Dr Carolyn Johnston
Clinical interests
- Obstetric anaesthesia
- Pre operative assessment
- Clinical leadership and quality improvement
- Associate Medical Director gesh hospital group- responsibility for improvement and innovation
- Improvement lead for National Emergency Laparotomy Audit since 2015
- THIS Institute (University of Cambridge) Learning system COREs fellow
- Editor of RCoA 'Raising the Standards’ QI and audit compendium
- Previous anaesthetic department ACSA accreditation lead, 2016 to 2020
- Chair of Royal College of Anaesthetists QI working group from 2017-2023
- Carolyn is in the founding cohort of the Health Foundation Q community, connecting people skilled in improvement across the UK
- Carolyn was clinical lead of St Georges covid vaccine deployment and lead for SW London Covid Medicines Delivery Unit.
Professional profile
Qualifications: FRCA BM BCh MA (Oxon), PGCert Med Ed, PGCert H'care Mgmt
Carolyn trained in West Midlands and St George's schools of anaesthesia. She was a London Deanery Clinical Leadership ‘Darzi’ Fellow, leading range of improvement projects, and was an Improvement Faculty fellow of the NHS Institute of Innovation. She teaches regularly on local, regional and national courses. She is in the founding cohort of the Health Foundation/ NHS England Q community, connecting people skilled in improvement across the UK. She is the editor of the 4th edition of 'Raising the Standards, The RCoA QI compendium', and written the improvement chapter of Lee's synopsis of Anaesthesia, as well as a number of peer reviewed papers in quality improvement and emergency surgery care.