The Department of Health and Social Care has published its tech vision for health and social care. This is the first of three visions which are being published.
This document proposes a modern technology architecture and a set of guiding principles that will together be the foundation for a new generation of digital services designed to meet the needs of all our users – for the workforce...
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The November issue of the Health & Care Knowledge Update form ONS is now available.
The latest edition has links to new releases of data including child obesity statistics from the National Child Measurement Programme, and the Personal Social Services Adult Social Care Survey.
To subscribe to the monthly update please contact ONS here.
Other things to note:
The UK Statistics...
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The content of Public Health England's Health Profiles are reviewed annually to ensure that the indicators included are relevant and present a comprehensive overview of health at a local level. PHE are currently running a survey to canvas views from users to help shape the 2018 Health Profile pdf.
The questions are focused on suggested changes to the indicators within the 2018...
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NHS Digital (previously HSCIC) provides national information, data and IT systems for health and care services. It is currently working on a project to make access to statistical publications and clinical indicators easier. If you have an interest in using health and care data and are interested in supporting this work by helping to test a prototype for the service, please contact User...
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The 2017 Health Profiles have been published by Public Health England
The Health Profiles provide a snapshot of health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using a range of charts and text. They pull together existing information in one place and contain data on a range of indicators for local populations.
Health Profiles are intended as ‘conversation starters’ to highlight local...
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Results from the 2016 Autism self-assessment framework (SAF) exercise, published by Public Health England
This report presents the findings from the fourth autism self-assessment exercise carried out by local authorities (LAs) between July and November 2016. It shows the LAs progress towards meeting the requirements of the Autism Act. The report is accompanied by personal stories from...
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NHS Digital have published this interactive web-based summary report to give users a high level summary of a selected local authority’s activity in 2015/16 across the range of adult social care collections, compared against both the LA’s peer group and England as a whole. The purpose is to bring adult social care information together into one location and in a more user-friendly...
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A new project has started in Summer 2016 to work with data standards experts, open data enthusiasts and local public service providers (including local authorities and their partners) to find a better way to identify and match local services to the needs of citizens and the places they serve. The programme is being led by the Local Government Association Research & Information Team with...
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The Office for National Statistics has an ongoing programme of improvements to its website design and contents. They have created a user-driven website, and need help in continuing this programme so are looking for people to help us with their research and usability testing. This could involve online surveys or tasks, 1-2-1 usability testing or focus groups and they...
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The latest issue of the Health Surveys Programme E-Bulletin is now available: E-Bulletin October 2016.pdf
NHS Digital's Health Surveys Service can commission and manage contracts to carry out surveys on aspects of health and social care. With the expertise and experience of running complex health surveys they can carry out surveys on behalf of other organisations, both local and national,...
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Nesta has launched a new report, Health as a Social Movement: The Power of People in Movements, produced as part of NHS England’s Health as a Social Movement Programme. It illuminates the value and role of health social movements and aims to foster debate, experiments and development of a practice around social movements in health.
A health social movement is a people-powered effort to...
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Article by Roger Taylor published by the Guardian Healthcare Network
Without data sharing we are either blind to the impact of social institutions or we give those who run them control over the public narrative of their benefits.
Care.data, the NHS plan to create a national dataset of patient information that could be shared with researchers, has officially been brought to a close. The...
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The Department of Health’s Transparency Team would like to invite you to a Workshop on Intelligent Transparency in Health and Social Care. This event will be held in two locations:
· London: Thursday 21st July, 14:00-15:30 at Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.
· ...
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This useful interactive map from the King's Fund brings together case studies from across England and the rest of world, highlighting some of the places that are experimenting with and implementing new technologies to achieve better health outcomes or more efficient care.
This map is not a comprehensive listing of all such projects – it is limited to a selection of case studies featured...
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