Day 1 of the Integrated Care stage closes with a Rewired debate bringing together two giants of the NHS IT world for a lively debate and final audience vote on the motion:

“This Rewired conference believes that until all NHS providers have rich electronic patient record systems, which can also access ‘Local Care Records’, achieving real integrated care will be impossible.” 

Speaking for the motion will be the leader of the largest EPR programme in the NHS: Beverley Bryant, joint CDIO, Kings and Guys and St Thomas’ and SRO the Apollo programme

Speaking against the motion will be the programme director of Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, the most successful shared records project in England: Lee Rickles, CIO, Programme Director & Deputy SIRO

Speakers:

Beverley Bryant, Chief Digital Information Officer, Guy’s & St. Thomas FT and King’s College Hospital FT

Lee Rickles, Yorkshire & Humber Care Record Programme Director and CIO, Humber Teaching NHS FT

Chair

Andy Kinnear, former CIO, NHS and now Partnerships Director, Ethical Healthcare Consulting