Rupert Fawdry

MB, BS (London), LMCC (Canada), FRCS (Edinburgh), FRCOG (England) GMC No. 024 69 83

Consultant Specialist in Maternity Care, Gynaecology and Medical Information Technology

Home: 31, St.Mary’s Way, Leighton Buzzard, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. LU7 2RX. T: (0064-)1525 370137.

Work : Flat 4/3, 5 Firpark Court, Glasgow G31 2GA Tel: (0064-) 141- 556 1060

Mobiles: (0064-) 77 68 97 44 13 or 77 678 23 8 27

e-mail:

rupert@fawdry.demon.co.uk website http://www.fawdry.info (Electronic Encyclopaedia of Perinatal Data)

Dear Colleague

Re: Help by contributing to, or even editing, some of the Electronic Encyclopaedia of Perinatal Data

The EEPD needs contributions from you. And this Volume of the EEPD also needs a volunteer editor.

Unfortunately so far all the work on the EEPD has been personally funded (at today

over the past 30 years) and I cannot therefore even afford to pay your expenses. However, from my many

years of experience in interface between acute hospital and community medical care, I am convinced that only

an internet based “Open Source” approach which takes full account of all interested parties will overcome our

present stagnation in complex Acute Hospital IT and provide a reliable basis for future progress in Maternity

and Neonatal IT (and also of other Acute Hospital IT systems)

Because of this, at some point, the EEPD or something similar will become sufficiently important and well used

a) as to look good on your C.V. and b) as to attract advertisers (that

to fund the long term viability of the EEPD as a valuable charity organisation.

Even now if you google “Perinatal Data” the EEPD already is nearly always first out of well over 300,000 hits!

and seems to be the only hit concerned not just with the use of data that has been collected by someone else,

but rather with the midwife or doctor who has to enter the original data!

Although it might be tempting to go on trying to seek government support (as I have tried and failed many

times over the past 30 years), from my experience there is a dangerous probability that any such centralised

financial control would damagingly distort priorities away from Individual Patient Care (helping directly to

improve the quality and reliability of individual consultations and only invisibly providing high quality data for

management) and instead will continue to give priority to the collection of data for managerial and political

purposes, regardless of the extra workload imposed on medical, midwifery and nursing staff.

If at all interested in discussing possibilities regarding an editorial role, please get in touch with me personally

Rupert Fawdry. e-mail: eepd@fawdry.demon.co.uk or phone U.K. 0044 (0)1525 37 01 37 or on one of my

mobiles 077 678 23 8 27.

Thanks

Yours sincerely

Rupert Fawdry

P.S. In time the EEPD will need to work like the Wikipedia (and possibly even become a part of the Wikipedia

organisation) with open access for anyone worldwide to contribute to it

still needs to establish itself in it

P.P.S. For more detail as to how you from anywhere in the world might contribute to the EEPD initiative see

the next page.

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This version of “HelpEdit.pdf” is based on “EEPDSOURCE/HelpEdit-15.pages” (18 Jun 2009)

Contributing to the EEPD

Although the website may appear to be very complex, it is almost entirely made up of simple Adobe “.pdf” files,

or Microsoft MS Word “.doc” files - with a few Powerpoint presentations.

Originally Impression Style on Acorn Machines; more recently Virtual Acorn programs on PCs or Macs

Because I have found MS Word to be so clumsy and unreliable, in the past almost all the “.pdf. files have been

created from an Acorn RiscOS Impression Style originals.

Almost all new “.pdf” documents are now created using Apple Mac “.pages” and existing Impression Style files

are also slowly being converted to that format. Each fresh version has a new number e.g. “Events-5.pages” is

the 5

are then regularly converted to an un-numbered “.pdf” file, e.g. “Event.pdf”, before being “published” on the

website in the appropriate place under “www.fawdry.info/eepd/. . . .”

th version of the “Events” file. These, once created and stored under my “EEPDSOURCE” folder. They

Editable “Cut and Past” material all as MS Word “.doc” files.

When it might be useful for text to be available on the internet for local editing or for “cut and paste” by anyone

worldwide, either a) documents, especially patient information leaflets, have been originally created as MS

Word “.doc” files, or b) many files are slowly now being slowly converted from Impression Style into MS Word,

or c) New Documents are first scanned, and then a OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program is used to

create editable MS Word text.

Send me anything you think might be useful

The vast majority of the material needed to make the site grow more useful are therefore relatively easy for

anyone to create and then to sent to me by e-mail. Just send any potentially useful material as “.pdf”, or “.doc”

or “.pages” files or as Powerpoint presentations.

Updating the “Home-Panel” for each Volume is only a little more difficult.

The main home “panels” for each volume have been more difficult to create. But for each volume of the EEPD

I now have a specific landscaped “Home-panel” “.pages” file. This allows all the text to be edited and spell

checked. All relevant “.pdf”, “.doc” or Powerpoint files having been loaded onto the website, the hyperlinks

from these “Home-panels” are then also be checked.

To see what such a Home-panel looks like see

www.fawdry.info/eepd/000__DESIGN/05_LOG/Panel05.pdf

Once this has been done the plain text of each panel, with all styles removed, is being used to revise each

EEPD “Home” panel.

In future any changes to these panels will be highlighted in red until the website text has been brought up to

match any such changes.

Do contact me if you can see any way to help.

Thanks

Rupert

If you want to get an idea of what is on the whole website so far, use the following document.

www.fawdry.info/eepd/000__DESIGN/EEPDList.pdf

the EEPD website, each one with the appropriate hyper-link.

This is a 60 page document, listing all the current files on

Other Languages

In time there will be a need for a similar Encyclopaedia in other Languages e.g. Arabic, Russian, Chinese etc.

If anyone is interested in this concept do get in touch. At first much of the content can usefully be in English,

but the home pages need to be in each new language to encourage native speakers to contribute or to

translate sections. I am happy for such versions to be accessible via the www.fawdry.info website with for

example an Arabic Version to be stored under www.fawdry.info/eepda/ . . .

This version of “HelpEdit.pdf” is based on “EEPDSOURCE/HelpEdit-15.pages” (18 Jun 2009)

Other Specialities and Sub-Specialities

If anyone sees the need for a similar Electronic Encyclopaedia for their own speciality or sub-speciality, a file

with editable text for the various suggested volumes can be accessed on www.fawdry.info/eepd/

000__DESIGN/EETemplate.doc as an MS Word file or . . ./EETemplate.pages as an Apple Pages file.

This version of “HelpEdit.pdf” is based on “EEPDSOURCE/HelpEdit-15.pages” (18 Jun 2009)