Team and supporters

Senior Lecturer in Intelligence and Forensic Exploitation at Cranfield University. Foolishly had the idea to try and pull everything together in one place. 

 Stephen Johnson (cranfield.ac.uk) 

My name is John Sutton and I work in the NHS for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust within the communities and neighbourhood service group. I have worked in the NHS in a role that has responsibility and oversight for patient safety and clinical governance for over ten years, leading and commissioning investigations into harm attributed to clinical services, thematic reviews and quality assurance reviews. My professional background is community nursing, working within integrated healthcare teams.

Throughout my professional time I have seen continuous rehearsal and replication of significant patient harm despite the efforts and interventions of many groups of people. I have witnessed this personally and professionally, at local and national levels throughout the NHS and within independent and government lead inquiries. I have found myself consistently asking the question ‘why don’t we learn from significant harm?’, looking to the relative paucity of theory-rooted evidence to explain this very real phenomenon.

I have previously completed post-graduate studies in advanced clinical practice but, more recently, an MSc in patient safety at the University of Dundee. 

I am keen to explore how a reflective lifeworld methodological approaches can explore the experiences of NHS executive board colleagues and how they respond to the public inquiry process anticipating this may help understand this complex patient safety challenge.