Enter the CCG: more thoughts on what hospitals can learn from primary care IT
With the publication of the Wachter Review, Dr John Lockley has been thinking about what secondary care could learn from primary care’s experience of digitisation. This month: what gets clinicians engaged.
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Enter the CCG: on evidence based management
In his previous column, John Lockley noted that there is often a disconnect between “the centre” of the NHS and the frontline. This can be overcome, he argues, but only if managers embrace honest data collection and upward reporting.
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Enter the CCG: on the ice shelf
John Lockley reviews some recent columns and finds a common theme; a worrying disconnect between the top of the NHS and the frontline.
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Enter the CCG: on Patient Online
John Lockley is worried about the Patient Online programme – and just how much work making the full GP record available to patients could entail.
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Enter the CCG: on the Enigma of the NHS
John Lockley has been on a bank holiday trip to Bletchley Park; and concluded that one of its less-sung heroes has important lessons for the NHS.
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Enter the CCG: on IG, security, and the fear of being shot
Dr John Lockley chaired a conference on the vexed and difficult questions of information governance and cyber-security; and found that some simple ideas fell out of it.
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Enter the CCG: on the snail at the backdoor
John Lockley worries that the NHS is going down the line of centralised, expensive ‘solutions’ to cybercrime, when what it needs is up to date systems, better training – and the money to pay for them – on the ground.
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Enter the CCG: on what NHS IT can learn from Google
GP John Lockley points out that people use Google because it works; while they use NHS software because they have to or are ‘incentivised’ to. This, he adds, needs to change.
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Enter the CCG: deals with conflicts of interest
Dr John Lockley argues that conflicts of interest are inevitable. It’s how you deal with them – and whether you make them work for all concerned – that counts.
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Enter the CCG: tackles spaghetti systems
As a programmer, John Lockley was inspired by computing pioneers who wanted to keep things simple. Now, as a GP and CCG member, he thinks it’s time for the NHS to absorb the same thinking.
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