The Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) of the British Computer Society (BCS). Passionate about primary care health informatics & digital
UK
Joined February 2011
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BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
🚨 Our speaker line-up is shaping up to be something special! Hear from Prof. Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna, Dr Anne-Marie Cunningham, Prof. Tony Avery, Prof. Simon de Lusignan & Dr Neil Paul BCS PHCSG Annual Conference & Education Day 12-13 Nov 📷 tinyurl.com/PHCSGConf26
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Ready to leap forward? 🚀
Join primary care innovators, clinicians and digital leaders at the BCS PHCSG Annual Conference 2026
📍 Oxford
📅 12-13 November 2026
Explore AI, clinical safety, population health and the future of digital general practice.
🎟️ Booking opens soon!
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
THIS is bloody amazing
Great news for new parents: intensive care admissions for RSV in babies have halved in England, thanks to the maternal vaccination programme. 👶👶🏾👶🏼
If you're pregnant, don't miss out. Contact your maternity service or GP practice to get vaccinated & help protect your newborn.
ALT Hospital monitor displaying the message “50% drop in newborn ICU admissions recorded in first full year of RSV maternal vaccine programme,” with a large downward green arrow. In the background, a neonatal care unit with an incubator, baby blanket and soft toy is visible.
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
GPs will not have data controller role within NHS single patient record
This is ‘data protector’ for patient records
These are your & my records
There is no need for anyone to have access beyond what is already available
pulsetoday.co.uk/news/techno…
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Can a Single Patient Record really exist?
Join @BCS @phcsg for a focused CLICSIG discussion exploring the reality behind the vision—benefits, risks, and practical challenges
🗓️ 17–18 April 2026
📍 Trowbridge, BA14 6PX
👥 ~20 places only
Register now: tinyurl.com/CLICSIGApr26
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
GP software EMIS down nationally for 45 mins
Let’s do the maths!
58% of practices
3654 practices
52900 appointments potentially lost
£1.2 million pounds lost
Compensation to practices £0.00
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Opportunity for early career health & care informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) 2026 in Genoa (25–28 May)! The PHCSG is offering up to three £1,250 travel awards in honour of Dr Julian Costello, a long-time PHCSG member
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BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
EXCL: Wes Streeting accused of taking “chaotic and incoherent approach” to reforming NHS which makes it unlikely government will hit targets, according to damning @instituteforgov report 👇
theguardian.com/politics/202…
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
It's just 4 weeks until the Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) annual conference near Bradford! Scan the QR code below to take a look at our agenda and reserve your place today!
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Our MD @kez_oliver is delighted to be presenting this FREE webinar hosted by our colleagues at Health Innovation East Mids.
Sign up to attend using the link below to hear about the FAMCAT2 innovation!
#FH #PRIMISatUoN #hearthealth @Healthinn_em
Coming soon! Our free webinar 14th October 12-1pm to on FAMCAT2, an innovation that could help identify individuals at increased risk of Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH).
Developed & deployed by colleagues at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
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BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
🧬 Most people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) go undiagnosed.
Join us on 14 Oct at 12–1PM to learn how FAMCAT2 is transforming detection in primary care.
🎓 Experts from @UniofNottingham + @PRIMISatUoN
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/FAMCAT2webinar
#FH #PrimaryCare #FAMCAT2
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Conference booking is now OPEN and early bird discounts are in effect!
Join together with leading voices in healthcare, technology, and policy to explore how innovation is reshaping primary care from AI tools in Primary Care to the single patient record.
tinyurl.com/PHCSG25Tickets
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Deadline now extended until 19th September! Do you know someone who has done something innovative or impactful in primary care informatics? Why not encourage them to apply 👇 so they can receive acknowledgement and kudos for making a difference!
We are looking for nominees for our Hildi Franke Early Career 2025 award! £150 cash prize!
Have you or a colleague made a worthwhile contribution to primary care computing or informatics? Then why not apply!
More info: tinyurl.com/PHCSGAwards
Deadline: 5th September 2025
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
This Special Interest Group is for like minded professionals looking to develop machine learning in their organisation, share what's going on, learn from others, create collective artifacts, and more... orlo.uk/2kq2s
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
🌟 Early Career PHCSG Webinar: Catalysing Your Digital Health Career 🌟
Hear from NHS Doctors, Data Scientists, @bcs and Health Education England representatives to help kickstart your digital health career.
📅 When: 29/04/25 1-2pm
🔗 Register Here: phc29042025.eventbrite.co.uk…
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
Keir Starmer announces NHS England will be abolished
The PM says the move is to to 'cut bureaucracy' and bring management of the health service 'back into democratic control'
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
More info about the award including previous winners on this page bcs.org/membership-and-regis…
@bcs @Fed_IP @EFMI
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
PHCSG are offering up to three £1,000 travel awards for early career Health and Care Informaticians to attend Medical Informatics Europe (@EFMI #MIE2025) in Glasgow! 19-21 May 2025
***Application deadline Mon 3 Feb 5pm***
tinyurl.com/PHCSGTRAVEL25
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
One of the fun things about our work is the backchatter that come to us are all how measured and reasonable our requests are - those who want to block them don’t have an argument against transparency, they just like the secrecy that comes from avoiding scrutiny
BCS PrimaryHealthCare SG retweeted
GP CRISIS
There appears to be a conspiracy of silence at the top of NHS England & Govt
Why has £2bn been cut from GP practices? (£/patient)
Leading to unemployment of GPs when there is a need for more GP appts
Instead funded alternative roles ARRS
What’s the problem? Why cut?
