Summary
Charles Vincent trained and worked as an NHS clinical psychologist before beginning a research career. In 1995 he established the Clinical Risk Unit at University College where he was Professor of Psychology before moving to Imperial College in 2002. He is now Director of the Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ) and the Clinical Safety Research Unit, which is based in the Department of Surgery and Cancer. He is the editor of Clinical Risk Management (BMJ Publications, 2nd edition, 2001) and author of Patient Safety (2nd edition 2010). From 1999 to 2003 he was a Commissioner on the UK Commission for Health Improvement. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was recently reappointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator.
Publications
Journals
Davis RE, Joshi D, Patel K, et al., 2013, The medical student as a patient: attitudes towards involvement in the quality and safety of health care., J Eval Clin Pract, Vol:19, Pages:812-818
Davis RE, Sevdalis N, Neale G, et al., 2013, Hospital patients' reports of medical errors and undesirable events in their health care, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Vol:19, ISSN:1356-1294, Pages:875-881
Hull L, Arora S, Symons NRA, et al., 2013, Training Faculty in Nontechnical Skill Assessment <i>National Guidelines on Program Requirements</i>, Annals of Surgery, Vol:258, ISSN:0003-4932, Pages:370-375
Flowerdew L, Gaunt A, Spedding J, et al., 2013, A multicentre observational study to evaluate a new tool to assess emergency physicians' non-technical skills, Emergency Medicine Journal, Vol:30, ISSN:1472-0205, Pages:437-443
Walker ST, Sevdalis N, McKay A, et al., 2013, Unannounced in situ simulations: integrating training and clinical practice, Bmj Quality & Safety, Vol:22, ISSN:2044-5415, Pages:453-458