Dr Amar Shah
Dr Amar Shah is Consultant forensic psychiatrist & Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). He leads at executive and Board level on quality at ELFT, including quality improvement, quality assurance, quality control and quality planning.
He is the lead for quality improvement at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the national QI lead for the mental health safety improvement programme run jointly by NHS Improvement and CQC.
He is an improvement advisor and faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, teaching and guiding improvers and healthcare systems across the world.
Amar has completed an executive MBA in healthcare management, a masters in mental health law and a postgraduate certificate in medical education. Amar is a regular national and international keynote speaker at healthcare improvement conferences and has published over 20 peer-review articles in the fields of forensic psychiatry and quality management.
