Charlie Bishop

Charlie is the Immediate Past Chair of HL7 UK. He is Product Manager - Integration for iSOFT (An IBA Health Group Company) responsible for ensuring that the company can deliver integrated solutions using international standards such as HL7. He has worked in Healthcare IT for over 25 years in a variety of roles in the NHS, supplier organisations and as an independent consultant. He was one of the founder members of HL7 UK and has been involved in various aspects of the HL7 v2 and v3 standards both locally and in the international HL7 community. Currently serves as co-chair of the HL7 UK v2 sub-group and is the Modelling Facilitator for the international Clinical Statement project. Charlie is an enthusiastic advocate of the version 3 standard but would like to see steps taken to make it easier for suppliers to adopt it and roll it out in their products.

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Hugh Glover

Hugh Glover started working with computers 35 years ago and continues to do both design, analysis and software development. He is one of the partners in Blue Wave Informatics – a consultancy that specialises in Analysis and Design for healthcare computing, especially related to medicines management and patient safety.

Hugh has been a member of HL7 from its earliest days and had previously been Technical Committee chair for over 4 years. Internationally he is Modelling and Methodology facilitator for the Pharmacy Special Interest Group of HL7.

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Andrew Hinchley

Andrew Hinchley has been working on the sharing and exchange of clinical information in healthcare since 1992 after a successful period in helping to establish the basis for today’s worldwide communications infrastructure. He was formally recognised at a recent ceremony at Stanford University as one of the 25 founders of the internet. After having initially contributed to healthcare projects through his own consultancy, he has more recently become more directly associated with the NHS National Programme through working for an LSP and as the Integration Strategist for Cerner UK  he had the responsibility for all information sharing in the acute sector at site, regional and national spine level for all of Cerner’s current and planned installations in London and the South. He is now working as an Independent Consultant. He became involved with HL7 at an early stage of the HL7 V3 development and was a founder member of HL7 UK, where he has been a Board Member for a number of years.

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Philip Scott

Philip is the Chair of HL7 UK. Philip has worked in NHS information management and ICT development projects for fourteen years. He has a practical interest in systems interoperability, having led the implementation of an automated solution for diagnostic image transfer from the local military hospital unit and Independent Sector Treatment Centre into the Trust’s PACS. Philip has an MSc with distinction in healthcare information systems and was recently awarded a PhD for his research programme exploring clinician usage of information. He is a member of the British Computer Society and a Chartered IT Professional. He serves on the programme committee for the Southern Institute for Health Informatics hosted by the University of Portsmouth and chaired the programme committee for the HL7 UK 2008 conference. In July 2009 Philip left the NHS to take up a new post as Senior Lecturer in information systems at the University of Portsmouth where he will continue to undertake research in health informatics.

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Rik Smithies

Rik Smithies is a Past Chair of HL7 UK and has over 20 years in the software industry. He has consulted for NHS Connecting for Health, as well as working for its LSPs and suppliers.
Rik has been involved with HL7 since the GP2GP project in 2002. He has contributed to the published UK and international HL7 standards and has authored many parts of the CFH message manuals. Before that he was an architect for a UK GP system supplier for 10 years, and programmed a series of HL7 V3 messages and other interfaces. More recently his work has turned to areas of pathology messaging and pharmacy terminology.
As well as representing HL7 UK internationally, Rik is a co-chair for the Clinical Statement project and was previously the secretary of HL7 UK.

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Mike Snowden

Mike is a “Lead” with BT’s London LSP team, and has been working on the interpretation and implementation of CfH specifications for the last 5 years. His background is in Integration & Interoperability, Standards and Messaging architectures, where he has more than 25 year’s experience.

He is a strong advocate of the principle that systems for customer or end-user use must be both usable and useful, and enthusiastically applies this to his work in Health Messaging.

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Martin Whittaker

As Treasurer, Martin Whittaker is responsible for managing the financial health of HL7 UK. He also looks after membership services for the organisation. He has been involved in healthcare IT for nearly 30 years and is a founder member of HL7 UK. With a background in laboratory and radiology systems, he has worked as a programmer, project manager, sales and marketing manager and general manager in these and related areas. Since the early 1990s he has been an independent consultant, specialising in technical and standards strategy work. Martin is also a member of the Intellect Healthcare Council

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Ann Wrightson

Initially trained in Philosophy (specializing in logic). Following a varied and successful early career in electronic publishing, Ann Wrightson spent ten years lecturing, researching, and consulting in an academic context, developing interests in formal methods, requirements modelling and system safety alongside continuing involvement in information systems theory and practice. Moving on from academia in 2000, Ann worked as an advisor, technical strategist and enterprise IT architect, mainly in eGovernment and Healthcare. Her main area of expertise is interoperability over space and time, especially in the context of establishing and managing large scale long-lived content repositories for purposes including new media publishing, digital archiving and electronic health records. Ann became a member of the HL7 UK Board while employed as a Principal Consultant by CSW Group Ltd; in July 2008 she joined Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales) as a Technical Architect. Ann is currently the Technical Committee Chair.

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