About Us

The Training and Action for Patient Safety programme is delivered by Peaks Partnership, improvement specialists who have expertise in improvement methods.  The programme was designed by the Bradford Institute for Health Research and the Improvement Foundation, in collaboration with a panel of active clinicians who are experts in patient safety.

TAPS Core Development Team

Dr Rebecca Lawton, Leeds University and Bradford Institute for Health Research

Dr Gerry Armitage, Bradford University and Bradford Institute for Health Research

Dr John Bibby, Improvement Specialist - Peaks Partnership, Deputy Medical Director - NHS Bradford and Airedale, and General Practitioner

Beverley Slater, Assistant Director, Health Innovation and Education Cluster - Patient Safety

The Expert Panel

The expert panel included contributions from:

  • Harry Ashurst, Consultant Anaesthetist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
  • Wendy Beresford, Patient Safety Manager, NHS Barnsley
  • Ray Cushieri, Assistant Dean of the Yorkshire Deanery/Deputy Medical Director, Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Alison Cracknell, Specialist Registrar (Elderly Care), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Medical Educator, University of Leeds
  • Laura Dobson, ST2 Core Medical Training/BAMMbino board member
  • Gareth Flanders, Patient Safety Lead, Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust
  • Kirsty Forrest, Consultant Anaesthetist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Medical Educator, University of Leeds
  • Jay Gokhale, Consultant Surgeon, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
  • Jane Heyhoe, University of Leeds
  • David Newby, Medical Director, Leeds Parternships NHS Foundation Trust
  • John Sandars, General Practitioner & Medical Educator, University of Leeds
  • Donna Thompson, Medical Physicist & General Manager, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust
  • John Sandars, General Practitioner & Medical Educator, University of Leeds
  • Karen Warner, Patient Safety Manager & Midwife, Yorkshire & Humber SHA

Core Steering Group

  • John Wright (Chair), Director of Research, Bradford Institute Health Research
  • Gerry Armitage, Senior Research, Bradford Institute Health Research
  • John Bibby, GP/Deputy Director, NHS Bradford & Airedale/Improvement Foundation
  • Lynne Caley, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Medical School, University of Warwick
  • Ray Cushieri, Assistant Dean of the Yorkshire Deanery/Deputy Medical Director
  • Ruth Kennedy, Chief Executive, Improvement Foundation
  • Rebecca Lawton, Senior Lecturer, Bradford Institute Health Research
  • Mark Purvis, Director of postgraduate General Practice Education, Yorkshire and Humber Deanery
  • Sarah Thomas,Postgraduate Dean, Yorkshire and Humber Deanery
  • Karen Warner, Patient Safety Manager, Yorkshire & Humber SHA

The expert panel and core steering group were supported by Carolyn Clover, Administrator,  Bradford Institute for Health Research

The Bradford Institute for Health Research

Opened in April 2007, the Institute brings together researchers from both Bradford hospital sites, Bradford PCT and collaborators at the Universities of Leeds, Bradford and York.  The Quality and Safety Unit has an established record of addressing key, clinically relevant questions in patient safety, and has a large programme of nationally funded research and development projects.