Professor Rob Galloway

Rob works as an emergency medicine consultant at University Hospitals, Sussex. He has a long-standing interest in workforce, rostering and how systems either support or undermine clinicians at work. Alongside his clinical role, he is co-founder of HealthRota, which was developed in response to the real, everyday failures of traditional medical rotas; unsafe gaps, poor transparency, burnout, and a complete mismatch between how doctors actually work and how rotas are designed.

HealthRota is now used by thousands of clinicians across the NHS and and has been recognised for its impact on patient safety, staff wellbeing and cost reduction. The work has won multiple awards and has been highlighted nationally and internationally as an example of how better workforce design can improve both care and morale.

His broader work focuses on human factors, patient safety, and the idea that if we want safer healthcare, we have to stop treating staffing as an administrative problem and start treating it as a core clinical intervention.

Outside of workforce design, Rob's work spans clinical practice, education, writing and advisory roles. He is a professor at Brighton and Sussex Medical School with interests in patient safety, human factors and clinical decision-making. He works as a medical advisor to Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, focusing on medical governance and high-performance risk management, and he writes regularly for the Daily Mail on health, medicine and longevity. 

He is also the author of In Stitches, written under the pseudonym Dr Nick Edwards, which reflects on the realities of frontline NHS care and the human impact of healthcare systems.