Prof. Aidan Halligan

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rofessor Aidan Halligan -   NHS Director of Clinical Governance. In 1999, Professor Aidan Halligan was invited to become the first Director of Clinical Governance for the UK National Health Service and formed the Leicester-based NHS Clinical Governance Support Team to translate the vision of clinical governance into a nationwide reality.

From January 2003 until October 2005, he served in the UK Department of Health as Deputy Chief Medical Office for England, with responsibility for issues of clinical governance, patient safety and quality of care across the NHS in England. In that role, he was joint Senior Responsible Officer for the National Programme for IT, and the senior director sponsor of the Healthcare Commission, National Patient Safety Agency and National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

Reform & Leadership in Healthcare Organisations In July 2006, Professor Halligan became Executive Chairman of Elision Health, an enterprise formed to accelerate reform and leadership in healthcare organisations. Professor Halligan has recently become Director of Education at University College Hospital, London. In addition he has founded the Healthcare for the Homeless by the Homeless project in London.

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