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Liz Baines

Liz Baines

Liz Baines has been a Principal Safety & Learning Advisor with the Welsh Risk Pool within NHS Wales Share Services Partnership since 2020.  In this role Liz focuses on the Consent to Examination and Treatment Improvement Programme and is the work-stream lead for the Learning from Mortality Review System which is part of the Once for Wales Concerns Management Programme. 

Prior to joining the Welsh Risk Pool Liz enjoyed a nursing career spanning over 30 years in a variety of clinical roles including fifteen years as a Nurse Specialist in Genetic Counselling, also a Thromboprophylaxis Nurse Specialist and Staff Nurse roles in both the acute and community settings.  More recently Liz has also contributed to the effort against the Covid-19 pandemic by working as a vaccinator. 

In 2005 Liz started her patient safety journey becoming the Patient Safety Coordinator for Conwy & Denbighshire NHS Trust, one of the 4 UK pilot sites for the IHI’s Safer Patients Initiative. Liz has since held a number of national patient safety roles including Patient Safety Manger with the NPSA, Programme Manager with the 1000 Lives Campaign and Quality & Safety Manager with the NHS Delivery Unit.

Liz has also worked for Cardiff University as the Senior Project Manager on a national harm measurement research study and is co-author of the report ‘Measuring harm and informing quality improvement in the Welsh NHS: the longitudinal Welsh national adverse events study’.

Liz is based in North Wales, in NWSSP Alder House. When not in work she enjoys socialising, walking, and spending time with her family of both humans and animals.

 

Contact Details 


Email: Liz.Baines@wales.nhs.uk