The Professional Record Standards Body has been asked by NH Digital to develop national standards for social care.
The aim is to create national standards that support the roll-out and adoption of successful tech projects.
Last month NHS Digital announced funding of £4.5 million to support 16 health tech and digitisation projects, with a view to roll-out nationally if proved successful.
The first stage of the PRSB project will be to work with local areas to agree which situations need national standards to support better care for people. For example, when a person is transferred from a care home to a hospital in an emergency. Following this research stage the organisation will develop and publish a plan.
The selected Social Care Digital Pathfinders to receive a share of £4.5m, managed by NHS Digital, have commenced a 13 month implementation phase before sharing learnings, for projects to be then introduced to other organisations.
The Pathfinders include:
| Bristol City Council | Real Time co-ordination of packages of care and digital workflows across their Integrated Care Bureau. |
| Friends of the Elderly | Roll out of integrated Acoustic Monitoring Technology with Digital Care Planning. |
| Hft (learning disabilities charity) | Roll out of “My Health Guide” for Learning Disabilities across large user groups. |
| Lancashire County Council | Implementation of digital discharge messaging service (ADW) and integration with local health care record. |
| Leicestershire County Council | Rollout of NHSmail and access to Electronic Patient Record to care providers. Scale during programme is 60% of Leicestershire care homes accredited (200+). |
| London Borough of Bexley | Use of remote monitoring and predictive data analytics to positively impact a person’s wellbeing and quality of life – aiming to prevent, reduce and defer the escalation of needs. Development of an evidential base to demonstrate the interdependent relationship between a person’s social, physical, mental health and social care outcomes. |
| London Borough of Islington | Free Text for predictive analytics across large region. Scale during programme is four local authorities across North Central London. |
| National Care Forum | Creating a network of innovation hubs designed to assist and inspire the care and support sector to embrace technological and digital innovations which improve the lives of people accessing, or working in, their services. |
| Manchester City Council | Extending digital discharge service (ADW) across the region. Scale during programme is 11 local authorities. |
| Nottinghamshire County Council | Developing current interoperability standards across health and social care in partnership with national programmes. Intention is to scale this nationally, including at least two Local Health and Care Record (LHCR) organisations. |
| South Gloucestershire Council | Extending Connecting Care to care homes, and Digital Red Bag. Scale during programme is three local authorities and a number of care homes. |
| Sutton Council | Expansion and standardisation of the digital red bag. Scale during programme is 20% care homes across SW London and national capability. |
| Westminster City Council | Expansion of care information exchange to care providers, local authorities and carers. Scale during programme is four local authorities and two trusts with potential for whole NWL region. |
| Wirral Council | Extending digital discharge service (ADW) functionality. Scale during programme is national. |
| Wolverhampton City Council | Extend range of data for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning e.g. delayed discharges, housing, education, police and crime, socio-economic factors, the environment, private sector. Scale during programme is across two local authority areas with potential to extend across STP footprint. |
| Worcestershire County Council | Extending AI and Data Modelling to include Telecare and Assistive Tech Data. Scale during programme is across two local authority areas with potential to extend across STP footprint. |
