Healthcare informatics skills — the key to NHS modernisation
Martin Sotheran, Head of the NHS Information Authority’s
National Health Informatics Development division, gives an update on its
progress in the development of a curriculum for healthcare-informatics
professionals and in establishing a formal, basic level of competence in
healthcare-informatics skills for NHS professionals.
keywords: professional
development, healthcare-informatics skillsets, education and training,
occupational standards.
abstract
The NHS Information Authority and its predecessor organisations have
championed national work programmes providing a strategic lead and
support to increase the skills and knowledge of healthcare informatics
and information management and technology throughout the NHS. The
different but co-ordinated strands of work being undertaken by the
Information Authority in partnership with major NHS healthcare
informatics stakeholders to support the development of NHS IM&T
capability and capacity are described.
Br J Healthcare Comput Info Manage 2003; 20(8): 25–7. |
