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| Dr Joanna Bircher |
Our Board plays a vital role in helping to set our overall vision for our work with members and customers, and Joanna joins as the sixth of our Directors taken from our member organisations across the North West; alongside four external independent Directors.
Speaking on the announcement, Chief Executive David Fillingham said:
“We’re delighted to welcome Joanna to the Board. She has wealth of experience not just as a GP in Tameside, but also as a clinical leader across the region and on a number of national projects.
“Our Board have a real range of experience across health and care, which we benefit from massively in terms of our work with our members and customers. We’re really looking forward to working with her in the coming weeks and months, and adding her knowledge and skills to the team.”
Adding to this, Joanna said:
“I am so pleased to be joining the AQuA board at a time when it is being increasingly recognised that supporting UK General Practice to develop Quality Improvement capability may help the NHS to respond to the current challenges.
"I hope to bring with me the ‘eyes and ears’ of a working GP, with experience in applying QI methods at the front line to support AQuA in its mission to improve health and care quality.”
In addition to her role with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Joanna is a fellow for The Health Foundation’s prestigious Generation Q, and Quality Improvement Clinical lead for NHS Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group.
She has also been a GP partner at Lockside Medical Centre, Stalybridge, since qualifying as a GP in 1998, and combines her clinical duties with GP training for the North West Deanery.
In addition, she has also been a Clinical Support Fellow for Quality Improvement at the Royal College of GPs since 2014, as well as their joint clinical lead for the college’s work on the National Diabetes Audit.
Joanna is highly passionate about quality improvement in general practice, and used her Generation Q fellowship to explore ways to support frontline staff across GP practices to deliver improvements.
Joanna regularly shares her thoughts and updates on Twitter via @JoannaBircherQI. For more information on our Board, please visit our website.
In addition to her role with Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Joanna is a fellow for The Health Foundation’s prestigious Generation Q, and Quality Improvement Clinical lead for NHS Tameside and Glossop Clinical Commissioning Group.
She has also been a GP partner at Lockside Medical Centre, Stalybridge, since qualifying as a GP in 1998, and combines her clinical duties with GP training for the North West Deanery.
In addition, she has also been a Clinical Support Fellow for Quality Improvement at the Royal College of GPs since 2014, as well as their joint clinical lead for the college’s work on the National Diabetes Audit.
Joanna is highly passionate about quality improvement in general practice, and used her Generation Q fellowship to explore ways to support frontline staff across GP practices to deliver improvements.
Joanna regularly shares her thoughts and updates on Twitter via @JoannaBircherQI. For more information on our Board, please visit our website.
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