NUG Officers

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  Dr Charlie Stuart- Buttle

  Charlie is a GP in Kent . He introduced computers in his practice from scratch to become almost paperless (paper-light) He became involved in medical informatics in 1991 and gave up medical practice in 1992 to help co-ordinate the development of Version 3 of the Read Codes. Charlie became part of the senior management team at the UK National Health Service Centre for Coding and Classification as Director of Read Code Development. In 1998 he returned to general practice and joined the NUG committee in 2001. His particular areas of interest are clinical terminology, data quality and record structures. Charlie became NUG Chair in September 2007.

   
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  Dr Hasib Ur-Rub

  Hasib has been a GP since 1991.  He practices in Chislehurst, Kent.  His interest in GP IT started after the Practice installed EMIS in 1994.  He has been actively involved in GP IT development in Bromley since 1995 and has organised, been part of and chaired many committees in that time. He has been on the NUG committee since 1998 and Vice Chair since September 2007.

   
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  Dr Ralph Sullivan

  Past chair of the NUG, Ralph is a long-standing EMIS user – his practice was one of the first to install the system back in 1989 and he has been a member of the NUG committee since its foundation in 1991. He has been involved in many roles in the NUG from the outset. He was treasurer for seven years and chair from 1998 to 2001. He is now chair of the communications sub committee responsible for publishing EMISUser and the Handbook; he is also a member of the watchdog sub committee. He is a past chairman of his local user group, member of the NHS CfH Read Code Quality Assurance Group and Senior User on the NHS CfH PRIMIS Project Board. He is a GP trainer. In his spare time, Ralph enjoys family life with a houseful of teenagers in a small Yorkshire Dales village.
   
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  Mr Tom Kerr

  Tom is the Practice Manager at the Manor Street Surgery in Berkhamsted.Tom considers EMIS to be a valuable tool in General Practice and he views his role on the NUG committee as representing the non- clinical users of the system. An avid "armchair" sportsman, Tom restricts his physical activity to a lunch time jog along the Grand Union Canal, a bit of squash and keeping up with his young family.