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Health Foundation professorial fellows announced

Awards and Appointments

Professor Charles Vincent has recently taken up the post of Health Foundation professorial fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology.

The Health Foundation has appointed two new professorial fellows to strengthen academic research in patient safety and person-centred care.Professor Charles Vincent, University of Oxford, and Professor Alan Cribb, King’s College London, are both leading experts in the field of improving the quality and safety of care.

The Health Foundation is committed to investing in leading thinkers: providing experts with the resources to develop world-class research to improve the quality of care.

Read more (The Health Foundation website)

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