Patient Safety – who cares?!

BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG)

Summer Conference 2009

29^th June – 1^st July at Chesford Grange Warwickshire

Computerised information systems used in clinical practice have contributed greatly over recent years in reducing the potential for harm to patients and associated costs. Increasingly, these systems that have generally been used stand alone are required to integrate with systems from other vendors through data sharing, to streamline the delivery of extended patient care and to protect existing IT systems investment.

 

Making systems interoperable in this way requires a ‘safety critical’ approach to the broader sharing of clinical and administrative data held on individual patients. Inevitably this increase in sharing - over distance and across disciplines - has the potential to introduce significant ‘new’ risks for patients.

 

Ensuring that we maximise the benefits while minimising any risks requires an appropriate understanding of all the issues and careful implementation of health informatics systems and processes.

 

Attending the BCS Primary Healthcare Specialist Group Summer Conference will provide you with practical advice on how to embrace interoperable systems and will expose you to the Groups 30 years experience in the use of clinical systems in primary care.

 

Keynote speakers include:

- Dr Leo Fogarty, Clinical Safety Officer Summary Care Record – NHS CFH
- Martin Ellis, Head of Clinical Risk Management – BT Health
- Dr Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Architect – NHS CFH
- Andrew Pearson, Consultant Epidemiologist - Health Protection Agency
- Dave Roberts, Programme Head – non-acute care – NHS IC

 

Hear also from leading thinkers and practitioners in clinical systems interoperability and join with others to contribute your own knowledge and experience to this challenging area.

 

The event is supported by an exhibition, which features many of the established IT suppliers to primary care alongside suppliers with exciting new products and services.  It attracts a wide group of people including GP’s, other practice staff, nurses and allied health professionals, ICT staff, PCT staff, system suppliers and researchers.

 

More information available on our web site at www.phcsg.org or contact Jill Riley on +44(0)1905 727461 or email jill@...

 

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