1. Digitising hospital care and beyond
23 November 2016
Malcolm Senior, Director of Informatics

2. The Current Vision

3. Why Digitise? For Patients For Clinical Staff
For Healthcare Organisations
Safer Care
Information readily available
Up to date information about patients
Better and easier communications – not asked the same question many times
Information captured once and easily shared , less duplication, saves time
Fewer errors, fewer complaints
Fewer delays
Improved decision making
Less litigation
More informed about their care
Avoid harming patients
Improved reputation
Confidence in the system
Increased confidence through informed best practice
Happier and more motivated staff, less sickness
More control over their health and wellbeing
Easier access to evidence for revalidation
Less waste and unnecessary variation in the system = lower cost
Healthier lives
Happier at work
Sustainable provider
status

4. Background - Musgrove Park Hospital
Somerset’s largest hospital
Annual budget c£280m
4,000 staff
600 beds and 15 operating theatres
315,500 outpatient attendances
56,000 A&E attendances
41,000 emergency admissions
34,000 elective day cases
9,000 elective admissions
3,400 births

5. Our unique approach

7. Paperlight Outpatients - reduced printing

8. How? Inputs and Outputs Leadership 5YFV Ambitions STP Ambitions Blood
Technology
Process
People
Leadership
5YFV Ambitions
Blood
Sweat
and
Tears
“Appier” staff =
Blood
Sweat &
Smiles

9. Our clinical teams are engaged in developing solutions to keep them connected to their patients

11. Challenges

12. Competing priorities for available finances

13. Today’s pressures Vs tomorrow’s aspirations

14. Hospital care never stops and has a cast of thousands
Closed for Transformation

15. People and Change

16. Converting and embedding national strategy into everyday use
GP Systems developed in the UK by GPs for the NHS system
Acute EPR systems largely developed in the USA for their private health system

17. Risk of Digital exclusion in Somerset

18. Assuring patients’ that their data as well as their health is safe in our hands

19. Nothing is as certain as Death and Taxes
Beyond Digitisation
Nothing is as certain as Death and Taxes
………..Except…..
Benjamin Franklin

20. The use of big data to improve the health of the population
Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP

21. Thank you