Information Revolution and Greater Choice and Control - webchat Nov 9

Put your questions about the Information Revolution and Greater Choice and Control direct to Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health, on November 9 at 1.30pm.

People can ask questions in advance by emailing:
informationrevolution AT dh.gsi.gov.uk - or -

 by Tweeting their question, using the hashtag #inforevolution.

The webchat will be available from November 9 at www.dh.gov.uk/informationrevolution and you can watch the live Q&A on screen, ask questions and leave comments. We will also be tweeting Andrew Lansley's answers and the comments we receive. A transcript of the webchat will be available on the website after the event.

I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of any interested individuals or groups.

With best wishes

Anne Cooper
National Clinical Lead for Nursing
Office of the Chief Clinical Officer
NHS Connecting for Health
anne.cooper AT nhs.net
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk
NHS Connecting for Health supports the NHS in providing better, safer care by delivering computer systems and services which improve the way patient information is stored and accessed.
Additional link:
http://conversations.dh.gov.uk/2010/10/17/home/
My source:
British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group

Prognosis for NPfIT remains uncertain - 21 May 2010 - Computing

While the coalition government’s Programme for Government reiterates previous commitments around technology and civil liberties, IT procurement and broadband rollout, it is noticeably silent on the future of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with no mention of Conservative promises prior to the election to dismantle the "NHS supercomputer" or the Liberal Democrats' pledge to scrap large parts of the NPfIT.
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Prognosis for NPfIT remains uncertain - 21 May 2010 - Computing

Workshop - Delivering High Quality Health Care for All: Bringing the social and technical together...

My SOURCE: SOCIOTECH at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Dear Colleague,

Please find details attached of a Think Tank focused on developing socio-technical approaches to the provision of healthcare (in the context of the National Programme for IT in the NHS).
Please note that attendance is restricted to around 30 people and that anyone wishing to contribute will need to apply (as specified in the attachment) - which follows below PJ.

Thanks and best wishes

Chris
P.S. please feel free to circulate these details to colleagues who you think may be interested. Thank you.

Professor Chris W Clegg
Centre for Socio-Technical Systems Design
Leeds University Business School
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
c.w.clegg at leeds.ac.uk

Delivering High Quality Health Care for All:
Bringing the social and technical together for a joined-up approach to deliver supporting systems and technologies
10th/11th December 2009

Call for contributions to an event organised by the UK Faculty of Health Informatics and the BCS Socio-Technical Group

Core idea
This 2-day Think-Tank event has been set up to discuss and report on how Health and Social Care employers and other key stakeholders in the Informatics field might bring about a joined-up approach to the implementation of electronic health records, one that brings together changes both in technology and in the social practices around it.

Rationale
The National Audit Office’s report on “Delivering successful IT-enabled business change” see: www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/06-07/060733es.pdf and the University College London Evaluation report on the Early Adopters of the Summary Care Records project (see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/openlearning/documents/scrie2008.pdf) both highlight the challenges of implementing technology-based projects within a fixed time line and how this can reduce the opportunities to get a more “user-centred” approach to change.

In many sectors of the UK economy the drive to get the technology ‘on desk, on time, and on budget’ can mitigate against developing a full understanding and consideration of how the changes may be of real practical value to users and customers.

It is increasingly recognised that ‘technology-push’ will not be enough in its own right to achieve the full benefits and efficiencies that are being sought in service delivery. Rather, we need to bring about innovations both in the technical systems, and in the working practices, work roles and processes that surround them. Put bluntly we need a more joined-up approach to change. This has been variously called ‘user-centred’ or ‘socio-technical’ or ‘holistic’.

Objectives
The objectives of this event are to discuss and subsequently report on –
• What does such a joined-up approach mean in practice?
• What examples exist from across the UK Health and Social care sector where such approaches have been used?
• Who has to do what, to make it happen consistently across the NHS and Social Care services?
• How will we know if it is succeeding?

Organisers
The event has been organised by the UK Faculty of Health Informatics and the BCS Socio-Technical Group.

The event will be chaired jointly by Professor Chris Clegg, Chair of the British Computer Society’s Socio-Technical Group the and Doctor Beverley Ellis, Joint Vice-Chair of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics.

Getting involved as a contributor or delegate at the event
If you wish to attend the Think Tank, please submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) to Bruce Elliott, Co-ordinator of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics at bruceelliott@nhs.net by 28th September 2009.

Your EOI should include brief summary (of up to 200 words) of your role, experience and expertise in this context.

Please note we are seeking people from a range of stakeholder groups including:

• Acute Hospitals
• Suppliers
• Health and Care Commissioning organisations
• Primary and Community Care Providers
• End users of nationally-led systems, e.g., CMS, SCR, ECR
• Connecting for Health, Informing Healthcare and the Scottish Government’s E-Health Programme
• Academics
• Patient Leads

In the event that we are over-subscribed, we will select people so as to provide an appropriate balance of experience and expertise, to ensure the Think Tank can meet its objectives.

