Jay Banerjee MBBS, MSc, FRCS, FRCEM

Jay is an Emergency Physician with special interest in caring for older people, the Associate Medical Director for Clinical Quality & Improvement at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Honorary Associate Professor in Emergency Care in the Department of Health Sciences and Academic Clinical Champion for Clinical Leadership, University of Leicester.

Jay is involved in several whole systems service improvement initiatives at local and national level to improve care of frail older people and promote a person-centred culture; teaches regularly on frailty, quality improvement and patient safety; manages the largest International Medical Graduate programme (HSJ Award 2016: Workforce) in Leicester’s Emergency Department. He is also a champion for Safety Culture, having previously led on this for the East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative, and the Acute Care Lead for the Leicester Leicestershire & Rutland Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard. In the past Jay led the multi-disciplinary group that produced the “Silver Book” and more recently, led a multi-national group for developing the “Standard Set for Older Person” for the International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement, funded by NHS England. In 2012-13, he was a Health Foundation Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and since been involved in several initiatives to develop improvement capability including the newly established Leicestershire Improvement Innovation & Patient Safety Unit (LIIPS). Previously,