Prestigious health award for UCLan academic

National Health Informatics honour for ‘very special person’

The Institute of Health Records and Information Management has awarded the Lowe Informatics Award to Dr Beverley Ellis, Academic Lead and Principal Lecturer in Health Informatics at UCLan. The award is in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Health Informatics in the United Kingdom.  

Beverley’s background within the NHS was as a manager of a ‘paperless’ integrated primary health care team for 18 years. She is a member of the UK Council of Health Informatics Professions (UK CHIP); Secretary of the British Computer Society Primary Healthcare Specialist Group; Co Vice Chair of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics and member of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM). She regularly contributes to national conferences and publications on health informatics and has first-hand experience of integrated care record systems, the maintenance of professional standards whilst exploiting the potential of technology to support quality patient care and translating theory into practice.

Lorraine Nicholson, International Association for Human Resources Management (IHRIM) Chief Executive, said: “In her role as External Examiner, Beverley has been extremely supportive, endlessly patient and highly adaptable in managing the responsibility of her ‘day job’ at UCLan and the fulfilment of her additional responsibilities to IHRIM. She has also afforded a very high level of support to the IHRIM Clinical Coding Lead and all of her input to the NCCQ examination process has been thoroughly and competently provided in a truly professional manner.

“As this is such an important award and a special year for IHRIM, it is very fitting that this award was made to a very special person who has unfailingly upheld the Informatics profession and equally unfailingly supported IHRIM in her professional capacity as External Examiner to the NCCQ (UK). This qualification is a national accreditation in Clinical Coding, which recognises the true status of the coder in the business domain.”

27 January 2010