Green Room Team
Paul Griffiths
Director
Paul was recently Head of Delivery for Digital Care Models at NHS England. Paul has over 20 years experience in a range of operational, quality improvement, transformation, and senior leadership roles across NHS organisations, and is also a trained improvement coach. Paul has extensive experience in leading large-scale improvement programmes, alongside enabling team and leadership development to enable sustained transformation. Paul has led work that has received national and international recognition.​ He has worked operationally to manage large complex services and has an in depth understanding of acute care services and is experienced at managing and developing them.
Paul has led national work to identify and apply digital solutions to elective care pathways, using his experience in leading change and working with multiple organisations across the NHS to support them in creating new digitally enabled care pathways. ​Paul has an MSc in Health and Social Care Leadership and PhD in Health and Related Research and draws upon his experience in research and evaluation to support all aspects of his work. Paul is happily married, a keen runner and football fan and can usually be found either running round Sheffield and the Peak District or enjoying watching Sheffield Wednesday with his three young boys.
Caroline Eadson
Director
Caroline is an Occupational Therapist, Leadership Development and Improvement training expert, Insights Discovery Practitioner, Team Coach, and HLM 360 Facilitator. With over 25 years experience in NHS and Social Care settings across the UK, she has worked with many teams and individuals to make care better for people, including lead roles in establishing new services and innovation implementation and spread. Caroline has designed, led, and delivered multiple international conferences and presented at others nationally and globally.
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She has a Masters degree in Health & Social Care Leadership, underpinning practice with theory. With her clinical and leadership background and improvement experience, Caroline brings a heap of positivity balanced with a practical mind and makes a real difference. When not doing the job she loves, she is on adventures with her family and dog, mooching around the Peak District, Spanish coastal paths, and sometimes squeezing in a bit time for art.
Steve Harrison
Director
Steve is Deputy Director of Organisational Development at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSFT. He has decades of experience working in OD and quality improvement in the NHS. Steve introduced the microsystem team coaching improvement methodology to STH in 2011 and worked with multiple services to help them transform and improve. He established the Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy (MCA) in 2012 which has trained over 2400 staff in the fundamentals of QI and team coaching. The MCA won the 2014 HSJ Patient Safety Award for Changing Culture. Steve has worked with many other organisations on QI including the Dartmouth Microsystem Academy as faculty for the Cystic Fibrosis Canada and the Ireland Emergency Department improvement programmes. He has worked with Rubis QI on several national improvement collaboratives. He established the Cystic Fibrosis Health Hub Programme (CFHH) with colleagues and as a researcher for the NIHR funded project - 'Quality improvement in cystic fibrosis: What can we learn from each other?' His work on team development and QI coaching led Steve to win the national NHS Leadership Academy award for coaching and mentoring in 2015. Steve designed and established the national Flow Coaching Academy (FCA) programme with colleagues at STH with the Health Foundation. The programme went on to develop QI at sites across the whole of the UK and won the BMJ award for Innovation in Quality Improvement in both 2019 and 2020. Steve currently leads the OD team at STH working on improvement programmes and building capability in QI and leadership development. He began his career in the NHS in 2008; formerly he worked as a Town Planner, as a musician and in project management and retail store management.
Dr Karl Brennan
Director
Dr Karl Brennan is a Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia & Neurocritical Care in a Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH). Karl began his career as a surgical trainee in Sheffield, briefly as a registrar in cardiothoracic surgery before pursuing anaesthesia. He enjoyed his first consultant job in Leeds Teaching Hospitals before returning to Sheffield 2 years later. Karl is passionate about quality improvement, coaching and leadership and believes QI has the power to enhance the lives of patients and staff. As a member of the senior management team for organisational development at STH, Karl worked with the building capability team and was faculty member of the national FLOW Coaching Academy, winner of the BMJ Award for Innovation in 2019. He co-created and clinically led the Seamless Surgery programme, an elective care QI programme which was ‘highly commended’ at the 2018 HSJ Value Awards.
Karl became Clinical Director for Anaesthesia & Operating Services in Sheffield in 2019. He has led his outstanding team of over 1,000 staff through the Covid pandemic and beyond, supporting critical care surge and maintaining priority surgery throughout. He is responsible for the delivery of 36,000 surgical procedures and a budget of £47 million. Karl continues to seek opportunities to use improvement to benefit at a system level. He is Peri-op Clinical lead for GIRFT for Northeast & Yorkshire and sits on the National Peri-op Clinical Liaison Group. (GIRFT is the national improvement programme of NHS England).
Karl is Deputy Chair of the Clinical Leaders in Anaesthesia Network at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, representing clinical leaders from across the UK. He is a co-opted member of Council of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.