Dr Kevin Stewart Clinical Director

About me

Kevin is a Quality Improvement Fellow and Clinical Director at the Royal College of Physicians of London.

At the time of his fellowship he had recently been appointed as Director of the Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit at the Royal College of Physicians of London. The unit runs 16 national audits in different clinical areas and lead several related QI projects. 

He has been a Consultant Geriatrician in the NHS since 1990 and was Medical Director of Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust prior to going to IHI.

Dr Stewart graduated from the Queen’s University of Belfast in 1982 and undertook postgraduate training in General and Geriatric Medicine in Belfast and in London.

He was a Consultant Geriatrician in the East End of London for five years before moving to Winchester. He held various leadership posts in postgraduate education, training and management before becoming Trust Medical Director in 2005 and Deputy CEO in 2007.

On return from IHI he went to the Department of Health to become Medical Director of Safety Express, a national patient safety programme across the NHS in England. He has a longstanding research interest in ethics, end of life care and communication skills training for clinicians, on which he has published numerous papers and contributed chapters to several books.

In 2003 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research communication skills training methods for doctors in various parts of the United States.

His Fellowship at IHI concentrated on investigating how clinical leaders can best support the quality and safety agenda. He undertook specific pieces of work on how health care leaders respond to a serious clinical crisis, how to ensure the safe passage of older patients through acute hospitals and how disruptive behaviour can compromise patient safety.