Bill Kilvington

Qualifying at St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1980 he has been a member of the Professional Council of the College of Operating Department Practitioners for forty years. Immediate past President and now Patient Safety Lead. Bill served as Chair of the Council for nine years from 1991 and was the first ODP President of CODP, serving fifteen years from 2002. Bill played a key role in the development of the ODP as a profession, including Registration with the HCPC in 2004 and recently leading the Colleges’ submission whereby ODPs joined the AHP family in 2017. As an advocate of patient safety, he represented the profession on the Surgical Never Events Taskforce, chairing a writing group that produced the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs), continuing as a member of NHSI’s Never Events Focus Groups. Bill is a Trustee of the charity Action Against Medical Accidents - AvMA.org.uk In 2018 the Royal College of Anaesthetists recognised his contribution to the development of the ODP Profession and patient safety, conferring its highest award of Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College, FRCA. And in 2022 he became an Honorary Doctor at Birmingham City University. Bill has worked for the NHS for forty-six years, forty-five as an ODP - student and qualified. He recently returned from a brief retirement to the role of Divisional Director for Women and Child Health Services at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust where he is proud to be an ODP and a member of #WeAHPs in the role.