Speakers

Appointed in 2023, Professor Edward (Ted) Baker is the inaugural Chair of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).

He is a clinician and senior healthcare leader whose career has spanned clinical innovation, organisational transformation, and national patient safety reform. He specialised in paediatric cardiology at Guy’s Hospital, where his work established cardiac MRI as a non-invasive standard for children with congenital heart disease.

At Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, he held senior leadership roles, led the development of the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, and championed values-based leadership and safety initiatives later adopted nationally. In 2008, he led the Department of Health’s Commissioning Safe and Sustainable Specialised Paediatric Services report, influencing national planning of specialist children’s care.

Ted served as Chief Inspector of Hospitals at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) where he published the report Opening the Door to Change (2018), calling for a learning-centred patient-safety culture.

He was appointed CBE for services to healthcare in the 2026 New Year Honours List.