Acknowledgements (In prep)

 

So many people have, over the years, helped me to keep going even when times were specially tough that this is only the outline of a much larger list which I eventually need to create - but at least it‘s a start!

Family

Irina, my wife

who, despite major suffering, has so well supported me for the past ten years.

Judy, my first wife,

who managed to cope with me and my obsessive nature for over 30 years

Alison

my fantastic eldest daughter, now a married GP in New Zealand now with two grand-children.

Mariam

my equally fantastic but different middle daughter, now coping with four of my grandchildren in Vancouver

Jenny

my equally fantastic but different youngest daughter, now working among the dispossessed in downtown Vancouver.

 

Dad - Alan

my wonderful long suffering but uncomplaining father who gave me my first computer, a BBC B and who remains my inspiration in medicine, in life and especially in my Christian faith.

 

Mum - Hazel

Who started to suffer from her undiagnosed gluten sensitivity shortly after my birth but who, somehow, even when so ill, in 1941 managed, with me aged three months old until aged two, as a fellow refugee in South Africa, to play her part in giving me a personality which has survived far more than the average degree of stress in my eventful life.

 

Mainstays (Chronological)

John Scrimgeour

who first saw and encouraged my interest in audit,  and later in the possible use of computers to reduce human errors in maternity care. After my return from Iran he diverted me from ”Suicide, General Practice or Emigration” by funding me with soft funding as a research registrar and then paid for the first microcomputer on which I could learn about writing programs.

 

Richard Lilford

Fellow founder member, with Mike Maresh and Tim Chard of the British Obstetric Computer Society.

 

Jason Gardosi

First met when he was my SHO in his first Obst/Gyn post. Even then clearly due to be the Professor he eventually became. Energy behind the (West Midlands) Perinatal Unit.

 

Mike Lumb

Recruited as the obstetric registrar for the M.U.M.M.M.I.E.S. project. Good friend ever since. Now a consultant in Peterborough

 

Ralph Settatree

Outstanding colleague whom I got to know most while working on the National Pregnancy Record Project.

 

Susan Bewley

Wonderful encourager in hard times.

 

Alan Mather

Who worked the miracle that I have been allowed to work as a locum consultant in all the main Glasgow maternity units for the past two years as the climax of my medical career.

Essential Milton Keynes Obstetric Colleagues

Graham McCune, Chris B-Lynch - my two original colleagues in Milton Keynes who allowed me to pioneer Woman Held Pregnancy Records and to help create and install the Protos Maternity Computer System. (later taken over by iSoft)

Editorial Help

Kay Williams editor of my Hybrids article and to Sally Marchant, MIDIRS editor who finally provided the means to reach a wider audience with that crucial summary of all my EPR conclusions.  

 

Essential Computer Help

All those at Protos, especially Phil Godfrey, James Barrett and David Grewcock

Andrew Rawnsley of RComp and his supportive parents at www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk   √

Kevin Marshall who did the first design of the website, Nash Hunter who contributed to the next phase.

John Ballance (lwb@rosery.net)   √ originally of Castle RiscOS machines who has many times provided telephone IT support.

 

More than anyone in IT

Above all I express my thanks to Lee Gunn, based in the very north of Scotland. 

 

I first met him when he was only aged 17 and he has been a vital supporter ever since. Time and again he has encouraged me not to give up but instead has encouraged me to give him some more material to add to the EEPD website. 

He now has his own website design business http://noswebservices.co.uk/about_us.htm   √

 

                                                                  Rupert Fawdry. 18 Feb 2010.