A National Perspective

Dr Simon Eccles, Medical Director

NHS Connecting for Health

What is England doing?

• Infrastructure

• N3 – health service

broadband

• NHS Spine

• Personal

Demographics inc

NHS Number

• Access Control

• Secure e-mail

• Healthcare systems

• GP systems inc.

transfers

• Electronic booking

• Mental health systems

• Community systems

• Hospital systems

• Digital imaging

• Summary Care Record

• E-Pathways

How far have we got?

• Infrastructure

• N3 – health service

broadband

• NHS Spine

• Personal

Demographics inc

NHS Number

• Access Control

• Secure e-mail

• Healthcare systems

• GP systems inc.

transfers

• Electronic booking

• Mental health systems

• Community systems

• Hospital systems

• Digital imaging

• Summary Care Record

• E-Pathways

How far have we got?

• Infrastructure

• N3 – health service

broadband

• NHS Spine

• Personal

Demographics inc

NHS Number

• Access Control

• Secure e-mail

• Healthcare systems

• GP systems inc.

transfers

• Electronic booking

• Mental health systems

• Community systems

• Hospital systems

• Digital imaging

• Summary Care Record

• E-Pathways

What does it mean to patients?

• Channel shifts

• Control

• Access

Channel Shifting

What does it mean for

clinicians?

• Data availability

• Data sharing

• Knowledge support

And for population health?

And for care planning?

• The data fire hose

• Options for data amalgamation as never before

Issues

• Standardisation v. localisation

• Datasets

• Pathways

• Differing views on sharing

• Hospital v. family doctors

• Financial Circumstances

Costs v. Values

• Banking and text

messages v. blood

test results

• RFID tags in

supermarkets v.

hospitals

How will this change care?

• GP to GP

• Communicator

• SMS messages

• Summary Care Record

• The power of data to initiate internal change