'eBrochan'
The annual meeting of BCS Health Informatics Specialist Group Scotland.
With, for the first time, BCS Nursing Specialist Group, UK.
24th November at Glasgow Caledonian University
Speaker Biographies
Richard Hayward (Chair of Morning Session) I am a Senior Lecturer
in Adult Nursing at Canterbury Christ Church University with
specific responsibility for management
and health informatics teaching. My interest in the application
of technology to improve information management and therefore
the quality of care pre-dates the current interest and funding
of the subject. Other interests include the development of
professionalism in IT and the educational support required
by new practitioners. I have been the Chair of the Health
Informatics (Nursing) Specialist Group of the British Computer
Society for the last 2 years, a role that allows me to work
closely with colleagues with an interest in health informatics.
I also have a 4-year-old son - need I say more...
SESSION 1
: UPDATE ON eHEALTH STRATEGIES
 Heather Strachan
MSc Information Science, City University.
MBCS Professional Member of the British Computer Society
Dip N, Diploma in Nursing, London University.
RGN, Registered General Nurse
Heather Strachan is the eHealth Lead for Nursing, Midwifery
and Allied Health Professions in the Scottish Executive Health
Department. She trained as a nurse in Glasgow after which she
worked in Intensive Care Units at a number of London Hospitals
including St Mary’s Hospital and Westminster Hospital.
It was while she worked at Westminster Hospital, in the mid
1980s, that she developed an interest in health informatics
having worked on a project to develop computerised nurse care
planning, scheduling and workload systems. Later, Heather joined
the Information Department at Charing Cross Hospital in London
as a project manager. Heather has held a variety of posts, which
have involved management, practice development, research and
healthcare governance. Heather has Masters in Information Science
from London’s City University. She is a Professional Member
of the British Computer Society and a member of the Centre for
Health Informatics Research and Development. Heather is presently
Chair of the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics
Group in Scotland and an Honorary Member of the International
Medical Informatics Association Special Interest Group on Nursing
Informatics.
Heather's Presentation
(Download PDF)
 Ian Herbert
Ian is currently an independent health informatician, but started
his working life as a hydrologist/ computer analyst in Devon
in 1966. His introduction to healthcare was as a GP system designer,
and the prototype system – developed with Dr John Preece
at the University of Exeter – appeared on the BBC TV’s
Tomorrow’s World in 1978. He subsequently oversaw its
transformation into the Update Primary Care System. From 1989
until 2005 he worked for the NHS Information Management Centre
and then the NHS Information Authority, for much of the time
on the NHS Healthcare Model and its predecessor. His career
has encompassed a wide variety of applications in environmental
services, industry, the NHS and research in health informatics.
Ian has presented papers and posters at various local, national
and international conferences and has contributed material to
three books dealing with aspects of health informatics. Currently
he is vice-chair of the BCS Health Informatics Forum, on BCS
Council, a member of the BCS Primary Healthcare Specialist Group
Committee, convenor of its Clinical Computing special interest
group (CLICSIG) and one of the editors of its journal, Informatics
in Primary Care. His particular specialties are business analysis
and modelling, electronic message design, terminology and the
electronic patient record, and he has a special interest in
informatics in primary care.
Ian's Presentation (Download PDF)
SESSION 2: ENGAGING WITH TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGE
 Janette Bennet
MBCS MSc BSc (Hons) PgCM RGN
Janette is currently employed as Senior Clinical Advisor to
BT Health Executive NHS programmes. She initially commenced
her career as a nurse in the NHS 26 years earlier. In that time
she gained experience in a number of clinical areas and roles,
her last being that of Clinical Nurse Specialist in Intensive
and High Dependency Care. Janette also has management qualifications
and went on to develop, implement and project manage a trust
wide Integrated Clinical Information System. This experience
led to an informatics role at regional level. Janette is an
accredited PRINCE practitioner and has a Masters in Health Care
Policy and Organisation. This combination of theory and practice
has led to a deep understanding of the NHS, how it works, how
clinicians and management interact and how to bring about change
using IT as a catalyst and enabler.
Janette's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Liz Macdonald
Liz Macdonald is a Policy Manager at the Scottish Consumer
Council (SCC), with responsibility for health and social care
policy.
She has managed and carried out research in areas such as access
to primary care services, out of hours social care services
in Scotland, and public involvement in the health service. Current
areas of interest are public attitudes to electronic data sharing
in the NHS, and the public’s knowledge of their health
rights. Liz is also responsible for the Health Rights Information
Scotland project which is based at the SCC.
