The BCS Health Informatics Interactive Care Specialist Group has arranged a meeting on the evening of Thursday 12 October at the BCS London Offices.   

 

The speaker will be Dr Mark Ferrar, Director of Infrastructure, NHS Connecting for Health who will be speaking on the approach being taken within the National Programme to Telemedicine and Telecare.

 

The meeting is free and open to all.  It will start at 6pm with refreshments available from 5:30.  Please pass this notice on to any colleagues who may be interested.

 

This a very rare opportunity to hear about work, including research into the development of wireless health equipment in the home, that Connecting for Health has been undertaking. 

 

As Director of Infrastructure within the Technology Office of NHS Connecting for Health, Mark's current role covers both infrastructure and information governance / IT security responsibilities.  In addition to Telemedicine/Telecare, the infrastructure directorate covers strategy and architecture for large national programmes such as NHSmail and the N3 network.  It also embraces provision of a wide range of technical guidance throughout the NHS.

 

Mark joined the NHS in September 2004 after 17 years with ICI, the international chemicals and paints company, where he held a variety of IT management and architecture roles until becoming Global Infrastructure Manager in the Office of the Global CIO.

 

In order to meet the BCS security requirements and to ensure that we order sufficient food, please email Ian Jardine  (ian@... and to whom this is copied) if you are planning to attend. (If you arrive later than 6.00 pm, you may need to ring the buzzer by the main door, make your way to the back entrance on Exeter Street and wait for those working on BCS reception to come down to let you in.)

 

Venue: 

 

BCS London Offices

Davidson Building,

5 Southampton Street,

WC2E 7HA