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Kevin Stewart is Medical Director of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch in the UK. His background is in Geriatric Medicine which he still practices part time. He has been a hospital Medical Director (CMO) and a 2009/10 Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, USA. During his fellowship year he undertook training in all aspects of patient safety and quality improvement and completed a Masters in Public Health at Harvard.
Before taking up his current post he was Director of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit at the Royal College of Physicians in London, leading the College’s work on national clinical audits, quality improvement and patient safety programmes.
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch was established by the English healthcare system in April 2017 and is led by the former UK Chief Air Accident Investigator. Its remit is to investigate serious, systemic, patient safety issues in healthcare using approaches developed from aviation and other industries.

1. What Can We Learn About Patient Safety From Aviation?

2. Using An Air Accident Investigation Model In Healthcare

1. Plenary II - Quality And Safety Culture - 14 May, 2019

2. Symposium 8 - Application Of Improvement Science In Healthcare - 15 May, 2019