Biography

Andrew Corbett-Nolan is the Chief Executive of the Health and Social Care Quality Centre in London, UK. The Centre works to support colleagues from the health, social care and voluntary sectors as they work to improve care services, through an educational programme, research, support, benchmarking clubs and their national quality network. The Centre has worked with the Healthcare Commission, the NHS Leadership Centre, the National Clinical Governance Support Team, the National Patient Safety Agency and the Department of Health, as well as many local NHS organisations. The Health and Social Care Quality Centre act as the London Office for the European Society for Quality in Healthcare. More details are available at www.carequality.org.

Mr. Corbett-Nolan has worked in healthcare for nearly 20 years, having been a Director in the NHS, where he led the development of quality standards for patient care and was the first Director of the NHS accreditation service, Health Service Accreditation. He went from there to the King’s Fund as Director of Development of their Health Quality Service before setting up the Health and Social Care Quality Centre in 1999. He has also worked with the USA healthcare accreditors the Joint Commission International as their European Secretary.

During 2003/4, Mr. Corbett-Nolan worked part time as Advisor to the Council for Health Services Accreditation for Southern Africa on their programmes with the public hospital service and the national AIDS programme. He is currently leading a national programme to improve the articulation of quality in NHS commissioning arrangements, and is directing an EU funded research programme mapping patient safety work across 20 European countries.