Working with:

    Philips Healthcare
    Philips Incubator
    Catalyst Consulting, Associate Partner
    NHS Wales
    Heartlands Hospital NHS Trust
    Ashford St Peters NHS Trust
    St George's Hospital, Tooting
    Covidien, now Medtronic
    UKRC – Moderator
    Mentor to GPs and Consultants

Lesley Wright Improvement

Continuous Quality Improvement comes from the ability to: use evidence to diagnose the problem, facilitate teams to redesign their service and empower staff to sustain and improve on the gains, underpinned by committed leadership.

As the former national Director for Diagnostic Improvement, NHS Improvement, Lesley is a motivational improvement and visionary change leader, with more than 15 years of experience in continuous quality improvement, leading, testing and developing the ‘proof of concept’ and ‘how to guides’ for redesign in cytology, pathology and radiology, using her expertise to work on clinical pathway redesign for inpatients, outpatients and emergency care services. A clinical background in radiology and general NHS acute care operational management experience, lead to her focussing her expertise in the field of diagnostics improvement. Lesley is also a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and mentor for FISH, Foundations of Improvement Science in Healthcare

Having worked and gained expertise with clinical teams across England, Ireland and the USA, her expertise has been recognised nationally and internationally, in New Orleans, Seattle and Denver, Scandanavia, Northern and Southern Ireland.

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Testimonials

  • Professor Helen Bevan

    Lesley has a phenomenal knowledge base and expertise in improvement science and an outstanding track record in transforming diagnostic services.

  • Cindy Jimmerson, Lean Healthcare West, Montana, USA (Author of: A3 problem solving for Healthcare and Value stream mapping for Healthcare made easy)

    Lesley Wright presented at our annual conference, reporting on the advance of healthcare in the NHS related to Lean. Her enthusiasm and creativity in the work that she guided were clearly contributors to the success of the improvements.

  • Dr Simon Knowles, National Clinical Lead for Cyto-Histopathology

    Lesley’s approach to pathway improvement is rigorous and pivots around a strong focus on baseline data. She approaches each new project with genuine clarity and, because of a commitment to “learning by doing” she is able to impart a similar critical vision to the clinical teams she works with. The true measure of success in continuous quality improvement is sustainability. It is a testament to Lesley’s leadership that so many of the pilot sites continue to survive and thrive at a high level, unsupervised up to five years after the initial intervention.