The Alliance this week held a workshop to formally kick off its digital interoperability workstream – all about ensuring that IT systems work better together to ensure the very best care for cancer patients.
Discussions at the ‘current state’ workshop will form the foundations for a plan of action, including a number of ‘quick wins’ – projects that can be kicked off immediately to begin the process of real improvement. The next workshop to report on progress and develop further work programmes will be held in the autumn. You can view it here.
What else has been happening this week?
On Wednesday, NHS England announced that Yorkshire and Humber is one of five areas chosen to take part in the national Local Health and Care Record Exemplar programme. This programmes aims to reduce unnecessary patient tests and improve patient safety through better working between hospitals, GPs and social care. Each new partnership will receive up to £7.5 million over two years to put in place an electronic shared local health and care record that makes the relevant information about people instantly available to everyone involved in their care and support. Work to deliver our LHCRE programme will be led by the Yorkshire and Humber Digital Care Board, chaired by Rob Webster, lead Chief Executive Officer of the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, and including Sir Andrew Cash and Simon Pleydell (Chief Executive Officers of the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw ICS and Humber, Coast & Vale STP respectively), and CEO representatives from the local government, NHS trust and CCG sectors. We have ambitious plans to use open platform technology to promote a strong community focused approach to integration rooted in the extended primary care model to promote prevention, intervention, self-management and care closer to home.
On Wednesday we were joined by Professor Sir Chris Ham, Professor Don Berwick and Anna Charles from the Kings Fund. The morning session was focused on the work of our Cancer Alliance with Sean Duffy, Amanda Bloor Clive Kay and Carol Ferguson. The conversation focused on how we can work effectively across organisational boundaries to deliver the best possible outcomes; how we can really strengthen patient and public participation in everything we do; and how we might create some space from regulation to focus on what is important. In the afternoon we were joined by members of the System Leadership Executive and the Clinical Forum to have a wider conversation about how we develop a model of mutual accountability as we move towards a ‘self-governing’ system.
The WY&H Public Health Co-ordination Group met on Thursday, chaired by Ian Cameron. The group discussed the Health Needs Assessment for the Stroke Programme, and how it connects to national thinking around Population Health Management.
The WY&H Directors of Finance met on Wednesday to discuss capital priorities for the Wave 4 capital process, and approaches to allocation of transformation funding.
The national Personalised Care Collaborative met yesterday. West Yorkshire and Harrogate is a demonstrator site for personalisation and representatives from our places attended the session to share what works and barriers to implementing personalised care.
Recruitment for the new WY&H Cancer Alliance Community Panel is now well underway - Over the past several weeks, Fraser Corry the new Community Panel Coordinator has been working hard to put together a recruitment poster, application form and information pack for those interested in becoming panel members. Throughout June, Fraser has attended several patient meetings at Wakefield and Huddersfield and held a recruitment day of action at Pinderfields Hospital to raise awareness of the panel and bring more people on board. So far, several panel members have joined from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, with more applications expected to arrive over the coming weeks. On 29 June 2018, the Yorkshire Cancer Patients Forums AGM was held at St George's Conference Centre, Leeds where Fraser presented the progress on community panel to an audience of cancer patients, carers and those with a general interest in cancer care. Further information and resources can be found at https://
What’s happening next week?
- Our WY&H Leadership Day is on Tuesday. This will include an extended System Leadership Executive at which we will be discussing a new approach to peer review, capital and revenue priorities and establishing a new relationship with the national bodies.
- ITV Calendar will be broadcasting live from Airedale NHS Trust at 6pm on Monday 2nd July 2018 as part of their NHS at 70 series, showcasing different NHS services across the region. They will be broadcasting from inside the theatres, where they will interview CEO Brendan Brown and senior perioperative support worker Nichola McGhee.