Liberating the NHS :

An Information Revolution

Kathy MasonDH Informatics Directorate

Vision for the NHS

• Set out in July White PaperEquity and Excellence : Liberating the NHS

• Put patients at the heart of everything we do

• Achieve outcomes that are among the best in the world

• Empower clinicians to deliver results based on the needs of patients

A Patient Revolution

• Puts people in the driving seat, “ No decision about me without me” shared decision making the norm

• A commitment to giving people more information and control and greater choice about their care

• Presumption of choice - any willing provider in the vast majority of NHS-funded services by 2013/14

• Information as the fundamental to supporting greater choice and control and greater efficiency

A Patient Revolution

• Public consultations launched on Monday 18 October

• An Information Revolution and Greater Choice and Control

• Focus is on ‘putting people first’

An Information Revolution

• Give patients control, access to their own information,

• Away from top down information - aggregation of data collected as part of care process

• Build bridges across different parts of the system, open, transparent & comparable

• Information providers marketplace, free to innovate and tailor

• Connect all, enable greater efficiency

• Ownership of health outcome - active participants

• Beyond surveys to dialogue

• Changing the shape of service

• Informed Choice

• Improved satisfaction with service

Impact of patient empowerment

Delivering an Information Revolution

• Capture data at the point of care

• Increase structured data

• Give patients control of records

• Free data from applications it is trapped in

• Publish not Polish

• Compare outcomes

• Use the market to improve insight

• Reuse

• Innovate

Transparency

Developing an Information Strategy

• Iterative• Recognised methodologies• Built on real consultation with all Stakeholders• Implementable• Stages of development

– Policy and business framework– Identify options, information needs & delivery

mechanisms– System wide implementation plans, levels of

mandation, balanced costs and benefits

• Engagement and communications teams InformationRevolution@dh.gsi.gov.uk and ChoiceConsultation@dh.gsi.gov.uk

• Online consultation platforms. www.dh.gov.uk/informationrevolution and www.dh.gov.uk/choice

• Consultation until 14 Jan 2011, Engagement ongoing