In the first of a series of articles focusing on the people behind NHS Informatics, Joe Fernandez interviews Peter Knight, managing director of clinical support services and asset management at Winchester & Eastleigh NHS Trust.
Peter Knight has been working hard at Winchester to ensure the trust continues to be a leader in its use of information technology to support patient services. He has led the trust’s move onto the Cerner Millennium Release 0 patient administration system – the first with order communications under the NHS IT programme, PACS, the EuroKing E3 maternity information system and Touchpaper IT Helpdesk software. Here, we get an insight into the man behind the transformation.
What’s the first thing you do when you get into the office?
I plug in my laptop and update my emails
Your favourite gadget at the moment?
My BlackBerry, as I have found it so useful when travelling and it’s the first e-mail device that really works on the move.
What’s the best thing about your job?
Delivering a complex set of services and making them work well, with a good team of people.
Favourite book/song ?
Book – ‘The Clouds’ Plato, Song – Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd
What is your pet hate?
The use of slang words in everyday conversation
What’s your favourite website?
www.bbc.co.uk
What annoys you?
Not a lot!
In a perfect world, what would you be doing?
I would be a lawyer
What’s caught your eye recently?
All of the political changes that are happening in the UK
Which e-Health innovation interests you at the moment?
The key one is the use of clinical tablet PCs for ward rounds and the like. These could provide a good breakthrough on real-time clinical records management.
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