Steve Barnard, MBA SRPara

Experience

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  North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

  Jun 2006 - Jan 2016

  Head of Clinical Quality

  Strategic and corporate responsibility for the delivery and effective leadership of Clinical Governance across the Trust; developing strategies in the areas of quality improvment, clinical performance measurement, safety, audit and effectiveness to provide assurance to the Executive Management Team and Trust Board.

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  NHS (England)

  Feb 2016 - now

  Emergency Care Improvement Programme Intensive Support Team Manager

  Working with local health and social care communities to support their sustainable delivery of safe, effective and efficient urgent and emergency care.Expertise in improvement methodology, performance delivery and collaborative consultancy. Working successfully with senior managers, executive directors and senior clinicians from all organisations that commission urgent and emergency care or provide care to patients with urgent and emergency care needs. The team’s overall aim is to reduce unnecessary variation in the delivery of urgent and emergency care by highlighting good practice and supporting its systematic implementation along the entire pathway. The role undertakes diagnostic reviews, produces high quality expert reports, supports the development of improvement/implementation programmes and works with clients to bring about sustainable change and increase system resilience. Show less