Patient Safety Learning appoints new Director and Associate Director

We are delighted to announce that we have appointed to two new roles at Patient Safety Learning, following a recent recruitment process.

Clare Wade, currently Assistant Director at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, will take up the new role of Director, reporting to our Chief Executive. She will support the development and delivery of our organisational strategy and take a leading role in the development of our ‘how to’ resources, products and services. She will join the charity at the end of November.

Claire Cox, currently Patient Safety Lead at Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, will take up the new role of Associate Director, reporting to our Director. Claire currently holds a voluntary role with the charity, chairing the Patient Safety Management Network, that she also co-founded. In this new role she will help to coordinate and support the development of our patient safety networks and develop and deliver our ‘how to’ resources, products and services. She will join the charity at the beginning of January on a part-time basis, while continuing in her role with Kings College Hospital.

Commenting on these appointments, our Chief Executive Helen Hughes said:

“I am delighted we can appoint Clare and Claire to these newly created leadership roles. They will both play a vital role in the growth of the charity and help us to make the case that patient safety should be a core purpose of health and care.”

On being appointed, Clare Wade said:

“I am excited to join the Patient Safety Learning team driving forward important initiatives to support patient safety improvements across the healthcare landscape.”

On being appointed, Claire Cox said:

“I am very happy to be joining Patient Safety Learning in this role, and looking forward to further developing the growing number of informal peer support networks for people involved in patient safety hosted on the hub.”