Fiona Mills
Deputy head of nursing informatics
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Fiona Mills is senior nurse informatics lead at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH). An experienced children’s nurse, she began her digital nursing career in 2013 by clinically supporting the electronic medications administration and prescribing roll out at the Oxford Children’s Hospital. Four years later, she became one of the first nursing informatics leads at OUH, and in 2019, began her current role leading on digital processes and strategies across two divisions in her organisation.
Ms Mills is passionate about digital nursing and ensuring patient safety is at the core of digital strategy. A significant part of her role involves ensuring a user-centred, evidence-based design of digital systems. She also supports nurses to develop their digital skills within clinical healthcare settings and teaches on the nursing undergraduate course at Oxford Brookes University. Academically, she has a BSc degree in children’s nursing, a postgraduate diploma in advanced nursing practice (clinical), and an MSc degree in health informatics. She is also a member of the RCN’s digital nursing forum, the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and chair of the oracle paediatric specialist interest group. As part of these roles, she brings clinicians together using the Oracle (Cerner) platform.
Fiona Mills is speaking at the following session on Thursday 24 October:
The fundamentals of Electronic Patient Records: what is data? How is it used? How can it impact my role and my patients?