20/07/2024
A little more than over a year ago, I was rounding up my interim assignment at Public Health Scotland, and getting ready for the publication of my first book. I planned to take some time off to focus on promoting the book, Small by Small, about becoming a doctor in 1990s Nigeria. The end of that final assignment would bring two and a half years of working remotely in Scotland in various interesting and challenging assignments at NHS Lothian, NHS Lanarkshire, and Public Health Scotland to an end. During that time I chaired over a hundred incident management team meetings for COVID outbreaks including in some very high profile sensitive and complex settings; participated in the on call rota for health protection and led on various aspects of the response to COVID. My last assignment was to lead on behalf of PHS, the planning and roll out of a national lookback exercise coordinated by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service & PHS. Megan Rowley who was then medical director at SNBTS & I co chaired the implementation group, ably supported by several colleagues at local, regional and national level across several specialties. We were accountable to an oversight group chaired by Professor Nicola Steedman, Deputy CMO Scotland. Our task was to plan and lead the rollout and hand over the implementation to colleagues. I left PHS in mid May, just as the programme went live. I often wondered how it was going in the rare quiet moments in the whirlwind of my unplanned extended book promotion campaign.
Nicole Priddey of SNBTS was spearhead of the project and recently led some of the project team to write an article on the project. “How do we conduct a national transfusion related lookback program?” was published in Transfusion journal by Wiley this week. I’m grateful to all the colleagues, patients and partners who supported and contributed to this work
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