Helen is an experienced researcher, writer and editor with over 30 years experience in the health and social care sector. As editor of BMJ Open Quality, Helen encourages better write-ups of improvement work and dissemination of the learning to improve quality of care and patient safety. She has an interest in wider approaches to quality of care and holistic approaches to healthy communities. She aims to make connections between projects, linking them to useful research, connecting people working in the same field, and those from different fields to make productive connections.