RE: News30 Mar 2023 12:05
Hi Seav1ew,
The presentation in February was more than just positive and i interpreted their answers as everything is more than on track. The only thing i don't understand is that the finance guy said the QVH tender should be out mid March and here we are ...still waiting. The good news is as far as i can see, is the award notice has not been published - so still all good imo.
as an aside.
If you read the Policy paper "A plan for digital health and social care"
Published 29 June 2022.
Feedbacks offering is very much what they visualise going forward over next 2-5 years, where everyone has their own health record that contains all their touches with health services, GP etc and ALSO in time should include all touches with social care professionals such as Social Services, nursing homes, home care agencies, charities that provide emotional, psychological support etc - so at anytime those that need to, can have access to a complete overview of an individuals health and social care interventions which have been accessed in past, and present day.
The thing that i never really thought about is that each patients digital "Life long" medical record will also need to incorporate, be accessed by as well as being open to recording events etc by "Social Care" as well as Health. They give examples where someone could be pregnant , and is losing weight and is treated by the appropriate doctor etc, but this doctor will also need to have access to any social care records that could give more information for diagnosis such as she is also a carer for her husband, she is in rehab, she has no financial support, she is seeking debt counselling, she is seeing volunteer councillor for depression , or maybe their are serious safeguarding concerns, recorded by social services around her other children etc.
Point being then, that this opens up a whole new raft of users and licenses from workers employed in the social care field such as social workers, care navigators, social prescribers, mental health support charities, home carer, nursing homes etc
Therefore , to create a service that is truly joined up between health an social care everything will be required to be recorded in the one place, and accessible on a need to know basis.
So this journey that is about to begin with our health status will over next five years build out into the community care settings also, according to the plan.
Ignore the preamble and read the summery, if interested.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-plan-for-digital-health-and-social-care/a-plan-for-digital-health-and-social-care