60 Second Interview: Hashim Reza

Hashim Reza

Hashim Reza is the clinical director for Bromley Mental Health Services and mental health clinical lead for NHS London Programme for IT. 

What’s the first thing you do when you get into the office?

Need to log the laptop into the trust network. Then on with the patient records on clinical work days & e-mails on admin days. It’s incredible how many hours I have been spending in front of the monitors over the past year.

Your favourite gadget at the moment?

Palm remains the favourite, third model (T3) since I acquired the PalmPilot in 1999…

What’s the best thing about your job?

Meeting and talking to people: patients as well as colleagues, clinical and non-clinical.

Favourite book or song (or both)?

List of books is too long and favourite songs are classical/mystical Farsi & Punjabi.

Pet hate?

Traffic.

Favourite website?

EHI, of course!

What annoys you?

Others failure to attend to details.

In a perfect world, what would you be doing?

Reading uninterrupted from a large pile of books, none of which is related to the day job.

What’s caught your eye recently?

Mobile hand-held device for ward rounds and clinical reviews

e-Health innovation that interests you at the moment?

Mobile access to electronic care records & digital pens

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