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Bev Fitzsimons

Former Fellow

Bev no longer works for The King's Fund.

Bev joined The King's Fund in September 2009 and led the Patient and Family Centred Care programme, a patient centred improvement programme. Her research interests are in patient-centred care and quality.

Bev began her career in local government, and then at the academic research unit and Guy's and St Thomas's medical school. She then spent 12 years at the Audit Commission, managing national value for money studies of a range of subjects including maternity services, and services for people with diabetes.

Since then she has worked with the Commission for Health Improvement, and latterly spent five years at the Healthcare Commission, running national reviews of services for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and of the quality of care at Independent Sector Treatment Centres.

  • Report
    • Catherine Foot et al
    • Policy, finance and performance

    Managing quality in community health care services

    From children's services to care for older people and end-of-life support, the community sector plays a key part in meeting the challenges facing our health and care system. This report ...

    • 4 December 2014
  • Blog
    • Bev Fitzsimons
    • Health and care services

    Supporting community providers to manage and improve quality

    Community services are a vital part of delivering co-ordinated care, and could be the answer to many of the health service’s woes in the future, says Bev Fitzsimons.

    • 4 December 2014
    • 3-minute read
  • Blog
    • Bev Fitzsimons
    • Patients and the public

    Why do people find it so hard to speak out in the interests of patients?

    Health care staff are usually motivated to enter their professions by a desire to make a difference for patients and service users. Why then, do they find it so hard to speak up for pati...

    • 10 July 2013
    • 4-minute read
  • Article
    • Bev Fitzsimons et al
    • Patients and the public

    Hospital Pathways programme: lessons learned

    We describe the Hospital Pathways programme, the method used to evaluate it, what we learned about the approach, and how the lessons have influenced the Patient and Family-centred Care p...

    • 19 December 2012