Dr Josephine Ocloo is a Senior Researcher and Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellow. She is conducting research that will help patients to become involved in improving patient safety by working with a diverse range of service users and then evaluating the impact of their involvement in improving safety within NHS Trusts.

She completed a PhD in 2008 from the University of Surrey, which looked at medical harm from the standpoint of those directly affected by patient safety incidents.

Josephine previously worked as a senior lecturer in social work at London Metropolitan University, which included working at a European level on various projects and teaching at the Hogeschool Maastricht.

Research interests

• Patient and public involvement
• Patient experience
• Patient safety
• Equality and diversity
• Health inequalities

Josephine became involved in healthcare and specifically patient safety after her daughter died as a result of a medical failure to manage her heart condition.

Expertise and public engagement 

• Patients for Patient Safety Champion, part of the Patient Safety Programme at the WHO.
• Member of the National Patient Safety Response Advisory Panel at NHS Improvement.

Josephine has held various roles as a patient representative, working at a national level with many healthcare organisations and at a local level with NHS Trusts, her local Academic Health Science Network and CLAHRC in North West London. She is an activist-scholar combining a high-profile role as a patient representative and researcher in patient safety. 

Are you open to PhD supervision?

Yes