NHSE names critical care doctor as interim national director of patient safety

An interim national director of patient safety has been appointed, after the permanent postholder was seconded to the Care Quality Commission.

Professor Ramani Moonesinghe will replace Aidan Fowler, who is to be the CQC’s interim chief inspector of healthcare. His secondment is expected to last six months and will be full time.

Professor Moonesinghe has been NHSE’s clinical director for critical and perioperative care since 2020. She played a key part in the pandemic, leading on the NHS’s critical care response.

She works as a consultant in anaesthetics, perioperative and critical care medicine at University College Hospitals London Foundation Trust and is a professor of perioperative medicine at University College London, where she leads on a patient safety research collaborative. She is also head of the Centre for Perioperative Medicine and the Research Department for Targeted Interventions at UCL.

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Source: HSJ, 6 March 2025