Appointment as an Advisor to the Independent Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch

July 2, 2017 by Murray Anderson-Wallace

Murray Anderson-Wallace is delighted to announce his appointment as an Advisor to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB)

HSIB become operational on 1st April 2017 and is modelled on organisations like the Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), which has helped to make significant safety improvements in the aviation industry.

Their purpose is to improve patient safety through effective and independent investigations that do not apportion blame or liability. This will be done by determining the causes of health safety incidents, encouraging safety action and making safety recommendations to prevent it happening again. Although funded by the Department of Health, HSIB operates independently.

The Advisory Panel will support HSIB by offering:

Independent scrutiny. Providing external challenge, critique and comment on the status, operation and outputs of HSIB as an independent body.
Stakeholder input. Providing a forum to gather and consider the views, questions and interests of key HSIB stakeholders.
Expert advice. Providing expert knowledge and input to the chief investigator and HSIB on key issues as required from professional, public and patient perspectives.
Network scanning. Providing input and information to the chief investigator and HSIB from the collective stakeholder networks represented by Advisory Panel members.
Investigation prioritisation. Providing input, review and assurance on the short- and long-term prioritisation process of selecting investigations.
Learning and improvement. Providing external review and evaluation on the learning impacts and improvement outcomes of HSIB reports and recommendations.

Murray Anderson-Wallace has a clinical background in mental health services and psychological therapy, but has spent most of his career specialising in the social psychology of organisation and applied communications research.

His consulting practice is focussed on supporting organisations, networks and campaigns to tackle significant professional, ethical and social issues in more sensitive, humane and effective ways. Increasingly, he also supports people during serious incident investigations and represents families as an advocate in coronial proceedings.

Murray is Visiting Professor at the Health Systems Innovation Lab at London South Bank University, where he co-leads the Darzi Clinical Leadership Programme, the MA in Social Change.

His practice also includes work as an independent journalist and editor, producing media to stimulate debate about socio-cultural issues in complex human systems.

Murray completed his training as a Tier 1 Judge with the Judicial College, HMCTS in early 2021 and has been appointed to sit in the Family Courts adjudicating on private and private law matters.

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