Jonathan Underhill 

Assistant Director, Education and Development

National Prescribing Centre

Biography

Jonathan studied Pharmacy at the hellhole that was Sunderland Poly and managed to graduate in 1989. He then spent 6 years working at various hospitals in London, mostly in Medicines Information, before coming to work at the NPC in 1996. After 4 years writing and editing various NPC
publications such as MeReC, he began working on the Education and Development side of things, setting up the NPC's highly successful cascade therapeutic training programme. Now with around 70 trainers under his 'care' he has less time than he would like to enjoy the more
important aspects of his life such as his gorgeous partner and children and his misplaced (and totally unrewarded) loyalty to Newcastle United FC.

Abstract

Feeling Comfortable with not knowing everything

How can busy healthcare practitioners stay up to date with current evidence? Can they manage it by reading more? If they had the time, and the number of research papers was manageable (they don't, and it isn't), how confident are they that they can identify important research from less important, poor quality 'noise'? There is a new and very
interesting approach called Information Mastery. At this interactive and hopefully thought provoking workshop, Jonathan will outline some of the main principles of this approach and offer some challenges to Information Professionals working in the modern healthcare arena.

This page was last updated on: 11 May, 2006