Core team
Prof John Wright
Director
Email: John.Wright@bthft.nhs.uk
Sally Bridges
Programme Manager
Email: Sally.Bridges@bthft.nhs.uk
Chung Fu
Business Manager
Email: Chung.Fu@bthft.nhs.uk
Carolyn Clover
Team Administrator
Email: Carolyn.Clover@bthft.nhs.uk
Dr Christine Smith
Co-Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead
Email: c.smith4@hud.ac.uk
Dr Claire Marsh
Co-Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead
Email: Claire.Marsh@bthft.nhs.uk
Shahima Begum
Communications Lead
Email: Shahima.Begum@yhia.nhs.uk
Prof Jo Cooke
Capacity Building Lead
James Hooper
Apprentice Administrator
James is an apprentice at the Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaboration (YHARC). He provides admin and comms support to the core team. James is also working with the ActEarly team, based at the Bradford Institute for Health Reseach. He has 9 years of experience working in customer service roles in the retail sector.
Email: James.Hooper@bthft.nhs.uk
Healthy childhood
Prof Kate Pickett
Theme Co-Lead
Email: kate.pickett@york.ac.uk
Dr Rosie McEachan
Theme Co-Lead
Twitter: @drrosiemc
Email: Rosie.McEachan@bthft.nhs.uk
Chris Cartwright
Theme Manager
Email: Chris.Cartwright@bthft.nhs.uk
Mental health
Prof Simon Gilbody
Theme Co-Lead
Email: simon.gilbody@york.ac.uk
Prof Scott Weich
Theme Co-Lead
Ruth Wadman
Theme Manager
Email: ruth.wadman@york.ac.uk
Older people
Dr Andrew Clegg
Theme Lead
Email: Andrew.Clegg@bthft.nhs.uk
Dr Lesley Brown
Theme Manager
Email: Lesley.brown@bthft.nhs.uk
Urgent care
Prof Suzanne Mason
Theme Lead
Email: s.mason@sheffield.ac.uk
Colin O'Keeffe
Theme Manager
Email: c.okeeffe@sheffield.ac.uk
Health economics
Prof Tracey Young
Theme Co-Lead
Email: t.a.young@sheffield.ac.uk
Prof Laura Bojke
Theme Co-Lead
Email: laura.bojke@york.ac.uk
Amanda Lane
Theme Manager
Email: a.j.lane@sheffield.ac.uk
Improvement science
Prof Rebecca Lawton
Theme Lead
Email: r.j.lawton@leeds.ac.uk
Andria Hanbury
Theme Manager
Following this, Andria spent a year advising Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust on improvement science projects. Before joining the team at Bradford Institute for Health Research, Andria worked as a senior consultant for York Health Economics Consortium, specialising in patient reported outcome measures for public sector and pharmaceutical sector clients.
Email: Andria.Hanbury@bthft.nhs.uk
Dr Luke Budworth
Research Fellow
Email: Luke.Budworth@bthft.nhs.uk
Dr Helen Smith
Senior Research Fellow
Email: Helen.Smith@bthft.nhs.uk
Implementation
Dr Michael McCooe
Implementation Co-Lead
Through his work with the Improvement Academy, Michael has led the development of Structured Judgement Review as an evidence-based approach to learning from deaths in hospital. In partnership with the Royal College of Physicians, he has supported national implementation of the NHS 'learning from deaths' policy and he is a national trainer for the National Mortality Care Record Review Programme.
Michael is a member of the Independent Advisory Group for the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and a Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at Bradford Teaching Hospitals.
Email: Michael.McCooe@bthft.nhs.uk
Beverley Slater
Implementation Co-Lead
Beverley led the implementation of the Primary Care Collaborative across Primary Care Groups in northern England in the early 2000’s. Her work within Bradford Institute for Health Research has included working on integrating behaviour change methods into standard quality improvement approaches, developing networks of practitioners as a key vehicle for learning and improvement, and promoting action orientated approaches within the Improvement Academy.
Beverley is proud that the Improvement Academy team has successfully scaled up safety huddles in over 400 teams across 22 Trusts, improving patient safety and safety culture, and that the Improvement Academy philosophy continues to influence approaches to understanding and improving patient experience, safety culture in healthcare settings, learning from deaths, and frontline quality improvement. This is made possible through continued joint working and active learning between frontline clinical practitioners, lay members, and applied academics with a passion for impact.
Email: Beverley.Slater@bthft.nhs.uk
Kristian Hudson
Implementation Specialist
Kristian is now working within the improvement academy to provide implementation support to the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber (YHARC). He has extensive knowledge in the application of implementation frameworks to plan for, guide and evaluate the implementation of public health programs. Kristian is particularly interested in working with healthcare professionals, researchers and policy makers to generate action orientated knowledge in order to close the gap between research and practice.
Email: kristian.hudson@yhia.nhs.uk