RCoA Quality Network
The Quality Network is a network of regional leads who foster links in QI and safety across the country.
Many departments are working on similar QI aims, and there is a lot we can learn from each other. The Quality Network aims to give our members a peer to peer network to coordinate, share and spread ideas and resources. This includes the sharing of best practice, and signposting training and project opportunities. Enabling members to collaborate and share learning to enhance QI efforts and training.
Get involved!
- Start a conversation with your Quality Network Regional Lead about local QI and develop connections
- Apply to join the Network
- Join our next virtual QI session
Register your free place at our next virtual quality improvement session
We aim to hold two virtual sessions a year. The sessions are open to anyone with a QI role in their Trust/Heath Board. Find out more and register your free place.
Contact your regional lead to start a conversation about QI in your local area
The Quality Network fosters links in QI and safety across the UK. Enabling RCoA members to collaborate on projects, and share learning and resources to enhance QI efforts and training.
To contact your regional lead please email Claire Flatt at qualityimprovement@rcoa.ac.uk
- Dr Prashant Kakodkar
- Dr Vishal Thanawala
- Dr Hannah Kiziltug
- Dr Mark Harper
- Dr Diana Neely
- Dr Annie Hunningher
- Dr Edward Burdett
- Dr Samantha Warnakulasuriya
- Dr Jenny Illingworth
- Dr Joe Lipton
- Dr Maria Chereshneva
- Dr Tom Haigh
- Dr David Laws
- Dr Tamryn Miller
- Dr Gemma Crossingham
- Dr Michelle Lamont
- Dr Kate Carey
- Dr Susan Chapman
- Dr Fiona Christie
- Dr Lesley Jordan
- Dr Khurram Ayub
- Dr Gethin Pugh
- Dr Sarah McCormick
- Dr Satinder Dalay
- Dr Ramya Somasekhar
Spotlight on a Regional Lead
Every quarter we aim to spotlight the work of our Quality Network regional leads, and mentees in the Career Development Programme.
Join the Quality Network as a Regional Lead
Apply to be a regional lead for any of our vacant regions or in a region where there is only one lead. As a regional lead the Network offers:
- a chance to have peer to peer conversations to tackle common, difficult problems in the UK NHS
- access to networking opportunities with fellow QI leaders
- a dedicated workspace on the Futures platform to connect with other regional leads and access QI resources to share locally
- the opportunity to sign-up as a mentor in the Network’s Career Development Programme to build QI leaders of the future
Please send your two-page CV and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and interest in QI and how you meet the person specification to qualityimprovement@rcoa.ac.uk Applications are reviewed by the College's Quality Improvement Working Group.
Quality Network Career Development Programme
We run the Quality Network career development programme which aims to develop QI leadership skills and offers the opportunity to engage in national level projects, building leaders for the future who will undertake local, regional and national QI leadership roles.
Recruitment for 2026/27 mentees opens in spring 2026. For queries please email Claire Flatt qualityimprovement@rcoa.ac.uk
Departmental QI Leads
Each department should have at least one designated QI lead chosen through an internal process within the anaesthetic department. Their nominated title within a department may vary.
Take a look at the indicative QI department lead job description.