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IBJ Health and Technology Ltd
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Dr Ian Jackson
Medical Director and Clinical Safety Officer
Biography
Dr Jackson qualified from Aberdeen Medical School in 1981 and spent a period on a GP Vocational Training Scheme prior to pursuing a career in Anaesthesia. During training he developed a keen interest in the management of postoperative pain and in the use of regional anaesthesia. He was appointed as a Consultant Anaesthetist in York in 1989 and worked with two colleagues to start the first Acute Pain Management Service in the UK.
In 1991 he became responsible for the development of Day Surgery in York. In the 1990’s he spent several years as Clinical Director for Anaesthesia, ICU and Theatres and then stood down to lead the redesign of short stay surgery in York and opened a new 6 theatre day unit that includes a 22 trolley overnight stay area. He championed the move to short stay surgery and negotiating the transfer of sufficient surgical activity to close 60 surgical beds.
He was elected to the Council of the British Association of Day Surgery (BADS) in 1994. He has acted as the Honorary Treasurer (1997 –2000), Editor of the Journal of One-Day Surgery (2000-2004) and President (2006-2008). During this time he founded and developed the BADS website (www.bads.co.uk).
He returned to the role of Clinical Director of Anaesthesia, ICU and Theatres between 2008-2011 and developed the Directorate to include waiting list, preoperative assessment, same day admission unit, endoscopy and outpatients.
He has been involved at the national level in several initiatives aimed at redesigning the NHS including working for the Modernisation Agency Day Surgery programme, the 18 weeks referral to treatment initiative and then the Darzi Review in England – Chairing the Planned Care Pathway for NHS Yorkshire & the Humber. He was elected to the General Assembly of the International Association for Ambulatory Surgery (IAAS) in 2007. Since then he became webmaster and redeveloped their website (www.theiaas.net) and helped establish the journal Ambulatory Surgery as a free access online resource (www.ambulatorysurgery.org). He also spent a period as Editor of the Journal.
During his Presidency of the IAAS he developed strong links with China encouraging their development of a national day surgery association (Chinese Ambulatory Surgery Alliance), supporting their national meetings and encouraging them to become members of the IAAS and then successfully host the IAAS International Congress in Beijing in 2017. As an active member of the IAAS he continues to support
- a Structural Reform Support Service EU programme to develop and promote ambulatory surgery in 8 hospitals in central Hungary
- looking after the website, enabling online business meetings and hosting IAAS Online Congresses
- providing talks for new online meetings across China, Brazil and Australia
Experience as Clinical Safety Officer and Chief Clinical Information Officer
Dr Jackson took on the Clinical Safety Officer role in 2011 following completion Clinical Safety Officer training. The role was expanded to that of a fulltime Chief Clinical Information Officer in 2012 with the aim of combining the risk assessment and safe design and implementation of IT systems across the hospital with a new role of acting as a link between Clinical colleagues and our Systems and Network Service which includes the Information and Coding Teams.
York Teaching Hospital has its own in house developed IT system with a very active development team – this required the development of a risk management system that deals both the development (DCB0129) and the deployment of our systems (DCB0160). York has also taken over another large hospital (Scarborough) and so he gained extensive experience of working with new clinical colleagues to ensure the safe implementation of systems across 2 new hospital sites.
He has a special interest in trying to use the implementation of new systems as an opportunity to improve knowledge of clinical colleagues and improve clinical processes and so improve patient safety. Part of his role has been on improving coding within the Trust. This has required a wide approach including –
Clinical education about coding and importance of clear note keeping and recording of diagnosis etc, (aimed at both consultants and junior doctors).
Coding education – working with coders and their interpretation of medical notes
Working with clinical colleagues and coders on commonest diagnosis so creating an ICD10 based system that actually uses current UK terms for conditions
Another example of improving patient safety has been working on the implementation of the electronic recording of nursing observations – education was provided on the importance of recognising the deteriorating patient and their assessment and management as an integral part of the roll out. At this stage this work along with improved coding contributed to a reduction in SHMI for York Hospital.
Experience is mainly with the roll out of ‘in house’ developed software – across Outpatients, Inpatients, Maternity and the Emergency Department. He completed the Safety Case for one of York Trusts largest projects to date – Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration. By choice he now works on an ‘as needed’ basis as Clinical Safety Officer to support York projects only working when needed and when it fits with his other commitments.
In 2020 admitted as a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and he managed the faculty mentorship programme until they dissolved the faculy in 2024.
Awards
Awarded Honorary Membership 2022
Admitted as Member of Faculty of Clinical Informatics 2020
Awarded Honorary Appointment as Consultant of China Ambulatory Surgery Alliance 2017
Awarded Honorary Membership of Portuguese Association of Day Surgery 2016
Lifetime Achievement Award – awarded by CEO York Teaching Hospital 2015