TL;DR: All the Conferences — Risk and Governance and Midlands Digital Skills Development. [week ending 22/09/2023] What did you learn? I joined colleagues on a trip to see the Leengate building, which will open next month for physiotherapy and orthotics teams alongside some of our outpatient clinics. This building has…

TL;DR: Visit to Catering team. CQC Report recognises NUH is improving. Progress on First Time Board CDIO programme. [week ending 15/09/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? Over the past few months I’ve been working with a few people on a First Time Board-Level CDIOs programme and…

TL;DR: Visits to Application Management, Voice and Data Delivery and Access and Training Teams. [week ending 08/09/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I met with Jamie and Beth from Mizaic. I’d worked with Jamie at KGH on our scanning contract (when the company was called IMMJ)…

TL;DR: Musing over disaster recovery/business continity. “interest Bingo” icebreaker. Considering implications of staff working overseas. [week ending 01/09/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I talked to Tom from our internal auditors about potential future audit work for the remainder of this year and into next. The…

TL;DR: Shadowing Patient Movement. Divisional Performance Meetings. Recording Desert Island Books for radio. [week ending 25/08/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I had a call with Aasiya, the Midlands Regional Director for Digital. I miss all of the regional catch ups as they clash with our…

TL;DR: Catching up after leave. Visiting Histopatholgy. Prioritisation matrices. [week ending 18/08/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I managed to join the national CIO weekly touch-base. This is something that I rarely get to join these days, and don’t manage to catch up on the recordings…

I’m now at 6 months into my role as Chief Digital & Information Officer at Nottingham University Hospitals. I use my weeknotes as a regular reflective discipline. However, this is an opportunity to take a longer look back, as I did in my previous role at UHN (see reflections at…

TL;DR: Demo of Hololens with DREEAM. Cloud, Data and AI workshop session. Performance Report improvements. A rare sighting of #InboxZero [week ending 21/07/2023] Who did you talk to outside of your organisation? I had a call with Guy from System C — the first time we’d talked since I joined…

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 it is now time to review progress at Q2. TL;DR: Most things under trajectory — been a hard year so far! >> Read 50…