Patient Safety Spotlight interview with Martin Hogan, Lead Professional Nurse Advocate at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Summary

This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to different people about their role and what motivates them to make health and social care safer. Martin talks to us about the role of Professional Nurse Advocates (PNAs) in improving patient safety through restorative clinical supervision for nurses. He also talks about the need to recognise the close relationship between staff safety and patient safety, and the impact that long waiting lists and limited NHS capacity are currently having.

Content

Blogs by Martin on the hub

The role of the Professional Nurse Advocate: improving both staff and patient safety

Safety culture during a pandemic: a nurse’s perspective

About the author

Martin Hogan is Lead PNA for Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust and his background is as a Macmillan Specialist Nurse in Acute Oncology. He has also worked as the Lead for Surrey for the Royal College of Nursing and as Senior Education and Workforce Development Nurse in mental health.