Professor Sir Ian Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at UCL. He is a Patron of the Clinical Human Factors Group, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Doctor of Law. He is an Honorary Fellow of 6 Royal Colleges, including the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He has written extensively on health and healthcare, including his 1980 Reith Lectures, and has chaired a number of Inquiries, including into the deaths of children at Bristol Royal Infirmary where the Report recommended a systems approach to things going wrong and the use of human factors analysis.