Liz's Presentation
(Download PDF)
SESSION 3: TELEMEDICINE,
TELEHEALTH, TELECARE
 Professor Frances Mair
Frances Mair is Professor of Primary
Care Research at the University of Glasgow. Previously, she
was Professor of Primary Care Research
at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Mersey Primary
Care Research and Development Consortium, one of the largest
primary care research networks in the United Kingdom. Her main
research interests include e-Health, particularly telehealthcare.
She has a specific interest in using new technologies as tools
in health care provision, particularly with the aim of optimising
the care provided to those in the community suffering from chronic
illness.
Her research in e-Health focuses upon studies of complex interventions
particularly relating to implementation and sustainability issues.
She has published widely and holds substantial grant funding
in these areas. Frances Mair is Immediate Past President of
the Royal Society of Medicine's Telemedicine and E-health Section
and a current member of the Royal Society working group exploring
the impact of information and communication technologies on
health and healthcare. Former associate editor of the Journal
of Telemedicine and Telecare and now an international advisor
for this same journal.
Frances' Presentation (Download PDF)
 Colin Jervis
Colin helps healthcare to create its future now.
In 20 years of servicing or working for the NHS he has led three
major programmes
of IT-enabled change. The
first was in St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington where Sir Alexander Fleming
discovered the penicillin mould. The second was at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
in Reading where a complete redesign of hospital processes was underpinned by
the procurement of Electronic Patient Record and PACS systems. The third was
at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where he was Interim
Director of IT.
When he was a small child his Mother lifted him each morning over the fence at
the bottom of their garden into his primary school yard to avoid the long walk
round to the school gate. Since that uplifting experience, he has been seeking
to solve all problems in a similarly effective and elegant manner.
Colin's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Kirsty MacLeod
BSc, RCN, RM, DPSCH (health visitor), MSC Medical Informatics.
Kirsty is a senior clinical nurse practitioner with 20 years of experience in a range of disciplines including Intensive Care, Midwifery Health Visiting/ Nurse Practitioner and Community Team Management Roles; latterly with a Clinical Leadership role in the development and implementation of a Community Nursing Information System.
Seconded for the past five years to the Scottish Executive Computing & IT eHealth Directorate as a Clinical e-Health Consultant and Strategic Programme Manager with particular responsibility for a number of key national strategic projects. Key achievements include:
- Successfully facilitating implementation of the national Electronic Clinical Communications Implementation Programme (ECCI).
- Development of, the national Access & Security Protocols for the key cornerstone products of the national eHealth strategy (SCI Stores & ECS).
- Development of, the NHS Scotland ECS Governance Protocol for cross boundary sharing of patient ECS information
- Scottish Executive Commissioner of the Emergency Care Summary Programme of work .
Earned a UK-wide reputation as a clinical lead amongst the e-Health IM&T and Clinical Leads Community, exemplified by a personal invitation to sit on NHS England's Connecting for Health Care Record Development Board.
Kirsty's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Mr
Sharon Levy (Chair of Afternoon session)
After completing his nurse training,
Sharon continued to develop his professional practice, in a
variety of community based care environments, whilst pursuing
further academic skills and qualifications. His last clinical role was
that of a Project Nurse where he was part of a team supporting the implementation
of
a computerised information system in all clinical areas of Perth and Kinross
NHS Trust. In 1999 Sharon moved to be based at the university of Abertay,
in
Dundee where he was teaching and working on his research thesis on remote
healthcare provision. Sharon joined the Royal College of Nursing in December
2002 as
an informatics adviser.
SESSION 4: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
 Ann Wales
I have managed a variety of NHS library services in
both England and Scotland over the past fourteen years. In my
current post
I lead the Knowledge Services
Group within NHS Education, with a national remit for establishing a strategic
and policy framework, together with practical tools and resources, to support
management of knowledge to support patient care and health improvement
across NHS Scotland. One of the team’s main areas of responsibility
is delivery of the NHS Scotland e-Library ( "http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk" )
- a national online knowledge service which aims to support healthcare
staff and partners in other sectors in clinical and managerial practice
and lifelong
learning. Delivering knowledge through technology goes hand in hand with
an equal focus on the human aspects of knowledge management, in particular
facilitating
the sharing of personal knowledge within communities of practice and knowledge
networks.
