News and features
A round-up of presentations, articles, interviews and reports from workshops from a clinical engagement perspective.
2009
- "Bringing Technology into Practice": 2nd annual NHS CFH Health Professionals and Practitioners conference: this one-day event takes place at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, on Wednesday 2 December 2009 and is for healthcare scientists, allied health professionals, pharmacists and psychologists who are interested in the ways that informatics can enable us to provide better safer clinical services. Senior representatives from NHS Connecting for Health, the Department of Health and the NHS Information Centre will address delegates to connect current policy with practice. Those attending will also be encouraged to share examples of emerging best practice and discuss how IT can and does support innovation in practice. Please recommend this event to colleagues who you feel would like to attend. Book online and view the full draft agenda. For more details, email liz.kalaher@nhs.net.
- "Informing Shared Clinical Care": this report, commissioned by NHS Connecting for Health (NHS CFH), will provide key principles for Professional bodies as the first step towards creating guidelines for Shared Electronic patient records. The report was written by the Royal College of General Practitioners Informatics Group, who consulted over 30 different professional and patient stakeholder groups in order to achieve agreement and endorsement of the 16 principles. You can also view NHS CFH's supporting news statement.
- Developing Standards for the Structure and Content of Health Records: the Workshop Report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP): Download the report from the workshop commissioned by the Clinical Content Assurance Programme within Office of the Chief Clinical Officer (OCCO) to disseminate the methods adopted by the RCP Health Informatics Unit to get consensus in generating Record Keeping Standards (RKS) and to invite other clinical professions to identify priority areas of the Electronic Patient Record for their professions (e.g. nursing notes, clinic notes, day cases, specialist procedure notes, etc). (please note document is hosted on the RCP website)
2008
- Supporting care: the NHS before and after the National Programme for IT: watch excerpts from a short film, available on DVD, that shows key clinical figures within NHS Connecting for Health explaining how the National Programme for IT supports the delivery of care, helping both patients and staff.
- Annual Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare Professionals conference: find out more about this year's conference, to be held on Tuesday 17 June, plus booking details
2007
- Duncan's story - following a patient's journey: senior NHS Connecting for Health staff joined voluntary sector representatives in April 2007 to follow a patient's journey, using some of the technological advances made possible by the National Programme for IT.
- The future for information sharing in sexual and reproductive health: making IT work: The NHS Care Records Service will enable authorised clinicians to provide better care for their patients by sharing information about them. Yet maintaining confidentiality or anonymity may be of paramount importance to those seeking sexual and reproductive healthcare. Can these two be reconciled?
- Interview with Professor Michael Thick: the Chief Clinical Officer of NHS Connecting for Health openly discusses the challenges and priorities that lie ahead in his role.
- What's in I.T. for me?: Read about the joint BMA/NHS Connecting for Health conference at the NEC in Birmingham on 1 February 2007, attended by some 400 doctors.
2006
- Influencing design: how clinicians are working with NHS Connecting for Health in many different ways, to influence the design and development of systems
- Download the video of the autumn 2006 London forum: Dr Gillian Braunold and Prof Mike Pringle discuss the key elements of the National Programme for IT in relation to GP practices and progress to date, as well as the lively Q&A session.
- In autumn 2006 successful GP Engagement Forums, led by Professor Mike Pringle and Dr Gillian Braunold, National Clinical Leads for GPs, were held in eleven locations across England. In all, they were attended by some 900 GPs, practice managers and IM&T managers.
