Mike Bainbridge

Dr Mike Bainbridge is clinical architect for the NHS Connecting for Health programme. He is responsible for the common user interface programme and works in partnership with Microsoft to deliver on the desktop and infrastructure, Windows NHS and Office NHS, a platform independent and standards-based clinical system design guide and a clinical system toolkit. He is also responsible for assistive technology design and support.

Mike is a past chairman of the British Computer Society's primary health care specialist group and an editorial board member of the Journal of Informatics in Primary Care.

A former practising GP, Mike has been active in healthCare informatics for 24 years since installing a computer into his practice as a junior GP in 1982. He has a unique insight into clinical practice and the design and needs of clinical information systems supporting clinical care.