CEM speaker
Matthew Cooke
Professor Matthew Cooke PhD MB ChB FRCS(Ed) FCEM DipIMC
Professor Matthew Cooke is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Warwick Medical School and Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Heart of England NHS Trust. He is a Senior Fellow in the NHS Improvement Faculty for Patient Safety and Quality Improvement He leads the Warwick Clinical Systems Improvement Group.
Until August 2007 he was the emergency medicine advisor to the Dept of Health, where he was one of the authors of Reforming Emergency Care and was the clinical lead for its implementation, leading to all English emergency departments having 98% of patients discharged/admitted to a ward within 4 hours of arrival. During this time emergency departments and ambulance services underwent massive modernisation. Over the last 18 months he has been the regional clinical lead for the Darzi Review (the national review of the NHS). Professor Cooke speaks and advises internationally on emergency care systems as well as having advised the National Audit Office, Healthcare Commission and the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit. Warwick Clinical Systems Improvement works across business school and manufacturing groups to bring together knowledge from a wide range of sectors to develop systems for better safer healthcare. The group has developed a range of courses in lean thinking, systems improvement and safer systems with over 1000 people attending such courses in 2008. He is currently undertaking research on human error and reliability and lean thinking in healthcare as well as clinical trials (including management of soft tissue injury and use of mechanical cardiac compression devices). He is a member of the national commissioning board for the National institute for Health Research’s RISC (research for innovation, speculation and creativity) programme and a member of the professional standards committee of the College of Emergency Medicine.
| 20 Apr 09 13:45 - 15:15 |
Meeting Room C EC Specialist Library Reference Group Meeting |
| 21 Apr 09 13:45 - 14:15 |
Founders Room Developing Improvement and Safety Leaders in the Emergency Department |