NUG Committee
Mr Mark Caulfield
Mark is Head of Information at Tower Hamlets PCT and EMIS Deployment Programme Manager; projects currently within the programme are EMIS Web community development, including the development of commissioning and clinical data sets, data pens for use within the community, interoperability with acute and local authority systems, the Map of Medicine – (Web integration phase 1) and EMIS PCS Dental.
Outside interests – plays watched and books discussed with friends and family and walking in the company of the same.
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.
Ms Julie Hill
Julie Hill is the Practice Manager of Cossington House Surgery, a five partner practice based in Canterbury. She has been using EMIS PCS since 2005 and prior to that was hospital based as a Biomedical Scientist using various different hospital and scientific equipment IT systems. Julie historically has been involved in testing various different pieces of IT equipment and software for GP surgeries on the Isle of Man and has become involved in the NUG so she can ensure that the Administrative staff in General Practice, who are heavy users of the none consultation related modules, provide input.
In her spare time she enjoys Scuba Diving, growing vegetables, reading, swimming and walking.
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.
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!
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.
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!