Informing Healthier Choices Information & Intelligence for Healthy Populations Nick Payne

1. Informing Healthier Choices Information & Intelligence for Healthy Populations Nick Payne

2. The approach • Central policy and funding from Choosing Health • A synthesis of good ideas, experience and knowledge from the field. • Continuing development of implementation plans in a changing - and disrupted! -landscape

3. Informing Healthier Choices – consultation draft March 2006 How did we do?

4. Common criticisms • Lack of detail, uncertain funding • Too broad and aspirational • Local perspective not sufficiently recognised • Too much emphasis on IT systems • Areas omitted – child health, dental, disease registers • Not enough on health protection • Not enough on primary data collection and quality

5. Response • Publish responses • Redraft the strategy – clear vision, greater emphasis on workforce and data, specific proposals not aspirations • Launch redrafted strategy – November 2006 • Get on with the work - Steering Group, resources, Implementation Plans • Continued consultation

6. Progress • Secured budgets • Health Profiles - LA and National • National Library for Public Health • Workforce skills regional workshops • Childhood height and weight data collection • Use of GP data (QRes and IMS) for ethnicity , risk factor, CVD risk score, analysis • Disease prevalence modelling (HT and CHD) • Feeding into the Commissioning Framework • Public health desktop concept

8. In the pipeline • Workforce training and support • New data collection opportunities including mental health, sexual health, drug misuse • Disease registers – Work with Information Centre • Data sharing guidance • Harmonising regional information functions • Work with Connecting for Health and Information Centre

9. Informing Healthier Choices: the Four-Box approach • Workforce training and support – Katie Enock • Stronger organisations – John Newton • Development of a health information and intelligence portal and supporting information systems – Daragh Fahey • Improved data and information provision – Nick Payne and Mike Soljak

10. Improved Data and Information Provision • Health Profiles • Childhood Height and Weight • Dental Data • Sexual Health Data • Alcohol and Substance Misuse Data • Social Marketing Data • Ethnicity Data • Use of health surveys

11. The future need? • Better specification of information requirements • Better match of analytical approaches to questions / problems and associated interventions • Provision of bespoke information and knowledge services and tools to users • Removal of barriers to use of information and knowledge

12. What happens next? • Roll-out of existing projects with advisory groups • Collaborative specification of new project and associated deliverables • Development of viable implementation plans • Annual review and continued consultation • Policy work at national, regional and local work

13. What does all this mean locally? PHOs APHO • Thoughts and ideas SHAs County Councils Improved Information to Improve Health PCTs Universities District Councils

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15. Result of consultation • 108 detailed responses • Overall supportive, constructive even enthusiastic • Welcomed an emphasis on content not process • Many specific criticisms

16. Information and Intelligence and Health Reform • SHAs should lead and performance manage development of information and intelligence capacity in their area • PCTs and LAs should be information-driven and knowledge-led commissioners