John Welch RN, BSc, MSc

John worked as a Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Senior Nurse, and Lecturer in ICU through the 1990s. He was then appointed to one of the first Consultant Nurse posts in the UK, set-up one of the first Critical Care Outreach services in London, was the first Chair of the National Outreach Forum, and Programme Lead at the Department of Health Modernisation Agency. John now sits on the Royal College of Physicians group that developed the UK National Early Warning Score and is a clinical advisor for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sepsis.

Currently, John is a Consultant Nurse at UCLH, co-lead of the UCL Partners Deteriorating Patient Initiative across 15 acute trusts (which has halved cardiac arrests at UCLH); and now co-lead of the UCLP Patient Safety Collaborative, leading on quality improvement in the management of sepsis and mortality reduction through the Partnership.