TL;DR: Scan4Safety visit to Hull. Visit to Microbiology. Digital and Information Strategy one step closer to final approval. [week ending 01/12/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? A group of us had an excellent conversation with Vicky from NHSE about the steps that the organisation would go…

TL;DR: Service disruptions. Time with Strategy, Contracts and Admin team. CIO Watercooler. Articulating prioritisation. [week ending 24/11/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I had my regular meeting with Simon from Clinisys. The project to upgrade our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for Pathology hasn’t been without…

TL;DR: NHS Providers Conference. New facilitation techniques. Energised by financial challenge opportunities. [week ending 17/11/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? This week was one of those ones that come along now and then, where I was out of the office quite a bit. I started the…

TL;DR: What does it take to keep the lights on? Standardise, Centralise and Digitise — Principles or Programme? [week ending 10/11/2023] A bit behind, so this is a brief catch up. Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? A few of us who were part of the First…

TL;DR: Visiting the NUH Laundry. Two Awards for NUH. Supplier meetings. [week ending 27/10/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I met Guy from System C in the first our agreed series of quarterly meetings. This was the first time we’d met since I’ve been at NUH…

TL;DR: Black History Month: Celebration Event and talking about White Fragility book. Visit to Alder Hey. EPR Business Case revision. [week ending 20/10/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation?. What would you have liked to do more of? This week was the third session of the Black…

TL;DR: Cohort 1 was a success! We all learnt new things. Maxim: Take away the things that a chicken could do. We’re planning for Cohort 2. Background At some point during 2022, the Group Chief Finance Officer at UHN went on a “First-Time CFO programme” run by the HFMA. This was…

TL;DR: Visit to NTU, Maternity and Abbeyfields. Time with the EPR team. NUH Awards. Disappointment about White Fragily book discussion. [week ending 13/10/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I met with Amanda, the CIO from Nottingham Trent University. We’d worked together back in NHS Digital days…

Here we go again. As has become my pattern at year end, I set out some personal goals for 2023. I checked in at Q1, and Q2 and it is now time to review progress at Q3. TL;DR: Starting to make progress after a poor start to the year. …