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Clinical leadership
Dr James Mountford
BMJ Leader
Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Leader
Expertise: clinical leadership, patient safety, quality improvement, co-production, unwarranted variation, value in healthcare
Dr James Mountford is Director of Quality at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He worked initially as an NHS doctor, then in consulting. From 2005-2007, he was a Commonwealth Fund/Health Foundation Harkness Fellow based in Massachusetts General Hospital, and at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), both in Boston, USA. Before moving to the Royal Free, he was Director of Quality at UCLPartners, an academic health sciences partnership serving a population of 3 million in and around London. He sits on the board of AQuA, the improvement partnership based in north-west England. In March 2020 he was seconded to work as the Chief of Quality and Learning at the NHS Nightingale Hospital London, opened in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.