Please make it clear in your EOI if you would also like to present a short paper at the event. In such a case please also add a brief abstract of your proposed paper (of up to 200 words).

If you have been allocated a place you will receive written confirmation along with a copy of the final programme by 16th October 2009.

Associated papers
In November 2009, a Position paper capturing some of the Key Challenges in adopting Socio-Technical approaches will be shared with the participants to identify some of the key issues that will be addressed at the event.

Following the event, up to 5 contributors to the event will be commissioned to write papers on the topics and issues emerging, with the aim of informing key stakeholders in how Socio-Technical approaches can be utilised effectively across the NHS and Social Care. These papers will be completed by the end of January 2010, for inclusion in an overall Briefing report. We will also be actively exploring avenues for wider publication in order that the good ideas can be spread and acted on.

Location
Weetwood Hotel and Conference Centre, Leeds

GIS a look (and learn)!

Starting work yesterday my colleagues and I had a real surprise.

The boss greeted us as positive, jovial, forward thinking and smiling as ever. Something seemed strange, but as we got to our floor we were handed some note paper and briefed - very briefly - about a "local surprise for you hard-working, dedicated clinicians".

So it was off to the desk and on with the log-in. The surprise came with the provision of a series of maps and questions and exercises. The maps just like google maps, multimaps and other variants provided various views and choices of emphasis; street, satellite and several boundaries: our organization's borders the frontiers of partner PCTs, GP practices, social services. After all these decades GIS had arrived on the clinician's desktop.

There was more to follow though. My mug-shot was there in addition to my colleagues (ah... I'd wondered what that recent (online*) form was for). Drag and dropping this beautiful pic on the map the nursing homes pulsed (as if to confirm that I am alive at least clinically) and changed colour. I know something about drill down, aggregation and such like and there they were: caseload parameters: gender, referral source, diagnosis (if known), drug classes, MMSE. I was getting heady as it was possible to look at clients living at home AND/OR residential care. I nearly flipped when there was more available about the referrers and not just the frequency of referrals but the expected frequencies too. There was going to be quite a compare and contrast exercise there post-2011 Census.

On another map I suddenly thought of 'use the bus Ethel': a carer who when she could went everywhere and also used the trains. Active body : Active mind and there it was - the travel logistics and public transport routes across the patch. This was not just GIS on the clinician's desktop it was GIS for the caseload manager. What proportion of my caseload was within 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 .... miles of base?

Individual insight aside there was team oversight too, a tool to engage in peer group supervision - with (and get this) tools for the 'integrated health and social care team' to investigate local commissioning and how that factors in geographically. Amazing! Yes there are tools to do all this now, but they are not in the hands of the people they should be. Reports are just for managers? What a waste!!

I was just really getting ready to do that piano-playing-finger-flexing thing that you do when you are about to be extraordinarily creative. I mean I had waited for this, public MENTAL health.... my mouth was dry and here it was - GIS nirvana...

Then it happened....

It was time to wake up and get to work.

I won't stop dreaming though....

*I should have recognised it was a dream at this point.

Additional links:

Welcome to the GIS Files

The 2011 Census: Office for National Statistics

Free Our Data

ESRI

Mapinfo

SCIENCES knowledge domain: GIS resources under 'Health & Social Informatics I, G.I.S., Classification, Coding, Data Sets & Grouping'

Image sources: Ordnance Survey

Crossroads http://www.photochart.com/photo_1189_Crossroads.html
Copyright Olga Dunaeva member of Photochart

UK NHS Connecting for Health: Services and Systems

It is surprising what you can find behind an interface 'tab'. In doing some homework around e-Health, I came across this listing of 'Systems and Services' on the Connecting for Health website. It is a great springboard for exploration. Although public sector ICT is frequently the subject of media ire this listing brings home the complexity, diversity and scope of the ground breaking work that has and is being done. Add to this listing the 'research and development' effort also being undertaken elsewhere and despite the current economic climate there are some things to smile about.

Alphabetical: A to I	Alphabetical: J to Z
Addressing Blood safety tracking pilot Capability & Capacity Choose and Book Clinical Dashboards Data Services Demographics Deployment support Education, Training and Development (ETD) Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) ePrescribing GP Support Health and Social Care Integration Programme HealthSpace Implementation Independent Sector Healthcare Programme Information Governance (IG)	N3 - The National Network NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) NHS Gateway NHSmail NHS Number NHS Strategic Tracing Service (NSTS) Pathology Messaging Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) Professionalising Health Informatics (PHI) Registration Authorities and Smartcards Research Capability Programme Spine Secondary Uses Service (SUS) Systems & Service Delivery

My source: Connecting for Health http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices

I will also share that homework in due course.