Mike Jones is an acute physician working in University Hospital of North Durham. Having trained in Nephrology and worked as a consultant in that specialty, he was at the forefront of developing acute medicine as a new specialty. Mike is chair of the SAC in acute medicine, and has been President of the Society for Acute Medicine. He is recently demitted Vice President of the Royal…
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Fergus is a Consultant Nephrologist, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and Medical Director at the UK Renal Registry. Having graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1993, Fergus went on to obtain a Masters in Public Health and Health Services Research and then a further Masters in the Cost-effectiveness of Dialysis in Europe from the University of Aberdeen. He has a special interest in health services…
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Ron is Director of the UK Renal Registry and has more than 30 years’ experience working in the NHS, starting his career after his degree at Aberystwyth University as a biomedical scientist. Ron then went on to work in the fields of governance and quality improvement with senior roles in these areas including Director of the National Clinical Governance Support Team and Head of Healthcare Quality and…
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Tom is a GP and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Primary Care, as well as Lead for Kidney Health Programme, NIHR CLAHRC for Greater Manchester. He is interested in implementation research, with a focus on developing evidence-based interventions grounded in an understanding of routine clinical practice. Between 2014 and 2017, he was Co-Chair of the Think Kidneys Intervention workstream, leading the development of Best Practice Guidance: Responding…
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Joan is currently Associate Director of Patient Safety for NHS England. A nurse by background, Joan trained at Middlesex Hospital in London and went on to do her BSc at Greenwich University in 1990. Previously Joan worked for the National Patient Safety Agency where she was Head of Patient Safety (Anaesthesia and Surgery). This role involved developing national strategy for improving patient safety in anaesthesia and…
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