ABOUT DR NICK GROVES
CONSULTANT ANAESTHETIST
— Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
— Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists
— MSc in Health Informatics
Nick Groves graduated in medicine from the University of Bristol, and following postgraduate training in internal medicine and in anaesthesia, has been Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in Cardiff since 1987.
Since then, apart from his clinical work, he has been active in three other areas:- NHS management (as Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director for Surgery in Cardiff between 1994 and 2006); maintenance and development of quality and standards (as a Kings Fund auditor/surveyor since 1993); and in implementation and use of technology.
He led the implementation of computerised audit and severity scoring in an intensive care setting in Cardiff in 1989, and has contributed to a number of national NHS IT development groups, including the NHSWIS HIProfile team, and project work with UK Health Informatics National Occupational Standards.
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