National Information Board, 13 November 2014
- This report considers the progress made by the health and care system [to exploit the potential of using data and technology], as well as what can be learnt from other industries and the wider economy.
- It sets out a series of proposals that will deliver radical transformation in the following areas:
- ‘enable me to make the right health and care choices’
- ‘give care professionals and carers access to all the data, information and knowledge they need’
- ‘make the quality of care transparent’
- ‘build and sustain public trust’
- ‘bring forward life-saving treatments and support innovation and growth’
- ‘support care professionals to make the best use of data and technology’
- ‘assure best value for taxpayers’
- The report includes a range of case studies for each area and a page outlining the timeline of framework milestones.
- Key milestones include:
- All citizens will have online access to their GP records (from March 2015)
- Proposals on the regulation, accreditation and kitemarking of technology and data-enabled services, including apps (March 2015)
- NIB will publish a roadmap for alignment of existing national programmes with the outcomes of this framework (March 2015)
- Proposals for linking 111 with NHS Choices (Septmber 2015)
- NIB will agree a core ‘secondary uses’ dataset that all NHS-funded providers will have to make available. (by April 2016)
- HEE will introduce a new knowledge and skills framework for all levels of the health, care and social care workforce (by April 2016) and by April 2017 a core curriculum and associated knowledge frameworks will contain the relevant knowledge, skills and characteristics to enable the workforce to embrace information and technology.
- Clinicians in primary care, urgent and emergency care and other key transitions of care contexts will be operating without the use of paper records. (by 2018)
- All individuals will be able to record their own comments and preferences on their care record (from March 2018)
