NUG Committee

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  Dr Dai Evans

  Dai was secretary of the EMIS NUG for many years and is secretary of the Three Shires User Group (Staffs, Cheshire & North Derbyshire). Dai is primarily responsible for training workshops provided by the NUG. He is a GP in Staffordshire at an NHS IT Beacon site and currently a Research Fellow at Keele General Practice Research Network. His expertise in EMIS relates to searches, data quality & protocols. He is a climber, notorious for his sheep impersonations.
   
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  Miss Maggie Falshaw

  Maggie has been an EMIS user since 1990. When her practice first looked at the system there were only 30 practices using EMIS. She moved from her role as practice manager to that of researcher coordinator with the Healthy Eastenders Project, where part of her role was to support practices in the use of EMIS and to carry out comparative audits. The Project developed and now has the role of PRIMIS facilitation in east London. She moved back to being a practice manager seven years ago - again in Tower Hamlets. The changes over the intervening years are enormous, but EMIS is still central to our daily work. She had originally joined the EMIS NUG committee at its inception but has had a break of ten years.

   

   
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  Dr Chris Frith

  Chris has been a partner of a 3.5 doctor paper-frugal training practice in Hereford for 25 years. They have used EMIS for 10 years since the potential of the millennium bug allowed them to switch from AMSYS having initially used Microdoc. They are involved in developing patients’ access to their records. Consultation (chatting) skills and ergonomics (laziness) have motivated him, along with 17 sheep, 3 children and a good medical wife. He is also a medical officer for the city’s League 2 football club known as the Bulls.

   

   

   
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  Dr Mary Hawking

  Mary joined the NUG committee in 1994 following her practice’s 4 to 5 byte Read Code conversion, which revealed problems with Code conversion and data migration which are still unresolved 15 years later. She is currently on the Magazine and Education Committees. She has a long-standing interest in patient confidentiality and the use of patient-data - both identifiable and anonymised - used to improve the care of patients, individually and on a population basis, and the potential for conflict between confidentiality, patient care and even patient safety this can produce. 

  Recently she has become involved with the issues around data quality and record sharing - including the risks of single shared electronic records (SSEPRs) - In an environment where sharing information of unknown quality is increasingly necessary when individual patients may be managed in many different organisatons. Who is responsible - and for what? She won the John Perry Prize for her work on SSEPRs in 2009. Outside interests – water colours, antiquarian horology, bird watching – when time!

   

   

   

   

   
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  Dr Sara Hornibrook

  Dr Sara Hornibrook has been a full time partner at Leith Mount Surgery in Edinburgh for the last 16 years. She volunteered to sit on the NUG committee because she believes it's important that EMIS users in Scotland have a representative!

   

  Sara has used EMIS for approximately 14 years, initially LV and now PCS. She is delighted to be one of three practices in Edinburgh (all EMIS practices) who can offer on line booking of routine GP appointments to patients. Sara started up the local user group in Edinburgh, which sadly rarely meets now.

   

   She represents the practice for the North East Edinburgh Practice Reps Group and is a member of the North East Edinburgh Prescribing Task Group.

   
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  Dr Alison Hutton

  I am a GP in Manchester, and a user of EMIS since 1992, shortly after that I started the Local User Group in Manchester.  My medical interests include prescribing and chronic disease management.  I have represented GPs on various committees since the FHSA changed to PCGs to PCTs and now PBC groups.  I am on the LMC and was in the Chair for  four years. My hobbies include sailing a Laser dinghy, Tai Chi and a couple of skiing holidays each winter.

   
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  Dr Geoff Schrecker

  Geoff became a member of the NUG committee following election at the 2002 conference. He is a GP in Sheffield and has been an EMIS user since 1992 with a brief interlude in 94-96 when he was a microdoc user. He converted from LV to GV in 2001 and is still blinded by the experience. He is keen to work with EMIS to learn from the experience of GV and looks forward eagerly to PCS.

  Outside work, Geoff enjoys walking in the Derbyshire hills, especially if it ends with a good pint of bitter!

   
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  Dr Mark Walton

  Mark was an original committee member. He chairs the NUG website sub committee and manages the NUG web pages. He is also a member of the magazine sub-committee. Mark is a GP in Burnley , Lancashire . Mark is also the “official” photographer for NUG!!

   
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  Dr Janet Wright

  Janet is a GP in Hemel Hempstead. She joined the NUG committee in 1998, taking on the rewarding role of chair of the Watchdog sub-committee. Since Dec 2001 life has been more restricted than she would like due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome although, thankfully, some aspects of this are now back to normal. Outside work she enjoys her roles as auntie to six and step-grandmother to 3, leading to the opinion that being ‘Granny Janny’ is a rewarding way of using her limited energy.