Realistic Medicine in an Unrealistic World.

Mr Shobhan Thakore MBChB FRCS (EM) FRCEM,

National Clinical Lead for Unscheduled Care, Centre for Sustainable Delivery

Consultant in Emergency Medicine, NHS Tayside

Clinical Lead, Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship Programme, NHS Education for Scotland

Shobhan has been an Emergency Medicine Consultant in NHS Tayside since 2003. He spent 8 years as Clinical Lead of the service with responsibility for operational matters relating to the team and its function in the wider system. He then spent 5 years as Associate Medical Director for Quality Management, working with the improvement team in Tayside providing support to the Board Medical Director and other executive officers across a wide portfolio spanning unscheduled care, planned care, mental health and cancer care.

For the last 8 years, Shobhan has been Clinical Lead for the Scottish Quality & Safety Fellowship (SQSF) programme. This programme trains clinicians and managers of clinical services from Scotland, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Norway and further afield to become improvement leaders with knowledge of QI, design thinking and human factors approaches.

He has recently has taken on the role of National Clinical Lead in Unscheduled Care with the Centre for Sustainable Delivery at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital. In this job he works in a national team to support Scottish Boards in their attempts improve the delivery of unscheduled and emergency care. Whilst in this role he will continue to work as an EM consultant in Tayside and lead the SQSF programme.

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