Thomas Monaghan

Thomas Monaghan is a quality improvement practitioner from Healthcare Improvement Scotland, and works with NHS boards to enable the use of quality improvement methods to sustainably improve waiting times. Thomas started his career in biomedical research before transferring his scientific approach and data skills to improvement in 2007. He has worked on improvement projects in a range of sectors, including social housing, social care, community-based care and secondary planned care. Thomas has also held a number of different improvement roles, such as a data analyst, improvement advisor and programme lead. In 2015, he started leading Living Well in Communities, a national improvement programme enabling more people to live well for longer at home or a homely setting. In late 2019, Thomas started leading the national Access QI programme as it started its prototyping phase and he is currently leading Access QI as it spreads the use of quality improvement methods to improve waiting times to planned care services across Scotland.