Dr Glyn Hayes  MBChB, DRCOG, FBCS, CITP

UKCHIP President

Constituency: Clinical Informatics

Industry Sector: Primary Care  

Biography:  Glyn is a medical practitioner who, although now retired, was a GP in Worcester for 25 years. He has been involved with Health Informatics since the late 70s when he designed one of first consulting room GP computer systems.   He is a founder member of the Primary Health Care Specialist Group of the BCS, was its Chair from 1985 to 1990 and is its Immediate Past President.  He is a Fellow of the BCS and Immediate Past Chair of the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum. He became the Medical Director for one of the largest suppliers of IT to the NHS in 1992.

Glyn has been the President of UKCHIP since its formation and values the opportunity to continue its development.  His informatics interests include making systems which clinicians want to use, improving individual patient care by the application of IT and developing Health Informatics into a substantive profession.