Who am I ?
I’m part-time partner in a rural NHS General Practice in Scotland and part-time Clinical Informatician.
Since qualifying as GP from the the Aberdeen GP Vocational Training Scheme at the end of August 2005, I worked for about year in a range of rural, suburban and city centre practices in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, and for a similar length of time based in Glasgow working in the city as well as practices in the surrounding areas of Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, and Argyll. I returned to Aberdeen in August 2007 and completed a sequence of Maternity Locums, before moving to East Lothian in October 2009 to become a GP partner.
I am one of the first graduates from the combined MBBS and PhD programme at the Medical School of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne; intercalating a PhD between the pre-clinical and clinical stages of the MBBS course. I completed the distance learning MSc in Healthcare Informatics with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the University of Bath in December 2010.
From April 2011 to March 2020 I worked on a sessional basis with Scottish Clinical Information Management in Practice, working on a variety of projects including the Emergency Care Summary (ECS), the Key Information Summary, as well as collaborating with other SCIMP members to provide general health informatics advice to NHS Scotland. I have both a formal and practical grounding in Clinical Safety in information technology though work supporting the ongoing management of the ECS and a role on the GP IT change advisory board in NHS National Services Scotland.
In February 2013 I became and Primary Care eHealth Advisor for Scottish Government, becoming part of the Digital Health and Care Directorate in 2017. I provide both technical and domain expert advice to this directorate and other parts of Scottish Government and played a role in cohort identification for both COVID19 pandemic and also other vaccination transformation work in NHS Scotland.
I am a member of the Health Informatics Group of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a Member of the British Computer Society acting as chair of the Primary Health Care Specialst Group.