Response on Innovation and Technology in the NHS
The SPPC has submitted a response to the Scottish Parliament Health & Sport Committee's call for views on Innovation and Technology in the NHS.
Within the response we highlight that there are key opportunities for the use of
technology in health and social care to:
a) Improve how technology supports
Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP)
b) Improve integration and communication
between the statutory, independent and voluntary sectors
c) Support more useful feedback on quality
of care and outcomes.
Our response suggests that ICT systems should be developed
which expand on the functions of the Key Information Summary (KIS) and have the
following characteristics:
- ACPs can be easily and frequently updated to
reflect the ongoing and evolving conversations which underpin good anticipatory
care planning.
- ACPs can be updated (in real time) by relevant
people from different settings which span primary care, secondary, tertiary, social
care and potentially education (to enable the appropriate support of children
and young people).
- ACPs are accessible to third sector providers
such as hospices and independent sector providers such as care homes.
- ACPs are accessible in different settings and by
different devices.
- People using services (and their informal carers
where appropriate permission has been granted) are able to access their own ACP.
- ACPs are sufficiently flexible in format to
support individual preference (both of the patient/client and professionals).
- The system is framed by information governance
rules which support secondary use of data for service improvement, planning and
research.
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