Colin Quick

Chief Quality Officer (Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control)

Priory Group

Colin has worked in nursing since 1992, initially as a nursing assistant, then completing his registered nurse training in 1998. Since then, he has worked across a number of NHS and independent sector providers, as well as serving as a nursing officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF). In his career, he has held both operational and professional leadership roles covering community and inpatient services within mental health, learning disability and physical care services.

Colin joined Priory in 2019, and so is now the Chief Nurse and Quality Officer for the UK’s largest provider of Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism services. In addition to this he also sits on the National Mental Health and Learning Disability Directors of Nursing Council and is the Editor of Leading Minds; the journal of that body.