Dr Alice Bradley
Alice gained her undergraduate medical degree from the Peninsula Medical School in 2017, before moving to Edinburgh for her foundation training years. Throughout her training she held several leadership roles. At medical school she was elected as a permanent student council member and as a foundation trainee was appointed to the Southeast Scotland Doctors’ committee. Alice has spent the last two years completing core surgical training in North West London, where she has pursued an interest in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Here, she has continued to build on her leadership experience as trust surgical trainee representative.
Alice is passionate about improving patient safety and outcomes. She has designed, led and published several quality improvement and service transformation projects, as well as contributing to national research as a local investigator. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally and her findings have informed local service restructuring, workforce provision and contributed to the development of new national guidelines.
Prior to commencing her core surgical training, Alice completed a general surgical fellowship during which time she took the opportunity to work in surgical camps in Uganda. This experience, alongside her frontline work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic cultivated her interest in health inequality, patterns of health determinants and the policies and interventions we can apply to improve health at a population level.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Alice is passionate about clinical leadership within healthcare. She is convinced of the need for clinicians to be “in the room”; ensuring decisions are clinically relevant with patient care at the core. This scheme will not only allow her to apply and build on leadership skills developed in her career thus far, but also offers unique learning opportunities in strategy development, project management and systems-thinking.
Alice is delighted to have been appointed to the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme and to be joining Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). She is looking forward to seeing first-hand how national data can be applied to inform healthcare policy and impact positive change, as a future leader within the health sector. She believes this fellowship provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn from senior leaders and gain a better understanding of the complexities of the wider healthcare landscape.
