Strategic Governance
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Faculty Members
Michael Deighan
QGC Managing Director
Michael is Managing Director of the Quality Governance Collaborative. He was Ambassador for the British Liver Trust and Chair of the Scottish Board. He was educated in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Rambert London. He chairs and advises Boards in the Public, Private and Arts sectors.
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Dr Helen Dormand
Faculty Member
Dr Dormand qualified in medicine from the University of Cambridge in 1998 and her clinical career has included roles in both NHS Scotland and England. Several years as a Consultant in central Manchester afforded her the opportunity to work across multiple medical specialties involved in the care of patients with complex needs and complex systems.
As a cardiologist with a special interest in imaging, she was a member of the Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network, supporting local and regional imaging service development. As a founding member of Consultants for Change and Development she was clinical lead for large-scale outpatient transformation in central Manchester contributing to the Central Manchester Foundation Trust Quality Review programme, based on CQC methodology.
Having been a Fellow in the inaugural cohort of the QGC fellowship programme, Dr Dormand has now joined the QGC Faculty, dividing her time between this role and the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, where she works as a consultant imaging cardiologist.
Anne O’Brien FRCPE
Senior Faculty Member, QGC Board Member & International Development
Anne was Board Director and Director of Clinical Governance & Operations at NHS Professionals, the Department of Health’s company for temporary staff in the NHS (wholly owned by the Secretary of State for Health). Her previous roles include clinician, general manager, programme management and policy development at a national level. She was previously Director of the Northern Ireland Clinical and Social Care Governance Support Team and responsible for the development and implementation of Clinical and Social Care Governance across the Province.
Keith Conradi
Faculty Member
Keith Conradi joined the RAF in 1983 flying fast jets on the front-line before teaching advanced flying training as a Qualified Flying Instructor. After leaving the RAF, Keith flew for Virgin Atlantic operating both long-haul and short haul Airbus aircraft to destinations throughout the world.
Following the tragic events of 9/11 in 2001, Keith joined the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch, becoming Chief Inspector from 2010 to 2016. During this period, Keith investigated aircraft accidents in the UK and overseas, including the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370, the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 and the helicopter crash on the Clutha Bar in Glasgow. He also represented the UK in the development of European Regulations on air accident investigation and at safety meetings with the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
In 2016 Keith became the first Chief Investigator of England’s Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. He retired from the HSIB in 2022 having successfully worked with government legal teams to place healthcare investigation on a statutory footing through primary legislation.
Professor Paul Gray
Senior Faculty Member & QGC Board Special Advisor on Public Sector
Prof Gray was appointed Director General Health and Social Care at the Scottish Government and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland in 2013, a role he held until late 2018. Prior to this he held a number of roles at the Scottish Government, including, Director General of Governance and Communities, Director General Environment and Director General Rural Affairs, Environment and Services. Until 2009, Prof Gray was the Scottish Government’s Director of Change and Corporate Services, with responsibility for senior staff development and deployment; human resources; information services; accommodation and estates services; corporate learning; employee engagement; and the Scottish Government’s business improvement and change programmes.
Dr Iain Wallace
Faculty Member
Iain studied Immunology and Medicine at the University of Glasgow and later gained an MBA fromStrathclyde Graduate Business School. He was appointed Medical Director of Greater Glasgow Primary Care Trust in 1999 and in 2005 he became the Associate Medical Director for the Women and Children’s Directorate in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. For a time, he combined this role
with being interim Medical Director of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. He was appointed Medical Director of NHS Forth Valley in 2010 before moving to the same role in NHS Lanarkshire in June 2013.
Iain retired from NHS Lanarkshire in October 2018 but continued to be involved in strategic
planning of healthcare as a Medical Advisor in the West of Scotland Regional Planning Team until 2025. During his tenure he was involved in establishing a Major Trauma Centre at the Queen
Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, and led on the development of a strategy for adult
specialist cardiac services across the region. As a Faculty Member of the Quality Governance Collaborative, Iain was involved in a joint initiative with the WHO in Hungary in 2023.
Professor John Brown OBE FRCPE
Senior Independent Director, Vice-chair QGC & Senior Faculty Member
Professor John Brown is a chartered management accountant with over 40 years’ experience of leading large customer facing organisations through transformational change. John is currently the Vice Chair and a Senior Faculty Member of the Quality Governance Collaborative, and a Charity Trustee and Finance Director of the St Margaret of Scotland Hospice.
