NUG Committee

• 

  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.
   
• 

  Dr Chris Frith

  Having been at school in Loughborough whilst Dr James Read was developing his coding system in a practice in the town, Chris graduated from Birmingham and has been the senior partner of a 3.5 doctor training practice in Hereford for the last 16 years. They have used EMIS LV since the potential of the millennium bug allowed them to switch from Microdoc. He has been invited by Herefordshire PCT (the most southerly in the NW&WM cluster) to advise their IT strategy committee. He is also footy doc for the Bulls. Interests in consultation (chatting) skills and ergonomics (laziness) have motivated him, along with 23 sheep, 3 school-age children and a good medical wife.

   
• 

  Dr Mary Hawking

  Mary joined the NUG committee in 1994, and is currently on the Magazine committee. She has a long- standing interest in patient confidentiality and the ways in which the handling of patient identifiable information in the NHS affects general practice, legally, ethically and professionally. Recent developments in NPfIT, primary and secondary legislation and regulations associated with the re-organisation of the NHS have changed the situation considerably! Outside interests - water colours, antiquarian horology, bird watching - when time!

   
• 

  Dr Alison Hutton

  Alison is a GP in Manchester, and a user of EMIS since 1992. She started a local user group after visiting other groups in Stockport and Burnley and sensing that people could learn from each other. Medical interests include prescribing and chronic disease management. She has represented GPs on various committees since the FHSA changed to PCGs to PCTs and now PBC groups. Alison is on the LMC and has recently finished a 4 year spell as chair.
   
• 

  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!

   
• 

  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!!

   
• 

  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.