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Plans unveiled to transform care in early years, dementia and frailty
Greater Manchester’s NHS and Councils are working together to develop and test new advanced technologies that will join up vital information across public services and empower people to live well, integrate care and save lives.
While there have been many technological advances across the city-region, public services operate a variety of different technical systems that are unable to share information, which impacts on the quality of care and services people receive.
Under the plans, a suite of new technologies will be developed to allow the safe and secure sharing of information between professionals, improve the accuracy of data and provide people with insights to take charge of their own health and wellbeing.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is contributing up to £6.8 million as part of the project, with a further £7.5 m coming from the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP), under NHS England’s national Local Health and Care Record (LHCR) transformation programme.
The technology will first be tested to improve care for people living dementia or who are frail by enabling critical information to be shared between patients, carers and professionals. Around 30,000 people are estimated to live with dementia in Greater Manchester, with around £270m spent on care and treatment each year. The new technology will support more robust integrated care planning, help people maintain their independence and detect changes in their condition to avoid hospital admission.
It will also be used to digitise the paper- based assessments used to review a child’s development up to the age of five. Parents and guardians will be able to complete and review the tests online, which will directly feed into the child’s health record and help identify children who need additional support. It will also free-up valuable clinical time for health visiting teams, equating to around £10 m per year in productivity once rolled out across the city-region.
Once developed and tested, the technology platform can then be adopted by other service areas to drive rapid improvements into the health
Extension to mobile theatre unit deployed in Dudley
Following the success of an initial contract, a UK medical technology company is set to continue to help an NHS hospital Trust deliver orthopaedic procedures during a refurbishment project. Vanguard Healthcare Solutions initially began working with the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust in March 2019, and was initially due to have one of its mobile laminar theatres on site at Russell’s Hall Hospital in Dudley for six months, while the Trust refurbished its current orthopaedic theatre facilities. The Trust covers a population of 450,000 people. All orthopaedic surgery such as hip and knee replacements, which would normally be performed in the hospital theatre undergoing renovation, was moved to the mobile theatre.
The current contract ended in September 2019, but such has been the success of the project, the unit will return in November 2019 and will stay on site until May 2020 to allow for additional refurbishment work to continue at the Trust.
Designed and built by Vanguard, the mobile theatre provides an anaesthetic room, operating theatre, two bed first- stage recovery area, staff changing room and utility areas. A specially-constructed corridor and ramps join the main body of the hospital to the unit. Vanguard laminar flow theatre facilities offer HEPA-filtered environmental air that conforms to Grade A EUGMP, with up to 600 air changes per hour passing over the patient, and 25 fresh air changes.
and wealth of Greater Manchester’s2.8 mcitizens. Jon Rouse, chief officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, commented: “Despite the digital revolution, public services have been left behind. All too often important information is held on hundreds of different systems which cannot be accessed from one place, so people end up having to repeat their story, care is not joined up, important information is missed and problems are not identified early, which in extreme cases could lead to harm.
“Each locality has already made good
progress on sharing information locally, but we now need to move beyond the basic ability to share information to maximising the opportunities brought by devolution and take a GM-wide approach to digitally transforming our public services. “This will allow us to provide more personalised, integrated care and treatment, supported by rich data and next generation technology. It will ensure we continue to be at the leading edge of health innovation, supporting a continued increase in jobs, growth and prosperity for all.”
Completing The Picture returns to Scotland
The educational medical devices symposium, Completing the Picture Scotland, will take place at the Doubletree Westerwood Spa and Golf Resort in Glasgow, on Tuesday 12 November 2019.
Sponsored by Hillrom, the event is held twice a year, with a symposium in Central England and another in Scotland. This year, delegates are being offered more opportunities for learning and networking, with more exhibitors and optional seminars to attend. Completing the Picture is free to attend. For more information, visit
www.completingthepicture.com
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