Maria Dineen
Managing Director
Maria is a former midwife who took her first patient safety role in 1994 as perinatal outcomes analyst at the John Radcliffe in Oxford where she designed and implemented one of the first patient safety incident reporting and management systems in England. She also designed the 5×5 four-coloured risk matrix now used extensively across the NHS.
Before founding Consequence UK in 2001, her roles included Assessor on the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts, Clinical Risk Manager for Worcester Royal Infirmary, and Research Fellow at the Health Service Management Centre.
Since founding Consequence UK, Maria’s roles have included:
- guest lecturer on a range of Patient Safety Masters programmes for various academic institutions
- trainer to PHSO investigators in effective investigation techniques and human factors
- specialist advisor to CQC during its 2016 Death Review
- specialist advisor to the Regulation and Quality Improvement authority in Northern Ireland during its national review of how it reports, learns, and improves following patient safety incidents
- approved learning reviewer / investigator for NHS England
- approved educator for Lot 4A (Systems investigations), Lot 4B (Oversight) and Lot 4C (Engagement) for England’s Patient Safety Incident Review Framework.
In the early 2000’s Maria contributed to the NPSA’s RCA e-leaning tool kit content design, designed the prototype for the NPSA’s investigation guidance and framework, and is the author of Six Steps to RCA: Effective Investigating in Health and Social Care.
She regularly delivers investigation and learning review training, coaching and mentorship, in the health and social care sectors across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
She remains up to date in her own learning review and investigation practice by undertaking learning reviews on a co-production basis with individual providers, as an independent author for safeguarding reviews, and as a critical friend to NHS commissioners and providers.
