Dr Zuzanna Sawicka FRCP

Dr Zuzanna Sawicka is an acute and community consultant in elderly medicine at Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust. She is the clinical director for patient safety and clinical standards at the Royal College of Physicians. Zuzanna is passionate about the patient and staff voice, especially in keeping patient’s safe. She is committed to improving clinical standards, developing staff to achieve their full potential, and ensuring that patient’s get the right care at the right time in the right place and, where possible, that the care is delivered close to the place the person calls home. Through the years, Zuzanna has worked on many patient safety issues, from championing PJ paralysis to improving hospital pathways and now more recently led, and has advocated for, improved care in the community setting by implementing a Hospital at Home Programme locally, truly believing in that fact that little things matter. In today’s world, where in health and social care we face challenges, recurrent be