Matt is a front-line clinician and works as a consultant in Acute Medicine at Hampshire Hospitals. He is national clinical lead for deterioration and advisor for sepsis at NHS England and NHS Improvement. He is the Clinical Lead for Deterioration/Sepsis at Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative.

Matt is a renowned sepsis expert. 'An ongoing problem in this field has been the lack of a sepsis test - meaning measuring episodes, deaths, improvement and costs is challenging'. He developed a proxy, reasoning that you cannot develop sepsis without an infection, and that by measuring this population instead, we could gain useful insight into sepsis. The led to a dashboard that is in use across the UK. He is currently exploring the machine learning opportunities within this, linked to climate.
Read more on Matt's idea here: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/6/e014885.info

Matt has also developed a long-term national plan and supporting structures to improve processes in the recognition, escalation, communication and response to the deteriorating patient in all care settings. To this end, he is working on a single language of sickness and communication between healthcare professionals across the whole patient pathway, seeking to align policies and directives across the system, and establish standardised metrics. He has co designed free apps on deterioration for clinicians and e-learning resources that have been extensively downloaded by NHS workers.
Read more here: https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1260