Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust
 Dr David Low
Consultant Paediatrician and Medical Director, Integrated Care.
David qualified in medicine at Cambridge and the Royal London in
1975. He became a Consultant at Sandwell in 1986. In addition to
his clinical and Medical Director roles, he is the clinical lead
for information technology and knowledge management within the Trust.
Telephone: 0121 607 6417 or 0121 607 3235
or by Email: david.low@swellhot.wmids.nhs.uk
Shak Dussaye
Path.Finder Secretary/Administrator
Shak previously worked as an audit assistant within the Clinical
Effectiveness Department. She became full time Path.Finder administrator
in 1998. She has an NVQ in business administration.
Telephone: 0121 607 3057
or by Email: shak.dussaye@swellhot.wmids.nhs.uk
How to find us
Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust
Lyndon
West Bromwich
B71 4HJ
Tel: 0121 553 1831
Path.Finder Development in Sandwell
Sandwell Healthcare NHS Trust is a 600-bed district general hospital
situated just north east of Birmingham. It serves a population of
293 000.
By 1995, a number of guidelines and care pathways had been developed
within the Trust, but clinicians needed a reliable method to disseminate,
access, assimilate and store them. Path.Finder was the ideal vehicle
for this, and so in 1996 the Trust joined the Path.Finder Consortium.
We initially started with an electronic 'book' of clinical guidelines
and details of various departments using Voyager software. We have
recently however employed a Web Development company to develop a
bespoke 'content management system' which functions essentially
as the Trust Intranet. The site is database driven (MySQL) and can
therefore contain an infinite volume of information combined with
a state of the art search facility.
The new site includes clinical guidelines, home pages for departments
and services, information for patients (leaflets and support group
web sites), knowledge resources (web site links, on-line journals,
library holdings), and clinical governance information (clinical
effectiveness, clinical risk & training). At present, only Trust
staff have access to the Intranet, but this will change in the near
future when the local GPs will be given access.
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