Experience

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  Scunthorpe and goole hospitals

  Nov 1994 - Aug 2001

  Information manager

  Leading the Information Services for this successful NHS trust. Lead the development of a very successful data warehouse. Lead the introduction of Read Clinical Terms Version 3, the forerunner to SNOMED CT.

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  Humony

  Apr 2001 - Mar 2002

  Business consultant

  Promoting and supporting a Data Warehouse solution for Health Community management.

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  Nhs modernisation agency

  Aug 2002 - Aug 2004

  Information lead

  Enabled NHS organisations to understand how their waiting lists were behaving by developing a software modelling solution to report on waiting list management behaviour.

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  Nhs modernisation agency

  Oct 2004 - Aug 2005

  Knowledge lead

  Corporate lead for knowledge management in the NHS Modernisation agency

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  Nhs connecting for health

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2012

  Temporary role leading and directing the team developing a wide variety of data standards for the English health service, including the UK Terminology Centre Leading the development of a core generic model for Patient/Client Care Records; Developing a Logical Record Architecture for Healthcare using the best of SNOMED CT, HL7, ENV 13606 and OpenEHR and other appropriate standards. Connecting changes in English Healthcare Policy with the NHS Information Systems by managing the NHS Data Modelling and Dictionary Service at NHS Connecting for Health

  • Director of Data Standards and Products

    Oct 2010 - Sept 2012

  • Lead Architect - Logical Record

    Sept 2008 - Oct 2010

  • Content Manager - Data Model and Dictionary

    Sept 2005 - Aug 2008
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  Bsi

  Apr 2009 - now

  Enabling BSi to put forward a UK view on all health informatics standards developed in ISO, IEC, CEN and CENELEC. Lead the Committee to gain consensus in its formal deliberations;Ensure that a UK viewpoint is established on european and international standardization matters within the Committee’s purview, and that effective measures are in place for representing those views in the appropriate fora, andExercise judgement without bias, mindful of the far-reaching consequences that sometimes attach to a Committee’s decisions. Show less

  • Committee Chair - Information Technology Systems / Health Informatics

    Dec 2016 - now

  • Committee Member, Information Technology Systems / Health Informatics

    Apr 2009 - now
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  Cabinet office

  Nov 2011 - now

  Serving the Open Standards Board for UK Government as the chair of their data standards panel. Lets save millions of pounds by selecting and using open standards. Driving the progression of data standards through the development process for use across Government. They filter and refine the incoming proposals to form the final proposals for standards adoption. The initial focus is on standards was to support open data, including a scheme for Universal Resource Identifiers for Government open data and the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

  • Chair - Data Standards Panel

    May 2013 - now

  • Chair - Shadow Data Standards Panel

    Nov 2011 - May 2013
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  Snomed international

  Apr 2012 - Dec 2012

  Shaped the architecture for SNOMED International as an expert. Particular contribution to the tooling architecture, graphical representation of SNOMED CT concepts and their relationships and the representation of numeric values in SNOMED CT (Concrete Domains).Initiated the Clinical Information Modelling Initiative, now under HL7. Non-executive director of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, an international not-for-profit organization based in Denmark. IHTSDO owns and administers the rights to SNOMED CT and related terminology standards.

  • Technical Committee member

    Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  • Management Board representative for United Kingdom

    Apr 2012 - Oct 2012
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  Nhs england digital profession

  Apr 2013 - Jan 2022

  Establishing the Principles, Policies, architectural Patterns and Standards for health and care data in EnglandChair the Data Design Authority for health and care in EnglandDesigning the data architecture for care recordsBridging divides between - Information models and ontologies - Care delivery and performance management - Care quality and fundingWhat is best? Safe – interpreting the record, understanding the author’s intent; Effective – the record is easily consumed wherever it is written or shared; Secure – the record is only used by those who should have access, is accurately understood and is available whenever and wherever it is needed.I achieve this by - Setting International and English standards for care records and software, - Writing the statutory code of practice on confidential information - Leading the development of the clinical data architecture for England. Show less

  • Head of Clinical Data Architecture

    Jan 2017 - Jan 2022

  • Head of Information Standards

    Apr 2013 - Jan 2017
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  International quadball association

  Mar 2016 - Jan 2019

  Trustee and chair of the board of trustees

  Board member and from January 2017 to January 2018, Chair, bringing grip and control to the not for profit International Governing Body for the mixed gender contact sport of quidditch.

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  Nhs england

  Jan 2022 - now

  Lead architect

  Enabling people across the globe to be able to join up their health care by joining up their health care records.Working in the areas of semantic health care models, leading the revision of the ISO 13940 standard – A system of Concepts for the Continuity of Care and driving the architecture for standards and interoperability in the NHS in England.