Ann's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Dickon Weir-Hughes
Dickon Weir-Hughes was appointed to the
Board of The Royal Marsden in November 1998 and is also Programme
Director of the National
Cancer Leadership programme
at The Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing & Rehabilitation. He
was formerly Assistant Director of Nursing at Chelsea & Westminster
Hospital, London. He held Charge Nurse posts at St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital, London and Atkinson Morley’s Hospital, London and was a
Flight Nurse for the international repatriation organisation, Europ Assistance.
The Royal Marsden, together with its' academic partner The Institute of
Cancer Research, is the largest comprehensive cancer centre in Europe.
In his current
role Dickon's key clinical achievements include developing the first nurse-led
in-patient Rehabilitation centre for cancer patients, several nurse consultant
posts, numerous aspects of process re-design and practice development and
developing and founding The Royal Marsden School of Cancer Nursing & Rehabilitation.
As a member a small team of Executive Directors Dickon was instrumental in enabling
The Royal Marsden to become one of the first ten Foundation Trust status in England.
The Royal Marsden is one of only two NHS hospitals in England to have received
the top score of ‘excellent’ for all its services in the nations
grading system and was also the joint winner of the Nursing Times Top Acute
hospital to work in, 2005.
Dickon has special interests in advanced nursing practice, nursing leadership,
health promotion, Nursing Diagnosis and theory development and nursing
informatics. His doctoral work has focused on advanced nursing practice.
He has presented
papers on these topics and been involved in providing consultancy in the
UK, Europe, Japan, Pakistan, the Middle East, North America and Scandinavia.
In early 2000, Dickon became a member of the Department of Health’s national
strategic group on leadership development and assumed the role of the ‘Leading
Light’ for the London Region. In this role he was responsible for facilitating
the development of leadership skills for clinicians throughout 97 trusts in London
and for cancer nurses throughout England. Dickon was a member of the NHS Workforce
Taskforce Board from 2001-2003. In 2001, he was honoured to serve as the nurse
adviser to the Wayne Jowett Inquiry. He is an Associate of the University of
Leeds, a visiting lecturer at the University of Fukui, Japan and is a member
of the Order of St. John, Fellow of The Royal Society of Health and Royal Society
of Medicine and is a Trustee of the Foundation of Nursing Studies. Dickon was
the first British nurse to be elected to the Board of the North American Nursing
Diagnosis Association (NANDA International) and is President Elect (2006 – 2008).
NANDA International has a worldwide membership. Dickon is 41 years old
and lives in Caterham-on-the-Hill, Surrey and Lacapelle-Biron (near Toulouse),
France with
his partner Simon, who is a Metropolitan Police Officer, and his police
dog,
Felon.
Dickon's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Derek Hoy
Derek Hoy is a Research Fellow in the Research Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Community Health, Glasgow Caledonian University.
He completed a first degree in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, before taking up nursing, and later returned to Edinburgh to do a MSc in Nursing Education.After clinical practice he went into teaching before specialising in informatics in 1990. He worked for the Department of Health in Scotland on health systems development and implementation, before joining the Research Centre in 1998.
Since then he has continued as an informatics consultant for the Scottish Executive, co-founder and chair of the European Summer School of Nursing Informatics, and involved in international standards work, mainly in terminology. Recent projects have included WISECARE, networking oncology nurses round Europe; modelling hip fracture services; a clinical Scenario Management System; knowledge mapping and topic mapping systems for NHS Scotland; and Community Information Standards work for NHS Scotland.
 Ian McNicol, MbChB
Having worked as a general practitioner in Clydebank for 14 years, Ian now splits his time between writing and supporting the Maclean McNicoll GP Accounts package and his health informatics consultancy. He cut his IT teeth in the very early years of GPASS and was, amongst others, responsible for development of the GPASS Cervical screening system. He has worked with the ECCI program and the social work/health eCare project and is currently a member of SCIMP. Ian’s research interest is the integration of narrative-based medicine with information technology and clinical decision support. Ian and Derek's Presentation (Download PDF)
 Margaret Hastings MBA, BA, FCSP
Has been a practicing physiotherapist
for 30 years specialising in Health Care of Older People.
In the past decade has had
a variety of general management roles
whilst maintaining service leadership. Was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered
Society of Physiotherapy in 1999 for work with developing AGILE and for professional
developments in Informatics. Graduated with MBA with distinction from Glasgow
Caledonian University in 2001. Since October 2004 has been part time with
Scottish Executive Health Department as AHP Information Development
Officer. While with
the SEHD she has worked with the national AHP Workforce project ensuring
that the information streams required for workforce activity
are in line with the
clinical data standards.
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