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Registration: 10:00
10.00
Start: 10:30
Registration and refreshments/networking opportunities
Close: 15:00
10.30
10.45
11.30
12.00
13.00
Introduction and welcome
TBC
TBC
Lunch
TBC
14.30
14.50
TBC
TBC
Faculty of Health Informatics
The NHS Faculty of Health Informatics is continuing to develop a national community of practice for 360+ professionals in health informatics learning and development, applied research and professional services.
Membership of the Faculty gives individuals the opportunity to acquire new skills and knowledge and have access to specialists and academics providing up to date and leading edge thinking in Health Informatics. Help shape the work and future direction of the Faculty and its learning and research programmes at www.informatics.nhs.uk/news/faculty.html
Workshop Background
We are delighted to have secured the services of Professor Martin Severs for our October Faculty Masterclass.
Professor Severs is one of the UK’s leading authorities on Data Standards and the impact that they can have on a Patient’s experience and to support the planning, delivery and assessment of the impact of healthcare across the full range of healthcare providers that patient’s come into contact with.
His interest in information standards has been ongoing for 12 years and is, in his words, ‘still growing’. His particular interest stems from their need to demonstrate utility in terms of interoperability at the technical, organisational and professional level. Martin ’s role within the NHS Information Standards Board [ISB] is part of the process whereby these different requirements are balanced. The Information Standards Board is an advisory
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board to the National Programme Board of the National Programme for IT.
Masterclass Event Aims and Objectives
Full details of the master class will be appearing in the neat future but in summary Martin will be:
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Critically reviewing the use and development of Data Standards across the NHS since its inception in
1948
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Summarising what impact Data Standards have had on the experience of Patients, Clinicians, and NHS
Managers in providing modern, effective healthcare
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Highlighting the key challenges and opportunities that the Information Standards Board are currently addressing
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Sharing his hopes for the future and the likely impact on Health Informatics, and for Health
Informaticians in the NHS.
Biography of Speaker
Professor Severs is the Associate Dean [Clinical Practice] in the Science Faculty in the University of Portsmouth.
He is a Professor of Health Care for Older People.
Born in Gainsborough, North Yorkshire, he qualified in Medicine in 1980 and became a
Consultant Geriatrician in Portsmouth in 1987. He is still a practicing Geriatrician and undertakes acute hospital work and as well as community rehabilitation and continuing care. He does his full share of on-call commitments.
During the last 15 years his career has developed academically and professionally.
Professionally his Royal College portfolio involves membership of numerous committees and working groups over the years including being the ex-chairman of the Academy of
Medical Royal Colleges Information Group. He co-wrote Learning to Manage Health
Information the de-facto standard syllabus for health informatics for the NHS. His most recent non-informatics work was as a member of the Inter-Collegiate Working Party report on Intermediate Care, which was published in Autumn 2002. He has chaired the NHS
Information Standards Board [ISB], which is the approval body for Health and Social Information Standards in the NHS since 2001. Also, he is one of the representatives of the NHS on the SNOMED International Authority
(The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine) that oversees the development of SNOMED Clinical Terms jointly between the NHS and the College of American Pathologists. He has been a General Manager in the NHS and a
Medical Director of a Local Trust. Academically his interests are in service development and evaluation. He is particularly interested in the use of systems theories to help assess, evaluate and design services. He came to the University of Portsmouth in May 1995 as Honorary Professor and in June 1997 became the Foundation
Professor of the School of Postgraduate Medicine, and Head of School. In 2002 he became the Head of the
Portsmouth Institute of Medicine Health and Social Care until January 2004 when he took up his current post.
Professor Severs is currently on secondment to the Department of Health where he has an assurance role concerned with information standards.
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All faculty members
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All people interested in data standards and their development
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A maximum number of 50 places are available and will be limited for each organisation and allocated on a first come, first served basis.
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This event has no other cost to eligible NHS staff/employees of NHS and contractor organisations
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This event is open to employees of NHS, contractor organisations and members of the NHS Faculty of HI.
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£250 cancellation fee.
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Date
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October 2007
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