Hilary Wareing

Director of iPiP

Improving Performance in Practice

Biography

Hilary has a background in health service research and management as well as a clinical background in general nursing, midwifery and health visiting. Hilary’s main areas of interest are developing the wider public health workforce and supporting organisations to implement evidence-based practice and improve performance in practice. She is particular interested in using an asset-based approach in the development of public health initiatives and in gaining and maintaining compliance with public health policies and legislation.

The areas of work she is currently involved in includes utilising the understanding of organisational culture to improve performance in maternity setting, using storytelling to improve staff engagement plus developing and applying sector led improvement tools to support the commissioning and delivery of public health interventions.

Hilary led the development of babyClear, an evidence based whole-systems approach converting the evidence and guidance into practice that and is involved in the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan in secondary care and mental health settings.

She also has an interest in fuel poverty and is currently the Principal Investigator for a study focused on understanding the level of environmental carbon monoxide exposure during pregnancy.

Hilary is a member of the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge group, an Expert Advisor for the NICE Centre for Guidelines, a member of the ASH Advisory Council and the All Party Parliamentary CO Group’s (APPCOG) Healthcare Sub-Group and acts as an expert advisor to WHO Europe.