Director of the Good Governance Institute

Developing and implementing the governance and quality systems

Developing thinking on better decision taking by healthcare organisations

Working on a book on governance between organisations

Developing a better practice guidelines to help boards engage with clinical issues

Developing new models of governance for healthcare organisations

Andrew Corbett-Nolan (Director of the Good Governance Institute) is well known for his work on healthcare quality and governance. He joined the NHS in 1987 and worked at local, regional and national level on strategic and improvement programmes, and has since worked in both the not-for-profit and commercial sectors. In the NHS he was the first Director of the NHS national programme Health Services Accreditation, and at the King’s Fund was Director of Development of the Health Quality Service. He has also worked as international consultant to the Council for Health Services Accreditation of Southern Africa. From 2006 - 2009 he was a non-executive director of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, and Chair of the Clinical Governance Committee. As a non-executive director Andrew was designated a Hospital Manager under the Mental Health Act 1983. From 2007 - 2010 he was the Chair of the Institute of Healthcare Management.

Andrew’s professional interests include sustained contributions to developing healthcare quality and patient safety, and is a Fellow of the Open University Business School. He directed the patient safety mapping programme for the EU funded SIMPATIE programme. Andrew’s interest in governance have included contributing a chapter to the Department of Health Gateway publication the Integrated Governance Handbook and has delivered board development programmes to many NHS Trusts and PCTs. Outside work Andrew is active in charity programmes, and was the Vice Chair of the Terrence Higgins Trust and a Trustee of the overseas development charity Health Unlimited.

Andrew's professional affiliations include being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a Fellow of the Charterd Quality Institute, a Fellow of the Purchase Society, a Member of the Institute of Healthcare Management and a Member of the European Institute for Corporate Governance. He is widely published on quality and governance issues, and is currently engaged in look at the relationship between patient safety and healthcare cost savings.