The government's proposals for health and care integration9 Feb 2022 21:18
Joining up care for people, places and populations
Published 9 February 2022
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1053845/joining-up-care-for-people-places-and-populations.pdf
4.9 "Data Saves Lives", the draft data strategy for health and care, sets out a vision for data that moves seamlessly across health and care and has transparency at its core, giving people access to high quality, timely data to help them make choices about their care and improve outcomes. The data strategy sets out when and how information can be accessed and used by individuals, those caring for them and those planning services. A final version of the strategy will be published in early 2022.
4.10 Basic shared care records are now in place in all but one ICS. However, we must ensure that shared care records cover the entirety of a person's life and include both health and care, which they currently do not. For adult social care, we will ensure that within six months of providers having an operational digital social care record in place, they are able to connect to their local Shared Care Record, enabling staff to appropriately access and contribute to the record. We will also reinforce the use of the NHS number universally across social care to support this. Work is also underway to enable citizens to be able to access and contribute to their shared care records, building on successes to date.
4.11 Standards will be key to delivering integrated care. We will establish a suite of standards for adult social care, co-designed with the sector, to enable providers across the NHS and adult social care sector to share information. This will begin by developing a process to consolidate existing social care terminology standards by December 2022. We will develop a roadmap for standards development (April 2022), which will be underpinned by a new end to end process for development).
4.12 We will put in place systems to link and combine data to enable improved direct care and better analytics for population health management. This includes connecting data from every health and adult social care provider to provide a near real-time picture of NHS care, sharing consistent data at ICS, region and national levels to enable transformation of care pathways, and providing insight to all users through user led product design and supporting deployment functions.
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