The Mantis Advisory Panel
To ensure you get the very best thinking, consultancy and advice when you need it, we have assembled an advisory panel of renowned IT and business specialists from the markets of healthcare (NHS and private), education, local government and emergency services.
To access the intelligence, skills and expertise of the Mantis Advisory Panel, please email gavinloader@mantispr.co.uk or toby@mantispr.co.uk or call 0845 299 0684.
Ian Herbert
Independent health information systems specialist
Ian is a health information systems specialist with thirty-eight years
experience in computing and Information Technology. Ian is currently
Vice Chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) Health Informatics
Forum and an active member of the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist
Group. Ian also sits on the BCS Specialist Group Executive Committee and
is a BCS Council member.
Ian was previously a senior consultant working for the NHS on the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). He has previously led the team that produced the Update Primary Care System, which grew out of work undertaken as a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. He has also worked on the Requirements for Accreditation for GP Systems, the NHS Healthcare Model and Episodes of Care, and was a member of two European projects concerned with computerised guideline support.
Dr Glyn Hayes
M.B.Ch.B, D.R.C.O.G., F.B.C.S. CITP
Independent health informatics consultant
Glyn currently provides independent consultancy on all aspects of health
informatics.
He is a founder member of the British Computer Society (BCS) Primary Health Care Specialist Group; he was its Chair from 1985 to 1990 and he is currently its President. He was Chair of the BCS Health Informatics Forum from 2000 to 2008. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the BCS in 2008.
He is a founder member and current President of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professions.
2008-2009, Glyn chaired a review team set up to examine NHS and social care IT by the then Shadow Health Minister, Stephen O'Brien MP.
1992-2000, he was Medical Director of one of the largest suppliers of IT to the English NHS.
On the international stage, Glyn was previously elected as the Secretary General of the European Institute for Health records (EuroRec). He has formally represented the UK on the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and was the chair of the Primary Care Working Group of IMIA. He has also been awarded the Rory O'Moore Medal by the Irish Health Informatics Society for his contribution to health informatics.
A retired UK medical practitioner, Glyn was a GP in Worcester for 25 years.
