The PQIP Team

Dr. Nasa is a CR&I Research Fellow in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital, Plymouth, UK. He has over 20 years of experience in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine across tertiary healthcare institutions in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and India.

Dr. Nasa has an H-index of 27 with over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has authored more than 50 book chapters on topics related to Critical Care Medicine, IV fluids, Mechanical Ventilation, and Sepsis. His contributions to healthcare research were recognised with the UAE Excellence in Healthcare Research Award (2023–2024). He is the co-editor of the book “Rational Use of IV Fluids in Critically Ill Patients”. He also serves as an Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine and is the Section Lead for Delphi Studies within the PROVE Network (Netherlands).

His areas of research are Perioperative mechanical ventilation and ARDS and Fluid Stewardship and Abdominal Compartment Syndrome.

James is a specialty trainee in anaesthesia in the North East of England with clinical and academic interests in perioperative medicine and major surgery. Following an NIHR, anaesthesia-focused clinical fellowship on preoperative exercise testing and training, he completed his PhD, centred on the co-design, development and feasibility testing of a digitally facilitated, multi-behavioural prehabilitation programme.

As PQIP fellow, his research was focused on the association of socioeconomic position with preoperative characteristics of participants. He has continued to develop this work as a member of the NIHR HIPPOCRATES study team, involving the co-design and testing of perioperative interventions to improve outcomes for patients from more deprived backgrounds.

Duncan helped set up PQIP and completed a PhD exploring how PQIP data were used for local quality improvement. He is now a consultant anaesthetist at UCLH and honorary associate professor at UCL.

He is currently using mixed-methods to study quality improvement in critical care in low and middle-income countries, healthcare inequalities in perioperative care in the UK and the adequacy of neuraxial anaesthesia during caesarean deliveries.

Jose is the Head of Research at the Royal College of Anaesthetists, looking after departmental strategy, budgets, projects and managing the wider team.

He oversees the Centre for Research & Improvement (CRI) and the National Institute for Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA) and projects such as the National Audit Projects (NAPs), the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA), the Sprint National Anaesthesia projects (SNAPs) and National Clinical Audit of Perioperative Care (NCAPC).

Chloe is the PQIP coordinator. She oversees the operations and administration of the project. She is responsible for the reporting, ethics approvals and study modifications, recruitment of new trusts and boards, as well as contractual and quality assurance activities.

She has extensive experience in data analytics, both within the private and not-for-profit sectors in Sydney and Paris. Before joining Research, she worked closely with RCoA examiners and oversaw the front-to-end delivery of the RCoA's FRCA Primary MCQ and Final CRQ examinations.

Natalie is the project assistant for PQIP, supporting participating sites by problem shooting queries and navigation of the webtool. She assists clinical teams and local investigators by ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day study operations. 

She is well versed in the research space, coming to the RCoA with a background in consumer research in the private sector. 

Please get in touch with Natalie in the first instance for questions about the project at pqip@rcoa.ac.uk