Jason Leitch

Jason Andrew Leitch CBE (born 25 October 1968) is the National Clinical Director of the Scottish Government.[1]

Jason Leitch

Early life

Leitch was born on 25 October 1968, the elder of two children, to Jim and Irene Leitch. His mother was an office manager and his father was a coal miner, electrical engineer, and college educator.

Education

Leitch attended Airdrie Academy from 1980 to 1986 and became school Dux.[2] He played the part of Ralph Rackstraw in the school production of HMS Pinafore.

Leitch graduated in dentistry from the University of Glasgow in 1991. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons (England) in 1996.

He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow (2004), a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University (2006) and is a fellow of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2004) and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2004). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2004).

He was a 2005-06 Quality Improvement Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in Boston, sponsored by the Health Foundation, he is now a Senior Fellow at the IHI.

Career

Clinical

Leitch completed a number of training jobs in the West of Scotland prior to becoming a Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Oral Surgery at Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.

Scottish Government

Leitch has worked for the Scottish Government since 2007 when he joined as the National Clinical Lead for Safety and Improvement. This was followed by roles as the National Clinical Lead for Quality; the Clinical Director of the Quality Unit and he is now The National Clinical Director in the Health and Social Care Directorate.

He is a member of the Health and Social Care Management Board and one of the senior team responsible for implementation of the NHS Scotland Quality Strategy.[3]

Leitch is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee. 

Responsibilities

Leitch is responsible for quality in the health and social care system, including patient safety and person-centred care, NHS planning, and implementing quality improvement methods across the government and the broader public sector. He is a member of the Transformational Change as well as the Performance Boards at the Scottish Government.

Scottish Patient Safety Programme

Leitch was part of the senior team who conceived, designed and led the Scottish Patient Safety Programme.[4]

Board positions
  • Non-executive Board member of the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland. He sits on their Board, investment committee and the nominations committee.[5]
  • Director of the Nazareth Trust - a UK charity in Israel which runs the hospital in Nazareth for the Arab Israeli community and a large nursing school.
  • Trustee of the Indian Rural Evangelical Fellowship - which runs orphanages in southeast India.
  • Until December 2012 he chaired the Conduct and Health Committees of the General Dental Council, the regulatory body for dentistry in the UK.

Awards and Honours

Leitch was the 2011 HFMA UK Clinician of the Year,[6] and was made an Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee in 2013.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to healthcare and charity.[7]

Advisory roles

Leitch has been invited to speak at events around the world and has advised Governments in the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Republic of Ireland, Jordan, Canada, Brazil and South Africa.

He was appointed to the NHS England review group led by Don Berwick looking into the patient safety elements of the Francis Enquiry.

Selected bibliography

Presentations

Books
  • Dick S, Daniel M, Leitch J. 2010. Applying a Reliable Design Framework to Improve Quality of Care for Your Patients. Case Study: Implementing the Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (VAP) Prevention Bundle. Published by the USAID Health Care Improvement Project. Bethesda, MD: University Research Co., LLC (URC).
  • Medical emergencies in the Dental Surgery. Robb ND, Leitch JA. Oxford University Press, London,  2006.
  • General and Oral Surgery. Wray D, Stenhouse D, Lee D, Clark A. Elsevier, London,  2003 – chapters on conscious sedation techniques and extractions.
  • Churchill's pocketbook of Clinical Dentistry. Chesnutt I, Gibson J. Churchill Livingstone, 2002, 2004, 2006. – Chapter on analgesia, sedation and general anaesthesia.

Articles
  • O'Brien C, Urquhart CS, Allam S, Anderson KJ, Leitch JA, Macpherson A, Kenny GNC. Reaction time-monitored patient-maintained propofol sedation: a pilot study in oral surgery patients. Anaesthesia, 2013, 68: 760–764.
  • Robb ND, Leitch J, O’Brien C. Predoctoral Teaching in Intravenous Conscious Sedation: Ten Years at Glasgow Dental School. Journal of Dental Education, 2013 (7):58-62.
  • Moore R, Strachan H, O’Shea R, Leitch J. The nursing contribution to quality healthcare in NHSScotland. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 2012(3):29-35.
  • Keightley A., Lucey S, Leitch J, Lloyd R, Campbell, C. Summary of: A pilot improvement project in hospital-based oral healthcare: improving caries risk assessment documentation. British Dental Journal, 2012(2):84-85.
  • Haraden C, Leitch J. Scotland's Successful National Approach To Improving Patient Safety In Acute Care. Health Aff. 2011; 30(4):755-63.
  • Rooney KD, Leitch J. Quality and Safety in NHS Scotland. The British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease  2010; 10 (2): 98-100.
  • Rooney KD, Leitch J. Advancing patient safety – The Scottish Patient Safety Programme. Anaesthesia News 2009; 260: 20-1.
  • Rooney KD, Leitch J. Standards, safety and quality – where next? The Scottish Patient Safety Programme. Journal of the Intensive Care Society 2008; 9 (3): 271-2.

References
  1. "Professor Jason Leitch - gov.scot". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. "PROFILE: Jason Leitch, the professor who took on Piers Morgan and is providing some of the clearest advice on the coronavirus crisis".
  3. "Interview: Scotland's national clinical director Jason Leitch on changing culture in healthcare". Holyrood Magazine. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  4. "Scottish Patient Safety Programme | NHS HIS". www.scottishpatientsafetyprogramme.scot.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  5. "Jason Leitch | MDDUS". MDDUS. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  6. "HFMA Awards 2011". www.hfma.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  7. "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B9.
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