Sidney Beech
Sid joined NHS Elect in 2023 and has worked in both Acute and Community settings in the NHS in a range of roles including insights, patient safety, quality improvement and education. Sid is a member of the QI Faculty at NHS Elect and delivers a range of quality improvement training, workshops, strategy development and more.
Some of Sid’s recent accomplishments include leading on the national co-design of the Quality Coach Development Programme in partnership with 43 other healthcare leaders from across the UK and Ireland. This programme provides a national benchmark for QI coach capability building, and has been adopted throughout the country. Prior to this, Sid set up and delivered the first Master’s degree programme for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in England, delivered jointly by Northampton General Hospital and the University of Northampton. As well as a Senior Lecturer for this programme, Sid also acted as a Visiting Lecturer to the Leicester Medical School for the Patient Safety Curriculum.
Sid has a passion for systems improvement and is currently leading on a national project to co-create a Systems Improvement Practitioner programme. This work builds on the significant demand for support around systems improvement across the UK and is supported by the Health Foundation’s Q Exchange programme 2024.