Patient Safety Spotlight interview with Rob Galloway, Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals Sussex

Summary

This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Rob talks to us about his passion for using human factors to improve safety in emergency departments, how allowing doctors to choose their own shifts can make staffing safer and how better integrating technology could help doctors diagnose and treat patients more safely and effectively.

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Case study: Using e-rostering to improve staff wellbeing and retention (NHS England, October 2022)

In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an A&E Doctor

About the author

Professor Rob Galloway is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. His interests include medical education, human factors, modernising processes for admitting patients from A&E to the hospital (single clerking) and supporting staff with sustainable working practices including novel self-rostering annualised rotas and new types of split clinical/non clinical fellow posts. Rob is also the lead crowd doctor for Brighton and Hove Albion Football club and is the Medical Director of the Brighton Marathon.