Stuart Emslie
Stuart is a chartered mechanical engineer by profession, and is a former lecturer in safety and environmental engineering at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. From 1998-2002 he was Head of Controls Assurance for the National Health Service (NHS) in England at the Department of Health. The Controls Assurance project was concerned with implementing good corporate governance, in relation to internal control and risk management, across all NHS organisations in England. From January 2003 he has been an independent consultant specialising in healthcare governance, risk management and patient safety on an international basis, working in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA, as well as the United Kingdom. He is currently World Health Organisation (WHO) consultant to the Malaysian Ministry of Health, advising on improving the safety and quality of care across Malaysia’s 135 public hospitals, and he is quality and risk advisor to the Irish Health Service Executive, which is responsible for all public hospitals in Ireland. He is a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University Business School, where he developed and currently leads a postgraduate programme on ‘healthcare governance’.
He is also visiting lecturer at Flinders University Medical School in South Australia, for whom he regularly teaches a Masters module on risk management and clinical governance to postgraduate students in China and Singapore. In his ‘spare time’ he is also voluntary CEO of the recently established UK Policy Governance® Association (www.ukpga.org.uk), which aims to advance owner-accountable, ethical and effective governance. Stuart has a particular interest in applying Policy Governance® in healthcare. He will graduate with a masters degree in corporate governance and ethics at London University at the end of 2007.