APPLICANT - Imperial College London

Connecting for Health based at Hammersmith Hospital
Post 27
CODE: IMP/027
F1 Northwick Park Vascular Surgery 4m Medical Gastro 4m MAU 4m
F2 Hammersmith Acute Medicine 4m Renal 4m Connecting for 4m
Health
Post 28
CODE: IMP/028
F1 Northwick Park Medical Gastro 4m MAU 4m Vascular
Surgery
F2 Hammersmith Renal 4m Connecting for 4m Acute
Health
Medicine
4m
4m
Post 29
CODE: IMP/029
F1 Northwick Park MAU 4m Vascular Surgery 4m Medical 4m
Gastro
F2 Hammersmith Connecting for
Health
4m Acute Medicine 4m Renal 4m
The academic F2 year will be based at Hammersmith Hospital, and will include 4 months of
acute medicine, 4 months in renal medicine and 4 months in the Connecting for Health
programme.
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is delivering the National Programme for IT to bring
modern computer systems into the NHS in order to improve patient care and services. This
secondment will provide a unique and exceptional insight into the world of health informatics
in context of the most exciting development in this field globally.
Your role will include undertaking research about a clinical process, for example, ‘handover’,
as part of the ‘Common User Interface’. You will then work with others to achieve the
definitive guidance on how this clinical process is best computerised, and how that will fit in
with other clinical processes. Through this work you will have the potential opportunity to see
a wide range of healthcare settings, as well as attending workshops and conferences on IT
in health care. It will provide the opportunity to work with a diverse range of people from the
public and private sector, in a venture that explores some of the more strategic elements of
health care provision in the UK.
It is unlikely that another secondment in a relatively junior position would be able to provide
exposure to as many challenges or the use of such a broad range of skills (Project
management, inter-personal skill/communication development, IT knowledge, report writing,
conflict resolution – and clinical knowledge). There will be ample opportunity to pursue this
interest beyond the four month attachment.
Although there is a lot of exposure to other clinicians and the role demands good clinical
knowledge, this post will take you away from an intensive clinical setting for four months at
an early stage in your career, but this will be taken into account over the 12 month F2 period.
Dr Frank Cross
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Frank.Cross@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
www.stfs.org.uk/student/academic-programmes
Email: tfsacademicrecruitment@stfs.org.uk
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