PHCSG celebrate 40 years with online event

GP Computing – the First Ten Years 

4 February 2021 1800-2000  

To celebrate forty years since the foundation of the Primary Health Care Specialist Group, and the publication of the Royal College of GPs seminal paper ‘Computers in Primary Care’, we bring together a panel of experts who were closely involved in the early developments of medical computing. They will talk about the fun, the excitement, and the personalities of those heady days in general practice, as well as describe how and why we ended up with the primary care systems we have now. 

From the days before email and the Internet, topics under discussion will include the very early systems, the Micros for GPs project of 1982, the mass uptake with the ‘no-cost option’ systems, the development of clinical codes, and the use of complex data sets to improve patient care. 

To book your free place go to:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gp-computing-the-first-ten-years-tickets-137437891433 

Mediator

• Robert Treharne Jones, Clinical Director, LumiraDx Care Solutions Ltd Former GP; Medical Consultant AAH Meditel/Torex 

Panellists

• Cheryl Cowley CCIO, Black Pear Software Former Benefits Manager NHS Informatics DoH; Nurse Practitioner 
• David Markwell Education and Product Support - SNOMED International Former Principal Consultant - The Clinical Information Consultancy; Tech. Director, Abies Informatics 
• David Stables Trustee and CEO, Endeavour Health Charitable Trust
• Ewan Davis Senior Technical Architect, NHS Digital Former Chairman PHCSG; Founder AAH Meditel 
• Glyn Hayes President PHCSG Former GP; Medical Director, Torex Health 
• Ian Herbert Former System Analyst, Connecting for Health; Designer, ‘Update’ clinical system 
• Mike Bainbridge Portfolio informatician, Australia Former Clinical Architect, Connecting for Health; System Architect, System 6000/Synergy 
• Nick Booth Visiting Professor, Newcastle Univ. School of Computing Former Director, Clinical Data Standards, DoH; CIO, Great North Care Record 
• Sheila Teasdale Former Practice Manager; Director, PRIMIS 
• John Williams Senior clin. research fellow, Clin. Informatics and Health Outcomes Research Group, Oxford Univ. Former GP; National Clinical Safety Lead for GP2GP record transfer project 

The event is being organised by the Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) of the British Computer Society, who wish to acknowledge the hosting assistance of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI).