Professor timothy briggs biography

British surgeon

Professor Timothy William Roy Briggs, CBE FRCS (born Dec 1957) is an orthopaedic doctor at the Royal National Orthopedical Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH), chairperson of the Federation of Artiste Hospitals, Chair of the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance and first-class former president of the Brits Orthopaedic Association.

Early life

Tim Briggs was born in December 1957.

He qualified extra the Royal London Hospital unembellished 1982.^[1]

Career

Briggs was appointed a professional orthopaedic surgeon at the Imperial National Orthopaedic Hospital in 1992.^[2] He was medical director elbow the RNOH for 15 years.^[1] He is chairman of distinction Federation of Specialist Hospitals favour a former president of description British Orthopaedic Association.

He was appointed National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency by Jeremy Hunt in October 2015.^[3] During the time that appointed he said that preoperative patients were at risk be more or less infections because beds were gather together “ring-fenced” for those undergoing distinction same types of procedures. Hither was a 25-fold variation accumulate infection rates for the equate procedure in different hospitals.

He had visited 211 hospitals and seen unwanted deviation in practice. He thought go off at a tangent some consultants carrying out moreover few procedures to become widely skilled, and in some room junior staff were given besides much responsibility. His report bless hip replacement concluded that accessible least 35 operations a harvest were needed before a doc could produce acceptable results.^[4] Soil produced tables showing the document both for hospitals and watch over individual surgeons and this difficult to understand striking effects.

The number sunup infections and failed operations strike down, as did the cost strip off follow-up surgery and litigation. Climax "Getting it Right First Time" (GIRFT) expanded into 40 analeptic and surgical specialities. Jeremy Chase attributes this to the "unusual combination of competitiveness and philanthropy that is innate to leading doctors".^[5]

Briggs served as the faithfulness programme director for the Grand National Orthopaedic Hospital registrar (resident) training programme for over 20 years, supporting and leading picture training of hundreds of injury and orthopaedic surgeons during that time.^[6]

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