Dr Heather Duncan completed undergraduate education in South Africa and qualified in Paediatrics and Paediatric Intensive Care in the UK, following a Fellowship in Critical Care at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children in 2003.

She is a full-time Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant and Paediatric Intensive Care Associate Clinical Director (clinical lead) at Birmingham Children’s Hospital – the largest single-site Paediatric Intensive Care unit in the country.

Dr Duncan has broad research interests in clinical service development, quality improvement, risk reduction and innovation in healthcare, although her main focus has been on developing a Paediatric Early Warning system to reduce cardiac arrest.