Mohn Centre / PaeCH Winter Lecture “Kindness in Healthcare” by Dr Bob Klaber OBE

Bob Klaber is a Consultant General Paediatrician & Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Bob trained as an educationalist alongside his postgraduate paediatric training in London and has a strong interest in individual and systems learning, quality improvement, behavioural insights work, leadership development and kindness. He has completed a mixed methods MD researching leadership approaches in healthcare and is a Professor of Practice (Population Health) at the School of Public Health, Imperial College Healthcare. Bob is also a member of the NHS Assembly.

In 2015 Bob set up a team who continue to drive an ambitious project to create a culture of continuous quality improvement across Imperial College Healthcare. In his current Executive Director role he is responsible for strategy, research, innovation and improvement across the Trust. This also involves clinical leadership around redevelopment, sustainability, improving population health, developing the Trust’s role as an anchor institution and improving health equity.

Bob is also a strong advocate for child health and co-founded the Connecting Care for Children (CC4C)  integrated child health programme in North West London www.cc4c.imperial.nhs.uk , which is focused on developing whole population integrated care models of care and learning within paediatrics and child health.

Bob is also leading a global movement on kindness in healthcare – now involving a network of 1400 people from 34 different countries, with the aim of refocusing our health and care systems back on their mission to deliver care. https://kindnessinhealthcare.world/