The Team

Dr Forbes is a GP partner at a busy North East General Practice. Regarding CDRC his key objectives are to:
To help bridge the gap between guideline production and implementation, whilst respecting the need for individual and integrated patient care
To maximise the use of IT resources to improve patient care, safety and experience, improve NHS staff experience and improve efficiency.

Dr Harness currently chairs the CDRC and acts as its Clinical Safety Officer.  His primary interest is in EMIS Web and in information transfer.

I-Lin leads a number of teams within NECS including Primary Care Data Quality, digital applications and Data Services for Commissioner’s Regional Office (DSCRO) and data management. For CDRC she will provide support and advice on the development and delivery.

Billie is the Senior lead for the Primary Care Data Quality team across the North East. For CDRC she will oversee the operational delivery of the process from the initial resource request to publication for regional use working with clinicians, subject matter experts and key stakeholders including the Academic Health Science Network, Northern Cancer Alliance, NHSE Public Health and North East Quality Observatory Service.

Jody works for the AHSN network and leads on and develops national innovation programmes into the NHS, with a focus on Primary Care and Medicine Optimisation.

For CDRC she is Evaluation lead and is Project Lead for CDRC regional implementation.

Dr Zamoyski has an interest in medical student education, IT/process improvement and delivers a regular care home round in Throckley as part of the care homes project.

Jordan supports the AHSN NENC Economic Growth team on a number of projects and streams of work. The team encourage innovation within healthcare, working with industry partners and NHS Trusts.

For CDRC Precision, Jordan manages the social media content and engagement and manages the CDRC website.

Michelle is responsible for contract and performance management of health improvement projects and supports the leads to report metrics and deliver on 4 national workstreams.

For CDRC she will be working closely with the implementation team to ensure CDRC is rolled out regionally and nationally, support the AHSN digital resource reference group and the CDRC steering group.

Day to day Gary’s main role is to manage the team delivering CCG commissioned Practice based Medicine Optimisation Services. He also provides Information Governance and IT support to the wider CBC Health Team. For CDRC, Gary helps to look after the EMIS instance that is used to share resources. He also helps to develop, maintain and assess to EMIS based resources.

Dr Coakley practices as a GP in a rural practice in Cumbria. He is also a clinical co-ordinator and GP for the local out of hours GP service (Cumbria Health on Call).

In addition to these roles Dr Coakley is also a GP lead and Chief Clinical Information Officer for North Cumbria CCG, part of which involves sitting on the group of the CDRC.

Paul is responsible for GPIT service commissioning and digital transformation co-ordination across Sunderland, focusing on general practice and out of hospital services.

He also supports the CDRC by ensuring supporting services are included in the GPIT SLA and local processes are in place to use resources.

David works closely with Mark and manages and co-ordinates the Sunderland Clinical Support Information (CSI) system. The main aim is to develop standardised clinical pathways and referral content with GPs and Secondary care specialists for Primary Care.

Julie has recently taken up a position within County Durham CCG, primarily connecting the surgeries with care homes for online ordering of medications and viewing the SystmOne and EMIS records. Previously, she was a Clinical Systems Specialist with NECS and has been working with the CDRC colleagues on developing a variety of Referral letter templates (including 2WW forms) for SystmOne and E-Referral.

Leading the Cumbria PRIMIS Informatics Team in the delivery of an effective support service to North Cumbria and Morecambe Bay GP practices and CCGs. Including: data standardisation; data quality; data extraction (via Enterprise Search and Reports) and reporting; Read/SNOMED coding; referral form and document library maintenance; supporting the effective use of EMIS and third party software; supporting electronic and integrated working; and associated support and training.

Mark has 15 years’ experience within the NHS from commissioning to provider services. He currently works at the Sunderland GP Alliance where he oversees all things IT related. He has many roles but his focus is patient care.

For CDRC and within Sunderland, Mark is a system champion of resource building, management and governance.

Dr Elliott is a GP working with Northern Cancer Alliance to improve access to quality cancer services for the population of North East and North Cumbria, leading work on 2 week wait referral forms for suspected cancers and decision support tools for Upper and Lower GI. She feels CDRC have been essential to this work.

For Northumberland CCG Dr Glennie is the Primary Care IT Strategy and Development Lead.

Stacey is a member of the Sunderland CCG Digital team with over 17 years of experience working in the NHS across primary and secondary care.  The key focus of her role is to support practices to optimise clinical and management information systems within Sunderland and share good practice across the region.

Nicola is currently the Programme Lead for CDRC on behalf County Durham CCG. A key part of this involves securing ongoing funding for the group and ensuring the relevant organisations are involved in decision making.

Professor Newton is the Medical Director at the Academic Health Science Network and provides support to CDRC via multiple regional networks.

Sean’s main role at CBC Health Ltd is working on the Referral Form Project. He works closely with CDRC colleagues to develop standardised document templates. Once approved, these are published to GP practices across Gateshead and the North East area where appropriate.