Natasha McIntyre
Room E6-117, Victoria Hospital
t. 519.685.8500 ext. 35418
e. Natasha.McIntyre@lhsc.on.ca
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Dr. McIntyre is the CQuInS Operational Lead, overseeing the day-to-day operational direction of the Centre and it’s programs as well as being involved in Centre QI activities. She also holds Adjunct positions in the Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University.
Her interests lie particularly with the implementation of evidence into practice, patient safety and ethics in quality improvement. She qualified as a registered nurse in 1991 in London, UK, where she specialized in nephrology nursing and worked in the National Health Service (NHS) until moving to Canada in 2014. She held senior nursing leadership roles in the UK and has been involved in quality improvement for over 20 years in the NHS. She has a post-graduate Diploma in Healthcare Ethics and completed her MSc in Health Service Administration from Nottingham Business School. She has experience of employing key quality improvement methodologies in a healthcare setting on a local and wider strategic scale. In 2002 she collaborated with nephrology and primary care colleagues locally and nationally, to raise awareness and set up a strategy for early detection and management of people with mild to moderate Chronic Kidney Disease in primary care. She was a member of the National Clinical Guideline Development Group and Clinical Standards Group, for the Early Detection and Management of CKD, at the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (2007 to 2011).
She completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham (‘Defining Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care’) funded by a peer-reviewed research fellowship from Kidney Research UK and the British Renal Society. Together with post-doctoral work she has disseminated discoveries at national and international conferences as well as publication in a number of peer-reviewed journals, contributing to the evidence base for improving the quality of this previously unstudied group of people (approximately 5% of the UK population). Dr McIntyre was also a member of the UK national steering group (2007-2011) for the global study: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) that has informed a large evidence base for quality improvement for patients with Chronic and End Stage Kidney Disease, globally.
Before moving to Canada, she was Head of Clinical Quality and Patient Safety and Deputy Chief Nurse for Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (population of approximately 525,000 people), working in partnership between local hospitals and 55 general practice surgeries to provide safe and effective care. At this time she was a member of the national steering group for an improvement initiative set up by the National Patient Safety Agency to reduce the incidence and harm caused by Acute Kidney Injury and driving forward its local implementation, employing innovative ways of working and commissioning to improve patient safety and quality of patient care.
