Presentation / Discussion Overview

Community Health Services Digital – setting the scene: Dan Cowie, Paul Danvers, Angela Wood

VCSE – Sarah French. Vision/Hearing

    • Optom. engagement, hospitalized services, connecting into the adult social care contract for rehab and then grant- funded charitable work;
    • use of Charity Log software
    • Gap identified – writing to GPs for updated information and medication; complicated information sharing.
      • Can direct e-referrals from GPs be implemented against NHS contracted work?
    • Opportunity: VCSE to better evidence the impact that they have as a sector. This will aid the sector being taken into consideration when looking at community health and the health of the communities that we’re working with.

Local Authority – Tracy Leckenby, DCC, attending on behalf of Diane Moore.

    • Digital support in provider market and digital innovation, supporting independent sector, children’s and adult services across MH, older people, etc. Focus on keeping people at home and keeping people well;
    • hospital discharge and supporting this area of work with digital.
    • Paul Danvers to be added as member of LA Regional technology group

AHSN Digital transformation team – Robin Blythe.

    • Includes Healthcall rollout;
    • Monthly digital collaboration group (focus on Care Homes);
    • Profiling digital solutions in ICS within Care Homes;
    • Vitalertor underbed sensor pilot

My Care, My Home, My Way event – Tech in Health, Housing & Social Care event

Digitisation of Care Homes – Sam Clement.

    • Records digitisation, future tech support and independent living; also inc. domiciliary care

NHS Acute Trust Community Teams:

South Tyneside & Sunderland – Nicola Kirkby.

    • Working with Luscii on proactive management of people with LTCs, tech-enabled self-care;
    • Taking learning into VWs;
    • Looking into EmisX for increased interoperability.
    • Challenge regarding cross-border working with patients in VWs

Gateshead – Jayne Reynolds.

    • Emis Community used on mobile devices;
    • Working on pulling LA social care data into BI warehouse to facilitate discharges;
    • Also working on 2hr UCR data capture.

North Tees & Hartlepool – Bob Warnock.

    • S1 Community;
    • Using S1 comms annex to send patients URLs, questionnaires for pre-assessments;
    • S1 Visualisations (e.g. use for Rockwood scores over 3 years for a patient);
    • Heart failure @home and VW on Healthcall platform;
    • Working on Whzan interoperability with S1;
    • Community OPTICA group collecting data from both health and social care EPRs – focus community beds
    • Connected Bob to Robin’s CH collaboration group for Whzan interoperability journey learning from other areas

Community Health Services Digital – Dan Cowie.

    • Developing strategy, aligned to WGLL and ICS strategy.
    • CHSD plan as part of Ageing Well Action Plan ’23-24