John was Chair of Hub East Central Scotland Ltd from 2023 to 2025. He was Chair of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde from 2015 to 2023. During that period, he was also Chair of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, the NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Advisory Board, the Glasgow Health Sciences Partnership, and the NHS Scotland Corporate Governance Steering Group. John is the author of the NHS Scotland Blueprint for Good Governance.
Angela Grahame KC
Senior Faculty Member & QGC Chair
Angela Thomson Grahame KC became an Advocate in 1995 and took silk in 2009. She was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple) in 2019. She is a practising member of Compass Chambers, Edinburgh and retains a Door Tenancy in 3PB Chambers, London. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an Accredited Mediator.
She undertakes a wide range of civil litigation, but mainly personal injury and clinical negligence, often in large value and complex claims. She acted for the Greater Glasgow Health Board in the Vale of Leven Public Inquiry into the circumstances of the occurrence of C. Difficile infection and deaths arising at the Vale of Leven Hospital.
She was appointed as a Member of the Task & Finish Group chaired by Leslie Hamilton, in the Independent Review into Gross Negligence Manslaughter (and Culpable Homicide in Scotland) in the medical profession.
Between 2003 - 2007 Angela was a full time Advocate Depute and Senior Advocate Depute for the Crown, conducting High Court criminal trials, Criminal Appeal Court cases and appeals in the JCPC.
Between 2016 and 2020 Angela was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. She is ranked by both the leading legal directories Chambers and Legal 500. Angela is an Honorary Lecturer at Aberdeen University. During lockdown she graduated with an LLM in Dispute Resolution (with Distinction).
Prof Stašaitis is an anaesthesiologist and intensive care specialist, currently serving as the Director for Medicine and Nursing (Head Medical Officer) and Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno Klinikos. He has made significant contributions to clinical practice and healthcare innovation, particularly in the fields of emergency and critical care.
Professor Stašaitis has extensive expertise in critical care management, safety and quality improvement, and optimizing patient pathways in emergency care. His research focuses on sepsis, acute pain management in critical care, and improving patient flow in Emergency Departments. His leadership has profoundly influenced the development of modern emergency medicine practices in Lithuania
Dr. Ildikó Lelkes
Professor Patrick Dunne OBE
Sir Stephen Huw Powis
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Professor Kęstutis Stašaitis
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Dr. Ildikó LELKES is Head of Health Financing and Development Department, Secretariat of State for Health, Ministry of Interior Affairs, Hungary.
She holds an MSc in Business Administration with a major in Finance from Corvinus University, Budapest and a Juris Doctor from Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. She studied international management at Corvinus University, Budapest and Bocconi University, Milan and holds a Master in International Management of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). She has completed the Quality Governance Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2023/2024. Currently, she is preparing an MSc in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
She is fluent in Hungarian, English, French, Italian and speaks intermediate Russian.
Professor Patrick Dunne OBE is Chair of board consultancy Boardelta and the charities The Royal Voluntary Service and ESSA- Education Sub Saharan Africa.
Patrick’s executive experience was with Air Products and with FTSE 100 private equity 3i Group plc where he was Communications Director, a member of its Operating committee and Chair of its Operational Risk forum.
He has helped Chairs across a wide range of sectors in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America to transform the effectiveness of their boards through Boardelta. A member of the Higgs review and author of the award winning “Boards” he has helped to establish many successful courses on board skills over the last twenty years including for the BVCA, Invest Europe and the Financial Times, as well as for numerous commercial and social sector organisations.
Professor Sir Stephen Powis is a nephrologist whose clinical specialty is kidney disease. He served as National Medical Director of NHS England from January 2018 to July 2025. In this role he led national programmes on cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes and prevention, and co-chaired the National Quality Board.
During the COVID-19 pandemic he played a key role in the NHS response, serving on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies and advising ministers. He also oversaw the deployment of COVID antiviral therapeutics at NHS England and led England’s healthcare contribution to the UK government’s antimicrobial resistance strategy.
He held the Moorhead Chair of Renal Medicine at University College London from 1997 to 2017 and was previously Medical Director of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
Currently he is Chair of NHS Professionals, a non-executive director at the Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman and a non-executive director at NHS Blood and Transplant.
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