Joint Meeting: BCS Health Northern Specialist Group & BCS West Yorkshire Branch

Information Services leading to better Mental Health Care for Patients

Speakers:

• Matthew Watkins, Deputy Head, Information and Knowledge Services, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
• Tony Middleton, Head of Informatics, Bradford District Care Trust

Venue: Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9EN

Pizza and light refreshments from 5:45 pm, Talk 6:30 pm

Mental Health IT is an area of NHS IT that is often overlooked but which has benefited more than others during the later years of the National Programme for IT in Health. Despite problems with some parts of the National Programme, innovation in Mental Health has flourished with the need to liaise closely with acute and community health care, primary care, social care and even the police. But with innovation and new technology, such as mobile computing and shared record access, come new management and information governance issues.

The speakers will describe how IT is being used to improve the delivery of mental health and learning disability services across a large part of Yorkshire, from Airedale and Bradford, through Leeds, to York, Selby and beyond.

Matthew Watkins’ theme will be “Leading Informatics Services in Interesting Times”. Matthew will provide an overview of current technology, legislative, cultural and leadership themes anchored around the issues of service delivery in an NHS Foundation Trust which delivers mental health and learning disability services.

Tony Middleton will describe how Bradford District Care Trust has pioneered the use of the leading single instance (cloud) national GP system, SystmOne, for Mental Health and the use of virtualisation and iPads for systems such as RiO, designed for mental health trusts.