Carr, Andy
Andy Carr
Clinical Safety Officer, NHS England
After qualifying as a Physiotherapist at the Royal London Hospital in 1991 Andy worked in a variety of acute, community, intermediate and primary care settings; mainly in the UK but also for 18 months in Honduras and Guatemala.
Since 1999, his Clinical Informatics work has included the design, development, implementation and assurance of electronic patient records (EPRs) and health IT systems; initially in the EPR team in Salford; from 2006 on the national Summary Care Record (SCR); and from 2016 as a national Clinical Safety Officer.
Andy previously was Deputy National Clinical Lead for Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), chaired the national SCR design steering group and was a member of the NHS Care Record Service National Clinical Reference Panel.
He is passionate about the safe and successful implementation and use of health IT systems to improve patient care, and the patient experience of care.
