Humber and North Yorkshire ICB has announced the expansion of a data dashboard developed in partnership with York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, aiming to support a “more coordinated approach” to improving health and helping people into work.
The People Story Dashboard aligns data with the boundaries of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Greater Lincolnshire Combined Authority. It has been made available, according to the ICB, to inform local planning and commissioning decisions for local partners across the region.
ICB chair Jason Stamp notes that the updated dashboard “is an excellent tool to support the work, health and skills agenda within Humber and North Yorkshire”, supporting the ICB and combined authorities towards common goals, and support strategic planning and commissioning “through the delivery of high-quality data and insights”.
The Power BI dashboard is interactive, with visuals reportedly designed to interact with one another where possible. Individual datasets and metrics are available on topics including economic activity, deprivation, and specific health indicators such as weight status, anxiety disorder, hypertension, depression, asthma, diabetes, frailty, cancer, and more. Metrics can then be broken down by age, sex, and regional areas like local authority and district.
Data is also in development for fit notes by sub-ICB; job postings including in-demand industries and skills; and transport, including connectivity scores for public transport, and access to healthcare services.
Wider trend: Health data
The board of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has updated on the expansion of its Hive EPR across local care organisations, the introduction of a digital and data academy, and the launch of a new secure data analytics platform. The EPR expansion represents a move toward a single, unified patient record for acute and community care, the trust explains, covering more than 150 services across Manchester and Trafford LCO community health services. Phase 0 of the project was completed in June, according to MFT, covering pre-implementation mobilisation activities such as establishing programme governance, recruiting and onboarding the implementation team, and completing programme planning.
The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned a national programme of engagement for GPs and practice managers, to “genuinely influence” national policy with their views on how patient data is used across the NHS. Views and everyday experiences of GPs and practice managers are sought across three key areas: individual patient care and how health professionals can access or add to the GP patient record; how patient data is used for routine planning at regional and national levels; and how patient data is used for research into new treatments and medications.
The NHS England Getting It Right First Time programme has shared a report on improving care and support for children and young adults living with diabetes to highlight the use of data, digital, wearable tech, digital self-management tools, and digitally enabled pathways. A review drawing on national audit and activity datasets, along with local insight, identified “excellent practice in many places”, GIRFT programme lead and NHSE national director for clinical improvement, elective recovery, and UEC Tim Briggs revealed. “But it also shows that variation is driven less by clinical complexity than by system design: diffuse accountability, inconsistent standards, workforce and infrastructure pressures, and a persistent failure to turn good data into sustained action.”
