Meet The Team

Dr Adrian Stavert-Dobson is a leading expert on the safe implementation of digital health technology. He operated as a Clinical Safety Officer for ten years before founding Safehand in 2016. Adrian is a former NHS doctor, software developer and health informatician and advises on all aspects of DCB 0129/0160 and Medical Device Regulation. In 2016 Adrian published the world’s first book on managing clinical risk in health IT systems.

Julia  is a Registered General Nurse with 26 years’ experience of working in the NHS in the acute care sector, in both hands-on clinical and health IT clinical change and clinical safety roles. After leaving the NHS Julia worked as a Clinical Risk Manager on the National Programme for IT and has been a Clinical Safety Officer with Safehand since March 2017.

Su is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse with over 25 years’ experience of working in the NHS in cardiothoracic theatres and as a Health Visitor. Since 2009 she has worked in a number of clinical lead and change management roles for several large-scale Health IT implementations. Su worked in a number of Clinical Risk Management roles before joining Safehand as a Clinical Safety Officer.

Michelle had a background in data analytics before becoming a Registered General Nurse in 2012 where she gained experience in orthopaedics, occupational health and clinical research. Following this, Michelle moved to a large multinational company working as Clinical Informatics Expert within their senior management team. Michelle had technical responsibility for legacy systems and overall responsibility for the implementation of their clinical software within the UK. Prior to joining Safehand in February 2021, Michelle completed a master’s degree in information science.

Amanda is a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and former NHS Health Visitor, with extensive experience in Health IT systems configuration and health and social care integration design. Amanda transferred this knowledge, skills and background into Clinical Risk Management in 2013 and has been a Clinical Safety Officer with Safehand since April 2018.

Eric is an Occupational Therapist with over 25 years’ experience of working in the NHS and was involved in several large-scale implementations of IT systems over a ten-year period. Prior to joining Safehand in January 2020, Eric moved to a new role working as a Clinical Change Manager for a large NHS trust where he was responsible for the implementation of several new Health IT systems across three hospital sites and a community division.

Natalie is a Registered Midwife with over 20 years’ clinical and healthcare management experience. Within the NHS she has worked as a clinical and Research Midwife. Natalie also practiced midwifery in the United Arab Emirates before holding the position of Clinical Audit manager. A passion for risk management lead to her appointment as the Quality and Patient Safety lead for a private general hospital in Oman. In 2016 her extensive knowledge and skills were transferred to healthcare software product ownership and management in the UK. Natalie has been a Clinical Safety Officer with Safehand since June 2021.

Louise is a Registered General Nurse and former Midwife with 27 years’ experience working in the UK (NHS), Australia and the United Arab Emirates in both clinical and education roles. Since leaving clinical practice in 2008, Louise has worked in the UK health technology industry in clinical informatics roles including clinical safety.

Richard is a Clinical Pharmacist with a non-medical prescribing qualification and over 15 years' experience of working in the NHS. He has worked with NHS Trusts on a range of healthcare IT projects and more recently across an ICS. He has extensive experience of change management including leading the roll out of an ePMA system and embedding an integrated discharge referral system before joining Safehand as a Clinical Safety Officer in 2022.

Lisa is a practising Speech and Language Therapist with 10 years’ experience in the NHS, as well as private practice. In 2018, Lisa moved into the commercial sector working for a digital health technology company as a Clinical Implementation Manager, supporting implementation of digital health products into healthcare organisations. Lisa trained as a Clinical Safety Officer at the start of 2019 and has been working for Safehand since August 2022.

As a GP Partner for 19 years in a large urban practice, Blythe led on Clinical Governance and Clinical Risk Management. She designed and implemented various innovative systems changes in the practice, while ensuring continuous quality improvement. In 2002, she also co-founded a company that remotely managed practice transformation projects, leading on clinical quality assurance and risk management for those projects. She has worked as a CSO in a health tech start-up environment and for a large clinical service provider before joining Safehand.

Lucy is a HCPC registered Speech & Language Therapist and has worked in a variety of specialist areas including in patient and community Mental Health and Neuropsychiatry. Lucy specialises in Learning Disabilities and Autism and is a qualified Dysphagia practitioner. Lucy discovered her passion for Digital Health working as a Clinical Specialist supporting the implementation of an Electronic Health Record into both Health and Social Care services. Prior to working at Safehand Lucy was the Clinical Systems Manager and Clinical Safety Officer for a large independent provider of Mental Health services to the NHS.

Alex specialised in Child and Adolescent Mental Health after registering as a Mental Health Nurse and spent 14 years working across a range of NHS CAMHS settings including inpatient, intensive home treatment, paediatric psychiatric liaison, and community outpatients. In 2021 he helped establish a new digital therapies team in which he led on quality assurance and clinical safety and later, digital transformation within the service more widely. This led to working part-time as a CSO for the Trust, where he implemented for the first time the required systems for managing clinical safety of health IT and led on developing a culture of digital clinical safety at the organisation. Those skills and experiences came with him to Safehand in February 2024.

Oyinkan is a Registered Mental Health Nurse with a wealth of experience across various specialist services. Her professional journey encompasses roles in inpatient mental health units, A&E liaison, and community substance misuse services.
In 2021, Oyinkan transitioned to the commercial sector, joining a medical technology company as a Customer Success Manager. In this role, she leveraged her clinical background to support the integration of cutting-edge medical technology products into both private and NHS organisations, ensuring successful implementation and optimal outcomes for users.

Linda is an experienced Chartered Physiotherapist with 25 years of experience within her specialty areas of outpatient musculoskeletal physiotherapy and primary care services. Before becoming a Clinical Safety Officer Linda worked for a large global digital health tech company who provide both NHS and private physiotherapy primary care services. Her role as Lead Physiotherapist involved clinical line management of a large team, training and education, governance, change management and working with new technology and systems. She has always believed that every patient deserves exceptional clinical quality. Patient safety is a huge part of this, which she now applies to her CSO role.

Alexandra Honour has over 20 years of experience as a registered nurse, which started in Accident & Emergency, she has dedicated her career to advancing healthcare delivery and patient safety. Over the last 16 years her journey transitioned into the medical device industry, where she spent 7 years as a clinical trainer for Baxter Healthcare and 9 years as the European Clinical Manager at TSC-Connected Care. During this time, she served as the Clinical Safety Officer, ensuring the highest standards of safety for innovative wireless patient monitoring solutions.

Rebecca is a registered Midwife with 22 years of experience working in the NHS across both inpatient and outpatient maternity services. Rebecca has worked as a digital clinician for the past decade, leading the transition from paper to digital systems, working in collaboration with health IT suppliers, clinicians and the NHS IT teams to ensure successful implementation. Rebecca is a Florence Nightingale Digital Scholar with a passion for patient safety. Driven by the view that technology can enhance care quality when delivered to the highest safety standards, Rebecca joined us at Safehand as a Clinical Safety Officer.