This work includes liaising with midwives from across England regarding their specific needs around electronic patient records, the importance of NHS numbers and other areas of the NHS national IT infrastructure.

Priority projects for 2012

• The Clinical Division works as a team of senior experience clinical informaticians led by Dr Charles Gutteridge, National Clinical Director of Informatics, Dr Susan Hamer as Director for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Care Professionals and Dr Simon Eccles, Medical Director.  For a regular update, sign up for Clinical Connections
• Working with the Clinical Division National Clinical Leads Forum
• Sitting on the Maternity and Childrens Dataset Implementation Group
• Creating a communications network with and for midwives 
• Raising the profile of informatics within the nursing and midwifery community for both undergraduate skills and post graduate knowledge and application, with clinical systems wherever nurses and midwives practice their Art and Science of Healthcare Studies.

Clinical engagement

The team of national clinical leads provide expertise across a variety of specialties and consult on the planning and preparation of national services. This means communications and consultations between Department of Health directorates and NHS Connecting for Health, which is managing national 'informatics products and services' such as:

• Choose  and Book                                                                                                      
• NHS Choices
• Picture Archiving and Communication System
• Summary Care Record
• Electronic Prescription Service                
• Interoperability toolkit                         
• Clinical Safety                               
• Informatics Capability                      

Historical publications and presentations

• What makes the NHS Number the ten most important digits within healthcare
• Midwives and NHS Connecting for Health (PDF, 262Kb)  

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