successfully delivered scalable service improvements in local settings. Attend live and watch on-demand

Questions being addressed this year include:
What is the gender health gap and how it is being addressed? What are the opportunities for AI to improve care and reduce inequalities? How can we use QI to address inequalities? What does it take to really listen to patients including at the end of life? What is sustainable QI? How can we bring care closer to home? How can a QI approach lead to service improvement in practice? How can we prevent deconditioning of older people in hospital? How can we best discuss consent with patients?

2026 speakers

Keynote: Professor Gillian Leng CBE
Gillian Leng is President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a non-executive for the Department of Science Innovation and Technology. In 2024 she was tasked by the government to lead an independent review into the roles of Physician and Anaesthesia Associates. Gillian is a clinician by background, with a passion for using evidence to improve care. Her career has covered a breadth of sectors including public health, healthcare, education and social care. She has worked closely with the life science industries, patient organisations, professional societies, academia, plus local and national government across the United Kingdom.

Dr Rachel Clarke
Rachel is a British NHS palliative care specialist, author, and former broadcast journalist known for her advocacy in end-of-life care and healthcare policy. She has authored bestselling books, including Dear Life, Breathtaking, and The Story of a Heart, which was the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction winner. In 2022, she founded "Hospice Ukraine" to support local palliative care teams. Her work focuses on blending the "hard science" of medicine with the "messy humanity" of care, advocating for dignity in dying and highlighting the human stories within the NHS.

Dr Guddi Singh is a neurodevelopmental and social paediatrician, researcher and broadcaster whose work explores how structural inequality shapes health - and what health professionals and systems can do about it. Working clinically on the frontline and academically at King's College London, she brings a distinctive perspective spanning medicine, public health, ethics, improvement and media. Guddi is a founder of WHAM (the Wellbeing and Health Action Movement) which supports health professionals to act on the social determinants of health, and she leads PoweringUp, an HSJ Patient Safety Award finalist project using youth co-production, creativity and systems change to tackle health inequalities. As a broadcaster she has presented widely for the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera.

Professor Dame Lesley Regan CBE
Professor Dame Lesley Regan is a globally renowned expert on gynaecology and best-selling author on pregnancy and miscarriage. She is professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Imperial College’s St Mary’s Hospital Campus, and Honorary Consultant at the Imperial College NHS Trust. Professor Regan is the Women's Health Ambassador for England and the Past President (2016-2019) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), only the second woman ever to hold this role and the first in sixty-four years.

Dr Frances Mortimer
Frances is Medical Director at The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) and is responsible for strategic development of CSH's clinical transformation programmes, including Sustainable Specialties and SusQI. She has a lead role in the European KitNewCare project in sustainable kidney care. Frances designed CSH’s Principles of Sustainable Clinical Practice and the SusQI framework for incorporating sustainability into quality improvement in healthcare. She previously trained and worked as a doctor in the UK National Health Service.

Dr Hatim Abdulhussein
Hatim is the Chief Executive Officer for Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and a GP in North West London. Currently an Honorary Professor of Innovation and AI in the School of Medicine at the University of Surrey, Hatim sits on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee, the Responsible AI UK Health and Care Group and the Responsible AI Institute Sustainable AI Consortium. Hatim holds Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and Fellowship of Advance Higher Education and the British Computer Society.

Workshops

Jacqui Holmes
Jacqui is Operational Lead for Inpatient Physiotherapy at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust following a role as Senior Physiotherapist and Team Lead in Health Care for Older People. She currently leads on improvement projects connected to the Trust’s Quality Priority to prevent deconditioning. She has launched ‘Eat, Drink, Dress, Move’ as a multidisciplinary approach to care to prevent deconditioning. She was recognised with the British Geriatrics Society’s Rising Star Award for Clinical Quality in 2024.

Workshops include consent, clinical decision support, QI skills, at-home care improvement programmes

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