A Digital Framework for Allied Health Professionals Our 3 Ambitions
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England 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001A Digital 01101100 Framework 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101for Allied00100000 Health01100001 01101000 01110000 00100000Professionals 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01101001 01100011 01100101 01110011 #AHPsintoAction H t u Contents Contents 2 and interoperability with shared services and partner organisations? 17 Contents Foreword by Suzanne Rastrick, Digitally enabled AHP service transformation 18 Foreword by Suzanne Chief Allied Health Professions Officer 3 Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Ambition 3: Data enabled AHP services 19 Professions Officer Introduction 4 Data enabled AHP services: framework for Introduction A call for collective action 5 local action 20 All AHPs 5 A call for collective action Additional information on effective AHP leaders and managers 5 Our 3 ambitions integration and interoperability 22 System leaders 5 Ambition 1: Useful resources 24 Digitally ready AHP services Our 3 ambitions 6 Useful case studies 26 Ambition 2: Ambition 1: Digitally ready AHP services 7 Digitally mature AHP services Digital leadership 7 Glossary 27 Ambition 3: Digitally ready AHPs 7 Data enabled AHP services AHPs in clinical informatics 8 Effective integration and interoperability Ambition 2: Digitally mature AHP services 9 Useful resources Effective use of core digital capabilities 10 What are digital capabilities and what do Useful case studies we mean by effective use? 10 Glossary Records, assessments and care plans 10 Transfers of care 11 Medicines management and optimisation 12 Orders and results management 13 Asset and resource optimisation 14 Decision support 15 Remote care 16 Effective integration and Interoperability 17 What do we mean by effective integration 2 H t u Foreword by Suzanne Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Contents The use of information and technology has the and influence this Foreword by Suzanne power to improve health, care and wellbeing. It can work to ensure it Rastrick, Chief Allied Health give patients, service users and citizens more control delivers for service Professions Officer over their health, and is key to the NHS meeting the users, the AHP quality, safety and efficiency challenges it faces. workforce, and the Introduction As individuals, in our personal and social lives we broader health and A call for collective action increasingly expect to use digital services to manage wellbeing of citizens. Our 3 ambitions our finances, communication and shopping. Digital AHPs will need to work with their Chief Clinical Ambition 1: capabilities and data have transformed other Information Officer’s (CCIO’s), Chief Information Digitally ready AHP services industries in a way many would not have imagined Officer’s (CIO’s), technology, information and a decade ago. There have been benefits and finance leads to understand how they can use Ambition 2: Digitally mature AHP services challenges with this transformation, and as allied digital capabilities and health technologies available health professions (AHPs) we have an individual to achieve the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Ambition 3: and collective responsibility to develop our use of Plan. AHPs will need to clearly articulate what Data enabled AHP services these digital capabilities and data, anticipate the technologies and capabilities are required and what Effective integration challenges and realise the benefits. impact this will have on patient care and service and interoperability Enabling AHPs to use information and technology delivery. This Digital Framework for Allied Health Useful resources is therefore one of 4 priorities in AHPs into Professionals supports local services to help them to do this. Useful case studies Action. This Digital Framework for Allied Health Professionals supports local services and AHPs to Together we can ensure we deliver digital and data Glossary make that happen and works towards services enabled AHP services both individually as citizens that are both paper-free at the point of care and and as AHPs, for the benefit of our service users and connected to other services and systems. the wider health and care system. Across England local organisations are working together within Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) to assess digital maturity. From these assessments local health communities are planning, prioritising and investing in digital Suzanne Rastrick, capabilities that support their broader ambitions Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for improving local services. As AHP leaders at a national and local level we need to engage with 3 H t u Introduction Technology will play a central role in realising the It is aimed at AHPs, managers of AHP services and Long Term Plan, helping clinicians use the full range Contents leaders of the wider health and social care system of their skills, reducing bureaucracy, stimulating at a national, regional and local level, supporting Foreword by Suzanne research and enabling service transformation. them to: Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer This digital framework is a practical guide for • Contextualise strategic digital developments for commissioners,managers on achieving the the AHPs. Introduction commitment made in Personalised Health and Care • Engage AHPs in wider digital strategy at a local, A call for collective action 2020 to use information and technology to make regional and national level. sure patient records are digital and interoperable. Our 3 ambitions • Use a framework that can be tailored according It supports the approaches the wider health and to local, regional, professional need and clinical Ambition 1: care system is using to support the development focus. Digitally ready AHP services of Local Digital Roadmaps, the use of the Digital Ambition 2: Maturity Assessment and The future of healthcare: • Identify operational examples and case studies Digitally mature AHP services our vision for digital, data and technology in health to engage the wider AHP workforce in digital developments. Ambition 3: and care (2018). Data enabled AHP services From our work with national and local partners we • Enable AHPs to contribute to the overall system know that there are several components to becoming pressures, support new and innovative ways of Effective integration and interoperability a digitally mature AHP service. These are presented working. as 3 ambitions for digitally mature AHP services: Useful resources This framework provides a structured approach that 1. Digitally ready AHP services AHPs, AHP leaders and systems leaders can use to Useful case studies 2. Digitally mature AHP services start assessing and acting on their current levels of Glossary 3. Data enabled AHP services digitisation and achieving the aims above. This framework has been produced using national policy and strategy, advice from the National Digital AHPs steering group, and a series of regional events with AHPs. Allied Health Professions are: art therapists, dramatherapists, music therapists, chiropodists/podiatrists, dietitians, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, osteopaths, prosthetists and orthotists, paramedics, physiotherapists, diagnostic radiographers, therapeutic radiographers, speech and language therapists. 4 H t u A call for collective action All AHPs Contents All AHPs should: Foreword by Suzanne 1. Ensure that their continuous professional development (CPD) includes the development of Rastrick, Chief Allied Health digital literacies to support their current and future practice. Professions Officer 2. Use digital and data capabilities to support local quality improvement. Introduction 3. Work in partnership with local teams to develop the necessary digital and data capabilities to A call for collective action support local digital priorities. Our 3 ambitions AHP leaders and managers Ambition 1: AHP leaders and managers should: Digitally ready AHP services 1. Use this resource to review local progress and prioritise actions to develop digitally mature AHP services. Ambition 2: 2. Ensure you are familiar with priorities for digital transformation from your local sustainability and Digitally mature AHP services transformation partnerships. Ambition 3: 3. Identify local education and training requirements for staff to support a digitally literate and Data enabled AHP services empowered workforce. Effective integration 4. Engage with your Chief Clinical Information Officer, Chief Information Officer and Director of Finance and interoperability to identify how you can address local priorities for the digitisation of AHP services. Useful resources 5. Evaluate and demonstrate the impact of your digitisation activities, and work collaboratively with other Useful case studies AHP services to share knowledge and insights. Glossary System leaders System leaders at a national, regional and local level should: 1. Involve strategic and clinical AHP leads in your digital programmes, incorporating AHP service requirements in planning, procurement, delivery and optimisation of digital capabilities. 2. Ensure that local digital systems are developed to support the collection of meaningful structured and structured data on AHPs services and outcomes. 3. Ensure the impact of AHP services on system priorities and performance are included in digital data sets to support wider clinical performance, outcomes and efficiency. 4. Ensure that AHP digital systems are integrated and interoperable with