Dear Rosemary,
Nice to speak to you - I gather that we can confirm Muir's availability to
speak
on Jan 19th.
Below is a message I have circulated, with an attached leaftlet.
I would be most grateful if you could pass on either or both via
the contact lists for NELH etc., and perhaps put it on the noticeboards in the
building?
Many thanks,
Colin Gordon
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Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the British Medical Informatics Society,
I would like to cordially invite you to a one-day meeting:
Information for Health in the New NHS: The New Strategy And Medical
Informatics In The NHS
January 19th 1999: 9.30 - 5.00
Paul Wood Lecture Theatre
National Heart and Lung Institute
Cale St, London SW3
On 24 September 1998 the Government published 'Information for Health:
an Information Strategy for the Modern NHS'
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together members of the medical
informatics unity in the NHS Trust sector, domain experts and clinical
IT users to discuss how to respond to the challenges and opportunities
Information for Health will be offering over the coming period.
Some of the questions this meeting is expected to discuss…
· GP links - the Government has committed to a massive investment in GP
links: what do the hospitals have to do, and what can they gain?
· NHS Terms (alias Read Codes) - will they work in the hospital sector?
What is the evidence from their use so far? Are they on course to meet
the challenge? Are systems suppliers ready to support using them? When
will the NHSE start seriously twisting the Trusts' arms to use them?
· 'New NHS', 'Clinical Governance' - is this a revolution in hospital
management? Will it revolutionise the role of IM&T services within Trusts?
Who will lead the changes?
· 'Clinical Governance' in practice - what is already happening on the ground,
what is planned? [care pathways / protocols / ordering and requesting /
clinical audit / knowledge services… ]
· The new external forces for change in the Trust sector [NICE, CHE,
Health Improvement Plans…] - how will they affect policy and priorities for
IM&T?
· Hospitals and the National Electronic Library of Health - do they
have a role as knowledge providers, do they have a voice as knowledge users?
· Medical Informatics as a profession in the NHS - has the NHS recognised
it needs one? If so, what role does it see for professional societies and
institutes [BMIS; BCS; UK-IHI; … ] ?
Speakers confirmed so far include:
· David Robinson, NHS Centre for Coding and Classification, will speak
about the recent developments in the NHS Clinical Terms relevant to
their implementation in the NHS hospital sector.
· Muir Gray, Director of Research and Development, NHS Executive Anglia
and Oxford, will speak about the role of the National Electronic Library
of Health.
· Jo Milan, Head of IM&T, Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust, will put
a Trust IM&T view on NHS Codes implementation and other issues.
· Ian Purves (Chair, Joint Computer of the RCGP and GMSC), will speak
(subject to confirmed availability) about the demands on Trusts from
the primary care sector which the Strategy is geared to satisfy.
· Peter Drury, NHS Executive, will set out the centre's vision on how
the strategy will take shape in the NHS Trusts.
"The purpose of this information strategy is to ensure information is
used to help patients receive the best possible care. The strategy will
enable NHS professionals to have the information they need both to
provide that care and to play their part in improving the public's health.
The strategy also aims to ensure that patients, carers and the public have
the information necessary to make decisions about their own treatment and
care, and to influence the shape of health services generally."
- Information for Health : www.imt4nhs.exec.nhs.uk
This is expected to be a well attended and lively meeting on developments
in the NHS which many hope will bring historic steps forward for the
practical role of medical informatics in healthcare.
A leaflet with booking form is attached; there is a web page on the
meeting at:
http://www.rbh.nthames.nhs.uk/workshop/Bmis.htm
Registration fees:
BMiS member £25.00
Non-BMiS member £35.00
Student £15.00
Multiple corporate bookings £20.00/person
If you would care to pass this on to any appropriate email list or lisserver,
or can link the page to your website, we would be most grateful.
Kind regards,
Colin Gordon
Project Manager, PRESTIGE
Honorary Treasurer, British Medical Informatics Society
Information Services
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
Sydney Street
London SW3 6NP
Tel +44 171 351 8706
Fax +44 171 351 8781 !NOTE NEW NUMBER
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