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From: Morris, Michael [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 June 2007 11:53
To: Morris Michael (NHSmail)
Subject: ASSIST North West Branch Newsletter - July 2007
Welcome to the July 2007 update from the North West ASSIST Branch. The
purpose of this email is to bring you up to speed with developments and
future activities within the branch.
Future Branch Events
Thursday 12th July 2007
'NHS Networks - COINs, Wireless and New Technologies'
2.00 p.m., Wrightington Conference Centre (please note earlier start time
than originally advertised)
This session will cover the following topics:
1. The Vocera wireless project at Royal Liverpool Hospital (case study):
Tom Lanigan, IT Manager, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital
Trust
2. COINs in the North West - different approaches: Gus Hartley (North West
SHA) and John Billington (North Mersey HIS) - joined for a panel Q&A session
at the end by Anne-Marie Jones (North West SHA, ex-Greater Manchester SHA)
and Stephen Brooks (St Helens & Knowsley HIS)
3. New BT developments for NHS infrastructure (N3, VOIP, etc): Dave Smith,
Paul Bean and Jill Moon, BT Health and Rachel Dunscombe, NHS Connecting for
Health and Mike Hampson, N3 Cluster Manager - North West, NHS Connecting for
Health.
In order to book on this event, please click here select 'book me onto this
event'.
Tuesday 11th September 2007
'Informatics and the 18 week wait - Follow up workshop'
1.30 p.m., Wrightington Conference Centre
Professor Denis Protti returns for his annual lecture to the North West
ASSIST Branch, where he will facilitate an interactive workshop based around
Informatics and the 18 week wait target. Further details will be available
in due course.
In order to book on this event, please click here and select 'book me onto
this event'.
Thursday 4th October 2007
'SNOMED CT Pilot'
3 p.m., Neurosciences Lecture Theatre, Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation
Trust
The success of the clinical records elements of the National Programme for
IT in the NHS is very much dependent on the accuracy and consistency with
which clinicians describe patients' conditions. The bedrock of this is
Snomed CT: Systemised Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms. The latest
version of Snomed CT is being piloted in the North West, at Salford. This
meeting offers the opportunity to hear how the pilot is progressing and what
benefits Snomed CT brings to healthcare.
Speaker: Dr Bob Young, Consultant, Diabetes and Endocrinology Department,
Hope Hospital, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust.
In order to book on this event, please click here and select 'book me onto
this event'.
Dates for future events will be available shortly. If you have any ideas for
future events, please contact us and let us know your ideas.
The ASSIST North West Branch Committee would like to thank all those people
who responded to the Branch events survey at the end of last year. Feedback
from this survey is now being used to formulate plans for future events.
BCS Health Informatics (Northern) Specialist Group
The full programme of events for this group can be downloaded by clicking
here
Infocus Training Programme
Infocus provides an education and training programme for Health Informatics
Staff across the North West. Details of their training programme can be
viewed by clicking here.
CPD Scheme
The North West branch offers a CPD scheme for its members who attend branch
events throughout the year. Further details can be found on the CPD flyer,
which can be downloaded from the branch website.
All North West Branch events offer UKCHIP registrants the opportunity for
continuing professional development.
Branch website
The branch website is regularly kept up to date with information on future
events, copies of slides from previous events, minutes of branch meetings,
and a whole host of other resources. Do visit regularly to keep up to date
with developments across the branch.
Membership
Please feel free to pass on this e-mail to colleagues who are not yet a
member of ASSIST.
Membership of ASSIST is open to employees of health or social care
organisations with an interest in health informatics and to individuals
employed in providing informatics services to, or on behalf of, a health or
social care organisation for a greater proportion of their time. ASSIST
welcomes individual members from private organisations in the field of
health and social care on the understanding that this is not for the direct
pursuit of commercial activities.
The annual cost of individual membership is very reasonable at only £30.
Alternatively, five individuals from the same organisation can join ASSIST
as part of a group membership at £120, with every additional member charged
at £25. The membership year runs from 1st April to 31st March.
Further information on joining ASSIST, including application forms, is
available from the association's Internet web site www.bcs.org/assist.
Michael Morris
ASSIST Northwest Branch Secretary
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