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Bristol Patient Safety Conference, now in its 13th year, is an independent, national, online event with over 300 attendees.

Hear from patient safety and QI experts through our programme of talks and workshops. Previous keynote speakers have included: Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, Sir Robert Francis KC, Dame Clare Gerada and in 2025 Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Dr Aidan Fowler.

160 QI and Patient Safety projects from across the UK are shared each year in our competition (deadline 2 March 2026)

2026 speakers below

Keynote: Professor Gillian Leng CBE
Gillian Leng is President of the Royal Society of Medicine and a non-executive for the Department of Science Innovation and Technology. In 2024 she was tasked by the government to lead an independent review into the roles of Physician and Anaesthesia Associates. Gillian is a clinician by background, with a passion for using evidence to improve care. Her career has covered a breadth of sectors including public health, healthcare, education and social care. She has worked closely with the life science industries, patient organisations, professional societies, academia, plus local and national government across the United Kingdom.

Dr Rachel Clarke
Rachel is a British NHS palliative care specialist, author, and former broadcast journalist known for her advocacy in end-of-life care and healthcare policy. She has authored bestselling books, including Dear Life, Breathtaking, and The Story of a Heart, which was the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction winner. In 2022, she founded "Hospice Ukraine" to support local palliative care teams. Her work focuses on blending the "hard science" of medicine with the "messy humanity" of care, advocating for dignity in dying and highlighting the human stories within the NHS.

Dr Guddi Singh
Guddi trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge before obtaining a master’s in public health from Harvard University. She is a paediatrician who specialises in neurodevelopmental and social paediatrics. Guddi co-hosted with television presenter Kate Garraway the series Your Body Uncovered, and has also appeared on Trust Me, I’m a Doctor and on Babies: Their Wonderful World. Guddi is an advocate for creative health and sits on the board of the National Centre for Creative Health.

Dr Frances Mortimer
Frances is Medical Director at The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare (CSH) and is responsible for strategic development of CSH's clinical transformation programmes, including Sustainable Specialties and SusQI. She has a lead role in the European KitNewCare project in sustainable kidney care. Frances designed CSH’s Principles of Sustainable Clinical Practice and the SusQI framework for incorporating sustainability into quality improvement in healthcare. She previously trained and worked as a doctor in the UK National Health Service.

Workshops

Workshops include consent, clinical decision support, QI skills, at-home care improvement programmes

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