Past Presidents

Emergency Medicine Consultant, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Trust; Honorary Clinical Professor, Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS)

Rob is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and dual trained in Intensive Care. His medical interests are in improving patient outcomes through changing ‘systems of care’. This encompasses the use of human factors and developing expertise in risk taking, to novel approaches with patient pathways, to reforming how we treat our colleagues, with new rostering systems which values our staff.

His passion is education, running human factors courses inside and outside of UHSussex NHS Trust and leading for undergraduate A&E teaching at BSMS.

His impact on changing NHS practices saw him named as one of the Health Service Journal’s Top Ten NHS Wild Card Influencers and being made a member of the order of St John.

He has had several roles outside of the NHS – being the medical director of the Brighton Marathon for ten years, leading the medical service at the AMEX stadium and is the medical advisor to Brighton and Hove Albion FC. He works in the media writing a column every two weeks in the health section of the Daily Mail and frequently speaks on TV and radio about health-related matters. He wrote a book, under a pseudo name, Dr Nick Edwards, about working in A&E which has sold over 500,000 copies “In stitches the highs and lows of life as an A&E Doctor”. He has another book coming out next year called lessons from bed 12, which looks at what we can learn as individuals, as healthcare workers and as a society from the patients we see in A&E.

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