1. Building a Digital Ready Workforce
The Future of Informatics
@JamesFreed5 – Health Education England
@DiBullman – NHS – Clever Together

2. Building the future… 1. Networks 2. Sharing best practice (repository)
3. Individual attitudes and behaviours
4. Career frameworks and roles
5. Support professionalism at the local level
6. Creating tomorrow’s informaticians
7. Art of the possible, innovation

3. Progressing the Professionalism Workstream
Professionalism workstream strategy
Crowd sourcing consultation & how it was carried out
What we heard
How do we take this forward?
What are your views?

4. Professionalism workstream strategy
Agreed at BDRW Board Sept 2017
Research - requirements of health and care informatics professionals.
Supporting the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) – to create a recognised clinical informatics profession.
Supporting the Federation for Informatics Professionals (Fed-IP) - provide a central professional register.
Using leverage to increase professional body membership and professional registration.
Investigating, and potentially creating, networks – enable professionals to share best practice and learn from one another.

5. Objectives of crowd-sourcing exercise
Aimed at informatics specialists
Online platform
Participants could add ideas, comment and vote
Mandate
What did we want to get out of this?
Generate interest
Engaged as many people, networks and groups as possible
Insight
Pose challenging questions
Seed ideas
Facilitate discussion
Analyse responses
Generate ‘co-created’ vision and insights
Action
Workstream aims
Ongoing work
Other initiatives
Constraints

6. Generating interest Between 22 November and 13 December 2017
11,386 visited our online workshop
3,672 read intro
1,061
20,075 qualitative and quantatative data points
448
people joined our national online workshop

7. Spread of interest - vision heavy

8. Digitally willing and digitally able
Insights were categorised to produce a model for the strategy
Digital ready
Digitally willing
Individual attitudes
Organisational “drivers”
Digitally able
Skills
Technology

9. Insight – Individual attitudes
Keep a consistent focus on patients, always asking “how does this deliver quicker, better, safer care?”
Learn from success and failure
Act in a collaborative and open way, narrowing the gap between clinicians and non-clinicians, encouraging healthcare professionals to lead the implementation of projects
Ensure technical language is not a barrier to communication
Lead by example in innovation and the adoption of technology
Show empathy and understanding 
Digital ready
Digitally willing
Individual attitudes
Organisational “drivers”
Digitally able
Skills
Technology

10. Insight – Organisational Drivers
Build cultures in which every opinion is valued
Create forums to share knowledge and expertise with other informaticians
Help organisations understand the problems they are trying to solve, rather than purchase solutions and then find a problem to solve them with
Create CCIO networks within STP areas
Establish data science hubs to share expertise between organisations
Digital ready
Digitally willing
Individual attitudes
Organisational “drivers”
Digitally able
Skills
Technology

11. Organisational “drivers”
Insight - Skills
Establish clear professional standards for informaticians
Develop expertise in specific areas of informatics. E.g. statistical principles, medical terminology
When supporting others, informaticians should:
communicate simply, avoid jargon and use plain English when training
take every opportunity to teach about the importance of informatics
be embedded in organisations, at the point of need
Digital ready
Digitally willing
Individual attitudes
Organisational “drivers”
Digitally able
Skills
Technology

12. Organisational “drivers”
Insight - Technology
Give people the right technology, and the connectivity to use it
Before introducing new technologies, rely on the expertise of frontline staff to define the problems that need to be solved
When designing new systems, do not simply replicate paper-based processes
Keep a consistent focus on the quality of data and information, rather than the technologies used to collect and analyse it
Help to ensure technology is intuitive and invisible
Provide free wifi in all public areas
Work towards a common data dictionary for health and care
Digital ready
Digitally willing
Individual attitudes
Organisational “drivers”
Digitally able
Skills
Technology

13. Testing potential areas of work
Digital Health Leadership Summit (March 2018)
Develop networks to enable peer-support (21 votes)
Develop a repository of best practice (19 votes)
Support informaticians in post to develop in attitudes and behaviours (18 votes)
Support health and care organisations to recruit informatics staff with the right values and behaviours (13 votes)
Establish clear professions within informatics linked to capability profiles (10 votes)
Identify organisation-level support to enable professionalism (10 votes)
Ensure all informaticians are ‘up to scratch’ (8 votes)
Develop organisation-centric support (5 votes)
Develop support at the Integrated Care Service level (5 votes)

14. Other considerations
Fed-IP and FCI – need to do all we can to ensure they become self-sustaining bodies
Fed-IP, FCI and Digital Academy – will already address some of the issues raised
What else is already out there?
What’s best done nationally?
What can be done within the programme constraints e.g. programme ends 2021?
What else do we need to do to support capacity and capability?

15. Potential work areas to take forward
1. Networks
2. Sharing best practice (repository)
3. Individual attitudes and behaviours
4. Career frameworks and roles
5. Support professionalism at the local level
6. Creating tomorrow’s informaticians
7. Art of the possible, innovation

16. Thank you @JamesFreed5 – Health Education England
@DiBullman – NHS – Clever Together