Research and Quality Improvement in Practice

James Bruce

Clinical Occupational Therapist, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHSFT

James is an Occupational Therapist employed by the ICU at the Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital. He is an ICU clinical specialist and in a unique role promoting early rehabilitation, humanistic care and rehabilitation education to his ICU team. He has had the opportunity to engage patients in early rehabilitation, screening rehabilitation needs and delivering rehabilitation through the post ICU inpatient journey.

James is interested in upper limb dysfunction post critical illness,  long term functional outcomes, and learning from patients to improve acute care. 

He has had the privilege of co-authoring the Occupational Therapy chapter for GPICS V2 & V3; GPICS Rehabilitation chapter V3; a member of the steering group for the upcoming NCEPOD rehabilitation post critical illness study; he supported the development of the AHP critical care professional development framework; is a member of the ICS AHP professional advisory group and co-chairs the AHP Critical Care Network for the South West of England.

Rebekah Haylett

Physiotherapist in Critical Care and and ICS Physio Professional Advisory Group, Chair

Becky is a Physiotherapist working in Oxford and is the Chair of the ICS Physiotherapy Professional Advisory Group.  Since qualifying in 2006 she has remained committed to the speciality of intensive care, and to the recovery of critically ill patients across their entire pathway.  Throughout her career she has developed interests in multiprofessional education, service development, and advanced practice, and is currently undergoing accreditation as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.  Becky has continued to make contributions to a range of educational sessions for multiprofessional groups, at undergraduate and multiple stages of postgraduate training. She is keen to ensure that all professional groups have opportunities to advance knowledge and skills in all domains of clinical practice, and actively promotes the sharing and exchange of knowledge and practice, critical analysis and development.  Quality improvement remain a key focus of her work, and she is dedicated to projects stemming from clinical practice.

: @Becky_HPhysio