With fourteen years experience of supporting healthcare teams across a range of settings I bring a broad range of skills and qualifications.

I pride myself on taking a facilitative approach, enabling teams to identify opportunities for improvement whilst developing their own capabilities for future projects.

Key skills;

  • Human factors - specialising in complex adaptive systems

  • Appreciative inquiry

  • Quality improvement methods and practice

  • Measurement for improvement

  • Healthcare ethics including promoting autonomy and personalised care

Previous projects include;

  • Understanding the work as done of incident investigators, enabling greater appreciation of positive adaptations for safety

  • Improving recognition and response to sepsis

  • Identifying facilitators of staff wellbeing to improve retention rates

  • Applying human factors thinking to safeguarding practice and reviews

  • Developing and delivering in depth human factors training relevant to staff across healthcare systems

  • Enabling teams to overcome system barriers to shared decision making

  • Supporting implementation of NICE guidelines in primary care

About Me - Brook Howells

TechCIEHF
Technical member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors

MSc Human Factors and Ergonomics
Loughborough University

Postgraduate Certificate in Innovation and Improvement Science
Lancaster University

MA Applied Ethics
University of York

Qualifications