1. Connected Health Cities Dr Séamus O’Neill, CEO Academic Health Science Network North East and North Cumbria

2. Connected Health Cities – Presentation Overview
The Academic Health Science Network NENC (AHSN)
Connected Health Cities – Concepts
Northern Powerhouse and Health North Programme
CHC Governance – Northern Health Science Alliance and NENC Steering Group
Year One – Objectives
Where we want to be
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3. The Academic Health Science Network
Regionally-based system-wide integrators - Improving the health and wealth of the country -
4 regions working together – North West, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire and Humber
Current links with all regions through proposal development; links will get stronger – share best practice and ensure common standards
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4. Connected Health Cities: Aspirations for 3 year pilot
Provide better information to support care provision and decision making
Provide better data, skills and collaboration for care, planning and research.
Develop civic partnerships: initially health, local authority and academic
Within NENC but also across all 4 regions
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5. Northern Powerhouse, Health North and the NHSA
CHCs are part of a £20M investment spanning the 4 northern AHSNs
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6. Governance: Northern Health Science Alliance
Body responsible for delivering CHC
Not exclusive – e.g. CCGS, local authorities, third sector, commissioning support will be involved
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7. Governance: North East and North Cumbria Steering Group
Seamus O’Neill (Chair) – CEO, AHSN NENC
Joe McDonald – Chairman CCIO Network, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Mark Walsh – AHSN NENC
Dr Mark Westwood – GP IT lead, NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group
Ali Wilson – Chief Officer, NHS Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees CCG
Gillian Gibson – Director of Public Health, Sunderland Local Authority
Graham King – Chief Information Officer, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS FT
Susy Cook – South Tees NHS FT
Tim Goodship – Clinical Academic, Newcastle University
Mike Jarman – IT Programmes, Applications and Development Manager, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Ed Ruck-Keene - Institute of Advanced Research Computing, Durham University
Dr Nick Booth – Newcastle University Business School
Dr Amanda Lamb – Programme Manager. Northern Health Science Alliance
Links to CCIO (state Joe McDonald), CIO, local authorities, CCGs, academic
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8. Connected Health Cities will:
£4M for the NENC
1. Enable collaborations within and across regions 2. Allow solutions to be trialled which are scalable 3. Development common standard/share best practice 4. Provide an influential body, in dealing with NHS England, suppliers etc.
Develop solutions; ref MIG in North Tyneside (Joe McDonald strong advocate) , integrated record development at S.Tyneside; analytical work in County Durham/D’ton, referral management in Cumbria
Use our regional network to look at best practice (e.g. MIG in North West)
Looking for other NENC developments
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9. Year 1 Objectives A NENC Regional Interoperability Forum
Provide strategic direction to the NENC Data Integration Programmes
Develop an open systems framework for data and document sharing
Owned by CCIOs, CIOs, Information Governance Leads
Implement a NENC Information Governance Framework
Over-arching agreement for data sharing
Health, local authority, universities initially
Support existing NENC initiatives to develop civic partnerships and CHC activity, particularly around business analytics
RIF – recognise need for strategic body; forum-of-forums, bringing together existing
IG – establishing local links, and also innovative work in North West using our cross-regional network
Civic partnerships – strong network building with NENC providers, local authorities universities, key forums (CCIO, CIO) – continue to develop (e.g. CCGs)
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10. Where we want to be The Great North Care Record
Open systems, data and document sharing
Excellence in analytics applied to questions that matter
Game-changing levels of citizen engagement and ownership
Know this is a massive challenge; not under-estimating
However strong platform; strong NENC network drawing on wide ranging expertise; Northern “clout” utilising best practice (e.g. Leeds Care Record, NW MIG and IG); resource - initial investment with further planned
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11. Approaches Trust and back the practitioners:
Owned by CCIOs, CIOs, Information Governance Leads
Be inclusive and leave your team shirt at the door
Learn from others:
Events on local best practice - Strata, RAIDR, Palantir, others
Site visits to national exemplars – Bristol, Leeds, Cumbria, Hampshire, others
Generate quick wins:
MIG in Newcastle Gateshead, South Tyneside Care Record, Durham and Darlington analytics with Durham, Cumbria/North West IG Toolkit
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