Laura Middleton Curran
Principal Clinical Psychologist
Dr Laura Middleton Curran is the Principal Clinical Psychologist for Inpatient Mental Health, Bedfordshire. She is a Quality Improvement (QI) Coach (2026/27 ICP Programme), and QI Project Leader (2025, ILP). Before training as a clinical psychologist, Laura was a Training Manager with experience of leading programme and project management.
Laura has a passion for service improvement and QI and is excited to support services to continually get better, with as much coproduction and consultation with service users and networks as possible. Starting out in mental health with a Peer Support team in Mind made people participation a core element of her practice and consideration.
Laura continues to develop her skills for QI via leading and coaching. This development is further supported by other work that she is passionate about such as mentoring for global majority aspiring clinical psychologists, and the East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) Bedfordshire and Luton Antiracism Steering Group. She has a keen interest in improving equity of access to services in all contexts of ELFT’s work.
A QI Coach role involves:
- Coaching QI teams within directorates, meeting with the team regularly
- Deeper knowledge of improvement methods and tools
Their responsibilities are:
- Help engage people and teams in QI
- Support project teams to develop ideas and strategy, using QI tools, and advise on how to complete project documentation
- Support project teams in using QI methodology, including PDSA cycles and data over time
- Provide monthly update on team progress to sponsor
- Teach and explain use of QI tools and methods
- Attend supervision with QI lead
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