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10 Oct Update Episode

Welcome

Introductions

How we doing

Digital PC round up

Today looking at

A new document from CQC - Draft strategy for discussion

Announcement about flu delivery

Redmoor digital journey planner

Anticipated information from NHSe

Andy - So Gandhi - new flu announcement, I haven’t read - what is it about?

New Dept of health supply of flu vaccines for practices

HTN article about Draft CQC strategy document

https://www.thehtn.co.uk/2020/10/06/c...

CQC Published New Development strategy including digital health

https://cqc.citizenlab.co/uploads/f81... 

Describes

Changes accelerated by COVID19

Recognises regulator must transform

Themes

People 

Smart

Safe

Improve

References

New restrictions in providing care

New digital channels

New ways of working

New services

Offer regulation that is more relevant

Managing risks and uncertainty

“As the regulator of health and social care, we need to cement our place in that new world. As I’ve said previously, we’re not going to return to the way we worked previously — this will mean some big changes.”

Use of data and analytics and “AI” to support intelligence-based activity - to assist regulation and target inspections?

The greater importance of dashboards

Themes

People

Look at touch points on a patient journey - patient-centered shift?

We want our information to help people make decisions about care and to enable and empower them to drive change. 

Look at effectiveness systems of not just organisations but systems - PCNs, ICS, CCG?

Renewed focus on inequalities? Champion in everything we do… More pressure on systems to address these?

Smart

This means a more dynamic approach to regulating: moving away from relying on periodic inspections of services

and harnessing information from all sources to continually assess the quality and update ratings. Data will underpin all our activity, allowing us to understand risk and how people are experiencing care, 

target our resources for the greatest impact, and be more proactive than reactive.

Greater use of data and dashboards to target activity

Responsive rather than cyclical and planned

Looking at the value of services to the community and effect on the overall system? - Implications for services like GP at hand?

“Where services are innovative, we’ll look at how they benefit people as well as how they