East of England Adult Critical Care Network is partnering with Mela Solutions on a shared analytics project to deepen data-driven understanding of the region’s critical care services which has already, according to the company, helped to highlight a “significant improvement in admission delay” from the 2024 to 2025 time period.
The ambitions of the project include harnessing data insights to inform decision-making, improve coordination across the system, identify areas for improvement, and enhance outcomes for critically ill patients. It has been supported by the information management and technology department at Peterborough City Hospital, which has helped with storing and processing care data, as well as offering support with enabling data feeds and implementation.
Reportedly, the platform has so far been populated with data from more than 220,000 admissions and 1.2 million assessment days. It highlights Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre performance indicators and grants the ability for clinicians to filter and compare data using a range of different options.
The network goes on to offer thanks to teams at Peterborough City Hospital, adding: “Working alongside partners and all adult critical care units, the network recognises this as a meaningful step forward in how data is used to support critical care. The Network Analytics Project is building a stronger evidence base to guide clinical and operational decisions, while facilitating cross-organisation communication and shared learning.”
Mela Solutions also took to LinkedIn to share news of the partnership.
Wider trend: Data in supporting more informed care
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has published a new strategy to 2031 with focuses on embracing innovation and taking advantage of opportunities from digital and data to better coordinate care, improve clinical decision support, and gain insight into demand. Endeavouring to embed continuous improvement and innovation for a sustainable future, the service sets out areas of focus including a move toward digital, data, and tech-enabled care, relying on digital tools, strong data, and innovations to improve services for patients.
The renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England has been published, making a series of commitments to promoting women’s health and empowering women with a stronger say in their care, utilising digital tools to improve access, control, and care pathways for women’s health conditions. As part of this, a renewed focus will be placed on the collection of data on women’s voices, “embedding new approaches so that women’s voices resonate from ward to board”, integrating sources of data so women’s reported experiences and outcomes form a fundamental part of NHS data and performance information.
The newly-created Central East ICB, formed from Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough ICB, and Hertfordshire, has revealed its five-year approach from strategy to delivery, highlighting the role of digital and data in achieving objectives and improving outcomes for the local population. The ICB makes a number of commitments around data, stating “high quality, timely data will be non-negotiable”. Contracts will set out expectations for data sharing and quality, it continues, and rather than being considered “an administrative add-on”, data will form a core enabler of improvement and accountability work. Over the next three years, the system’s data approach will look to build a single, shared foundation to support better decision-making, with the aim of having a unified view of data to help understand need, target interventions, and track outcomes.
