Tricia Woodhead MBA

Tricia is a Health Foundation and IHI Quality Improvement Fellow and Improvement Advisor, having been awarded the Fellowship in 2010. Her Fellowship commenced with a year secondment with The Institute of Healthcare Improvement based in Boston, Massachusetts.

She is currently Associate Clinical Director for Patient Safety the West of England AHSN, Improvement Advisor to Zero Suicide South West (HSJ Patient Safety Winner 2016), and Improvement Advisor and Faculty to Wessex AHSN in their Patient Safety Collaboration Programme.

She was Medical Lead for the South West Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Collaborative from 2011-2014. This region-wide program across the acute, community and mental health services used the IHI Breakthrough Collaborative Approach and succeeded in reducing HSMR across the region by 15% in four years through a system-wide and systematic approach to implementing quality improvement methods.