CIRU Away Day 22
Training & team building for the Clinical Informatics Research Unit
On the 18th July we returned to the beautiful Rhinefield House Hotel (a firm favourite of ours for the CIRU Away Days) located in Brockenhurst, New Forest, for the CIRU Away Day 2022. With 39 members of staff, most of the department was in attendance, including all members of the EDGE team (Developers and Knowledge Officers) as well as members from the wider CIRU team (such as Research Fellows, our CORE Analyst Programmers, and Operational staff including our Programme and Marketing teams).
The day was an opportunity for CIRU staff to get together in person (after the long work from home period), which continues for most of our staff. It was an opportunity to meet new members of the team and welcome some of our Sri Lankan colleagues as they begin their time here at CIRU, learning about what we do and the systems and services we provide to the NHS (such as EDGE) to further organisation types around the globe.
The day was led by our Head of Operations Baljinder Gill and Director Professor James Batchelor. Both Bal and James gave a general update on how the Unit is doing and how it has grown over the last 20+ years. Further discussions took place involving the entire department and important information was shared and presented amongst the individual teams. This was valuable in connecting different members of staff together and resulted in each of us having a much better understanding of the different roles and work taking place within CIRU. There was a true element of ‘working together’ throughout the day and it was the perfect chance for everyone to get up to speed on what is happening within the Unit (especially how things with EDGE are developing).
The CIRU Away Day 2022 was certainly a successful day and brought the whole team closer together, sharing useful information as well as lots of laughs and smiles.