Month: August 2020

Standards in action: Pharmacy information standard improving care 

NHS Digital is using our pharmacy standard to roll out digital notifications that will inform GPs when one of their patients receives an urgent supply of medicine from a community pharmacy. Sharing this information quickly and consistently means patient records are more up-to-date, and the people involved in their care are able to make better […]

Mental health project enters second stage

Community mental health plans are crucial for people living with severe mental health problems. If the information about their ongoing support can be shared digitally, it will mean that people are  able to engage more in their own care plans  and work with professionals to  improve both their physical and mental  wellbeing. To help facilitate […]

Successful teams have the functional skills to lead a task, benefit from diversity, and are led in a way that creates time and space for reflection; the ability to take stock periodically, of the task and of the way in which the team is engaged in delivering it. Your stakeholder analysis [HYPERLINK] should help you assemble the most appropriate team and identify how the team interacts and relates to other stakeholders like sponsors, services users, etc.

The variation in the size, both in terms of population served and numbers of constituent organisations, and of complexity, between Integrated Care Systems, precludes the possibility of any prescriptive guidance on the way in which this team is assembled.

Engeström’s expansive learning cycle of learning actions explains how there are 7 stages of learning actions;