Issue - meetings

To receive a presentation from Jason Young and Andrew Fenton.

The Board received a presentation from Jason Young, Information Manager, BaNES CCG regarding the background and rationale behind the CCG draft digital IT roadmap.

The following issues were covered in the presentation:

·  Why a Local Digital Roadmap (LDR) is required.

·  Main organisations involved

·  Scope of the LDR

·  Aspects of digital transformation

·  LDR capabilities in relation to “Paper free at point of care” – this will come into effect in 2018

·  How the initial LDR is being produced

·  Timetable for the LDR

·  BaNES LDR footprint

·  How digital transformation enables STP goals

·  Vision for Digital Transformation

·  Universal capabilities and issues

·  Digital maturity self-assessment current baseline – the RUH was better than the national average for digital maturity

·  Paper free at point of care trajectories, deployment and issues

·  Patient/client information sharing and interoperability

·  Information sharing approach

·  Gaps identified

·  Priorities to be delivered in 2016/17

·  Priorities to be delivered beyond March 2017

·  Governance of LDR delivery

A full copy of the presentation is attached as an appendix to these minutes.

It was noted that the NHS is still a very paper based organisation and that there were opportunities to provide services such as booking appointments through use of technology.  There were also opportunities to work with other organisations, for example sharing networks between health and social care in BaNES and Wiltshire.

The Chair noted that more and more people now expect digital services and that these developments could be helpful to patients.

In response to a query from Alex Francis from Healthwatch, Jason Young explained that some patients are confused regarding shared data.  Often they assumed that data was shared between different NHS organisations.  Patients must also be clear about how their data is used.

Councillor Vic Pritchard stressed the importance of not excluding people who do not have access to the relevant technology and to ensure that alternative ways of accessing services remain for those who do not wish to use a digital service.

It was RESOLVED to note the presentation.