TV producer will share its expertise to help health service use technology

MAVERICK, the TV producer behind Channel 4 series including Bizarre ER and Embarrassing Bodies, is among a number of businesses and doctors focusing on how to bring more technology into the NHS.

Glasgow School of Art’s Design & Innovation Lab at Forres, Moray, is hosting an event on Monday for 20 representatives from industry and the NHS, including Anne Henry, Scotland’s lead clinician for quality and long-term conditions, and consultant obstetrician Grant Cumming. Medical diagnostics firm AccuNostics, online booking provider EAvailability and PA Consulting are also among those taking part.

Organisers said the event will look at new ways of introducing technology into practice, such as surgical techniques aided by robots and the use of “geo-mapping” to track patient care in the community.

The meeting would give doctors and business people time to swap ideas without the pressure of being in a sales situation.

Andrew Fowlie, general manager of NHS Grampian’s Moray community health and social care partnership, said: “Maverick TV will be sharing its experience of running websites associated with its television shows.

“These websites allow patients to interact with each other and share their experiences. That’s one of the areas in which the health service has been slow to adopt new technologies.”

The meeting is the latest project from Digital Moray, a partnership between Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Moray College, the NHS, the Scottish Government, academia, industry and the public sector.