Agenda item

Report of the Department of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board received the report which informed Members that the NHS Five Year Forward View made a commitment that, by 2020, services would be paperless at the point of care and that patient and care records could be shared electronically between services. Social care organisations were encouraged but not required to do so.

In order to deliver this, local areas were required to develop Local Digital Roadmaps

(LDRs) setting out how this will be achieved.

An LDR was being developed for City and Hackney. A key delivery mechanism for the local plan was the Health and Social Care IT Enabler Project, which both the London Borough of Hackney and the City of London were part of. Given this and the fact that accessing any funding related to this will be dependent on signing up to the LDR, it was recommended that the City of London Corporation becomes a signatory to the plan.

In response to a query, Officers informed Members that the City of London Corporation used Framework I as its case management system for both adult and children’s social care. Framework I was a paperless system and allowed electronic documents such as hospital discharge notices to be downloaded and saved into the system.

The City Corporation was part of the Health and Social Care IT enabler

project - a CCG funded project to enable the sharing of health and social care

information to facilitate integrated care. The sharing of information would take place

through a Health Information Exchange (HIE) based at Homerton Hospital. It would

draw in information from a number of providers across health (e.g. GPs, hospitals, out of hours service and hospice services) and social care. Professionals would be able to view (but not save) this combined information based on their role and with the consent of the person concerned. This provided the mechanism to deliver the requirement that care records can be shared electronically.

Resolved – that Members of the Health and Wellbeing Board were asked to sign up to the City and Hackney LDR and to delegate formal signature to the Director of Community and Children’s Services in collaboration with the Chairman.