About the team
We are a team of clinical and academic experts in healthcare teamwork with a passion for improving patient, staff and organisational outcomes by supporting teams to work well together. Members of the team have worked together since 2010, initially focussing on co-designing teamwork interventions for oncology MDTs. In recognition that most of the structures, processes, issues and solutions to teamworking were not unique to oncology, we set about developing TEAM-QI.
Professor Cath Taylor
Cath is a professor of Healthcare Workforce Organisation and Wellbeing in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Surrey. An organisational psychologist, Cath’s research focuses on the relationship between work and wellbeing, with a particular interest in how the structures and organisation of work can influence wellbeing. Cath co-leads the Workforce Organisation and Wellbeing group (WOW) in the School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey.
Dr Jenny Harris
Jenny is a senior lecturer in Cancer Care and Health Statistics in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Surrey. Her research areas include a focus on healthcare delivery and outcomes based on data-driven approaches often informed by psychological and behavioural insights. Methodological interests include predictive risk modelling incorporating questionnaires, surveys and questionnaire design and validation, mixed-methods evaluations of complex interventions (quasi-experimental designs, feasibility studies, RCTs) and real-world implementation of electronic Patient Reported Outcome and Experience Measures.
Sarah Beck
Sarah Beck is a research fellow and clinical health psychologist working in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Surrey. Sarah has a background in behaviour change and patient care with her doctoral thesis exploring patient experience of cancer diagnoses. She is the project manager for TEAM-QI.
Professor James Green
James is Clinical Director of Urology and Urological Cancer for North East London and a consultant urological surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust. He is an experienced clinical who combines academia with practice change management and is currently Quality Improvement Lead for Whipps Cross University Hospital. He was part of the original team that devised MDT FIT for cancer teams across the UK.