Just to remind you about the BCS Primary Health Care Group's Annual
Conference which takes places on 9 and 10 September.
This year from CfH we have Gordon Hextall - Chief Operating Officer, Prof.
Mike Pringle (one of the clinical leads from primary care) and members of
the GP-GP record transfer team.
We hope to hear the latest on GP Choice, work on the National Care Record
Service (particularly around consent and confidentiality and summary
records) and the latest on GP-GP (Including a demonstration of at least one
implementation)
The conference title is:
"Architecture and Structure; a Blueprint for the Future"
As well as the above speakers include:
Dr John Fox - Cancer Research UK
Dr Claudia Pagliari - Senior Lecturer in Primary Care - University of
Edinburgh
Dr Paul Voskuijl - NHG, Dutch College of General Practitioners
Ian Herbert - Vice Chairman BCS Health Informatics Forum and Independent
Consultant.
Sheila Teasdale - PRIMIS Service Director, University of Nottingham
Jeremy van Vlymen, Dr Simon de Lusignan, Judas Robinson and Patty Kostkova -
St George's University of London
The event also includes workshops on: The NHS Drugs and Devices Database
(DM+D), Distributed Architectures and System Interoperability and Summary
Records. All led by experts in each of these fields who are well informed on
both the broad issues and the specific CfH positions on these matters.
Workshop leads are:
Jo Goulding - NHS CfH
Ian Shepherd - Independent Consultant
Ian Herbert - Vice Chairman BCS Health Informatics Forum and Independent
Consultant.
Dr Pete Horsfield - GP Adviser to CfH National Clinical Leads,
The event provides a valuable learning and networking opportunity in a very
pleasant environment at Downing College. This year we are please to have
Simon Davies from the London School of Economics as our after dinner
speaker. Simon is at the heart of the current debate on ID Cards and should
provide some interesting insights.
Full programme and online booking at www.phcsg.org
Ewan Davis - Director - Woodcote Consulting
- Chairman - British Computer Society - Primary Health
Care Specialist Group
See our website at www.woodcote-consulting.com
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