Professor Aidan Fowler is the Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare at CQC.
He is also National Director of Patient Safety and Deputy Medical Director in NHS England, and Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health and Social Care.
Previous roles:
- Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and Director of the 1000 Lives Improvement Service for NHS Wales, with responsibility for quality improvement and patient safety across the Welsh NHS
- Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Gloucestershire for 10 years and Chief of Service for Surgery for 4 years
- Executive at University Hospitals Bristol while on the NHS Leadership Academy Fast Track Executive Training Programme, including Director of Strategy and briefly Medical Director in Mental Health and Community care in Worcestershire
Aidan trained with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston and was Improvement Adviser to the South West Safer Patient Programme. He worked on patient safety with West of England Academic Health Science Network. He has also worked as faculty with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the peri-operative safety domain in Qatar, infection reduction in Portugal, and teaching improvement and safety in the UK and internationally.
Aidan's surgical training was in the South West after he graduated in medicine from University College London where he is now an associate Professor of practice. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Worcestershire.
