Mr Tom Revington

Course Director for the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.

Module lead: Quality Improvement Science and Systems Analysis.

Biography

I studied biochemistry at Oxford in the 1990s, researching T Cell responses to HIV at the Institute for Molecular Medicine.  

I was a diplomat in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with a posting to Istanbul and a period running the briefing unit for government ministers negotiating at EU Council meetings.  

Between 2004 and 2014 I worked at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, supporting healthcare provider organisations to run large change programmes. Some of the areas I worked on were mergers between hospitals, reconfiguring services across primary and secondary care, local healthcare economy planning, clinical service strategy, quality and productivity improvement.

My focus was increasingly on developing the leadership and improvement capabilities of those organisations. Between 2012-14 I studied part time for an MSc in psychology, with a research dissertation investigating the factors that influence whether an individual motivated to make a significant behavioural change succeeded.

In 2016 I began teaching on the Surgical Science and Practice courses at Oxford University. I am now the Course Director and Module Lead for the Quality Improvement Science and Systems Analysis module.