TL;DR: Building links with local Unis. The importance of the CCIO community. Inaugural Midlands Digital Health Skills Development Network Conference. UK CIO 100 Awards. Career Conversations. [week ending 24/09/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? Loads of people — this week it was the Midlands Digital Health…

TL;DR: Shadowing Housekeeping team. What to do about the KGH data centre. NCR goes live. Digital Hospital Committee. [week ending 16/09/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? …

TL;DR: Using a meeting to edit Terms of Reference is bad. Reconnection after Cyber Security Attack. Shortlisting ICS Digital Lead role. [week ending 09/09/2022] I did consider not doing this weeknote, given the period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II that commenced on Friday, but made my own conclusion that…

TL;DR: Back from holidays. Digital restucture delay. Cyber Security event continues. Relentless NHSE data requests. [week ending 26/08/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I joined the Local Resiliance Forum meeting. This is an informal group of the public bodies across Northamptonshire discussing Cyber Security. This was…

TL;DR: Back from leave. Cyber Security Incident. Visiting Pathology Labs at NGH. [week ending 12/08/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I met with the Managing Director for Healthcare at System C — a rare face to face meeting at that! …

TL;DR: KGH next phase EPR Business Case signed off. NGH EPR Business Case one step nearer. [week ending 22/07/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? Normal week where I joined the national CIO check in and the Midlands CIO call. What would you have liked to do…

TL;DR: More EPR Business Case stuff. Digital Health Summer School. [week ending 15/07/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? Loads of people at the Digital Health Summer School in York (see later). Simon and I met with Tim Ferris and his team to talk about the NGH…

TL;DR: Updating winter modelling. HPN South Conference. NGH EPR Business Case feedback. [week ending 08/07/2022] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I met loads of people at the Healthcare Partnership Network South Conference — more about that later. I chaired the ICS Digital Transformation Board and also…

I’ve done this for a few years now. At the end of 2021, I set out some personal goals for 2022. It’s now time to review progress at Q2. TL;DR: Cycling back on track, reading going ok and wrote a simple bit of software. >> Read 50 books. Slightly under…