Murray Devine
Murray Devine is the head of policy for patient safety at the Department of Health. His responsibilities include developing the safety aspects of policy on the clinical quality of healthcare, following through the recommendations in the Health Select Committee’s report on patient safety and coordinating a variety of departmental initiatives on enhancing safety for patients.
He is the departmental sponsor for the National Patient Safety Agency. Murray was previously safety strategy lead at the Healthcare Commission, on secondment from the Health and Safety Executive.
His principal role was to advise the Commission on how its work can best help improve the safety of patients, staff and carers. He contributed to designing systems of assessment for the safety of care and played a key role in developing and implementing the statutory code of practice on the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections within the new system of registration requirements for the NHS.
