Membership
Members of SCIMP represent the broad base of Scottish primary care. All contributors are expected to have a special interest in eHealth and in particular should have skills, experience or post-graduate qualifications in medical informatics.
Would you like to join the SCIMP Working Group?
We are currently looking for new member to join the working group. Please click here for more information and please contact paulmiller@nhs.net (SCIMP Clinical Lead) or janethomson2@nhs.net if you would like to find out more.
Where do our members come from?
Individual Members
Drawn from the primary care community these are normally people with a special interest in clinical informatics and direct experience of providing general practice and associated services.
Organisational Representatives
This are key representatives from other eHealth bodies (typically of NHS Scotland).
We also have representatives from the software suppliers and they are involved in any appropriate discussions via an email distribution list.
Membership Numbers
The SCIMP working group is limited to a maximum of 25 members.
Organisational Representation
SCIMP has representatives from the following list of groups:
- GMS IT Facilitators
- Practice Managers
- Primary Care eHealth
- NISG Solution Stewardship
- General Practitioners
- Nursing and Allied Health Professionals
- Clinical advisors to core GP system suppliers i.e. INPS / EMIS
- National Information Services Group
- Scottish National User Group
- EMIS National User Group
- National Vision User Group
- GP IT Change Advisory Board
- GP IT Mentoring and Facilitating Team
- National Services Scotland
- Scottish General Practitioners Committee
Individual members
- Dr Alastair Taylor
GP, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
- Andrew Vickerstaff
Practice Manager, Aultbeagairloch Medical Practice
- Colin Brown
Retired GP and Clinical Informatics Adviser, Glasgow
- Dr Chris Weatherburn
GP, NHS Tayside and SCIMP Interim Clinical Lead
- Dr Iain Cromarty
GP, NHS Orkney
- Ian McNicoll
Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Ltd
- Dr Ian Thompson
GP, NHS Lothian and Primary Care Clinical Lead in Digital Health & Care, SG
- Dr Karen Lefevre
GP, NHS Grampian
- Dr Keith Moffat
Locum GP, NHS Ayrshire & Arran
- Dr Lindsey Ross
Locum GP, NHS Highland
- Dr Susannah McLean
GP, NHS Lothian
- Dr Richard Jack
GP, NHS Lothian
- Dr Virginia Santiago
NRS Clinical Research Fellow, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews