Dr Charlie Davie Hub Director for Health Data Research UK Cancer Hub

About me

Charlie is a GenerationQ Fellow and Consultant Neurologist and Hub Director for Health Data Research UK Cancer Hub at University College London Partners.

He is also Programme Director for Neuroscience at UCL Partners, an academic health science partnership which aims to translate cutting edge research into clinical practice.

Charlie qualified in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1986 and completed much of his postgraduate clinical training and early research at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. He was awarded a doctorate by University of Glasgow in 1997 and has been a consultant at the Royal Free since 1999.

Before joining UCL Partners in 2009, Charlie was the clinical lead for stroke services at the Royal Free. He has also been the stroke lead for the North Central London Cardiovascular and Stroke Network.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a member of the Association of British Neurologists, and an associate editor of the European Journal of Neurology.

GenerationQ gave Charlie an opportunity to explore how outcome measures can be used to improve quality across the care pathway for stroke patients. 'For many patients, stroke care involves specialised services across primary, secondary and community care. But the care is very fragmented, with no established way to evaluate and compare outcomes in different parts of the pathway. I wanted to change this by developing a clear set of outcome measures for stroke care, as well as a framework for collecting and evaluating those outcomes across the whole health system.'

The outcomes that Charlie developed have been adopted by several acute and community NHS trusts in north central and north east London. He has also secured clinical commissioning group funding to use some of these outcome measures to evaluate a new model of enhanced early supported discharge for complex needs stroke patients.

The action learning sets proved to be a particular highlight of Charlie’s fellowship. 'I really valued the chance to work closely with health care leaders from different backgrounds and there was a strong atmosphere of respect and support among the group members. This support has extended beyond the confines of the programme itself. For example, two of us were involved in a working group to develop NICE clinical guidelines for stroke rehabilitation.'

He adds that his experiences on GenerationQ have inspired him to teach others about leadership and quality improvement issues, through delivering lectures at conferences and on training courses both nationally and internationally.