Chris Hancock MSc

Chris Hancock is a patient safety advisor and improvement leader working in Welsh health and social care. He was an original member of the 1000 Lives Patient Safety Campaign team in 2008 and since 2010 he has managed the Global Sepsis Award-winning Rapid Response to Acute Illness (RRAILS) Acute Deterioration program. As an important step in this project, he facilitated the implementation of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) as the standard in all acute Welsh hospitals by 2013, and in over 60 hospitals by 2015, the first large healthcare system in which this was achieved.

Chris background is in critical care nursing and clinical education, he have sat on the Expert Advisory Groups for the NCEPOD ‘Just Say Sepsis’ Study, the NPSA ‘Matching Michigan’ Study, and the European Union IMPLEMENT Programme. He is a Fellow of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme, completed the IHI Break Through Series Collaborative training in Cambridge Massachusetts in 2008, represent Wales on the UK National Outreach Forum (NOrF) Executive Board, and, in 2019, received the RCN Wales ‘Nurse of the Year’ Award in the Individual and Population Health category.