Out of Adversity Comes Strength and Wisdom June 2012

Recommendations;
An Eight Point Plan
9.1 This approach is signed up to by both the Chief
Information Officer and the Chief Clinical Officer (NW)
as a transitional plan to take forward as a shared
leadership model - as the SHAs prepares for handover
it is essential for this model to be considered by the
NHS CB, DHID and the CCG's.
9.4 A serious effort to involve patients through service user
groups and the Patient Experience Leads needs to be
made. Representatives should attend the Informatics
network described above and in time become
involved in the governance process and not just be
“attendees”.
9.2 Each organisation should be encouraged to appoint
a CCIO and an informal network of these individuals
should be set up (equivalent to the Clinical Health
Informatics Leads or CHIL that the HICAT helped
establish) to share best practice and ideas- this
network should comprise of a manager and a CCIO
from each organisation in a cluster or indeed across
the North West.
The network should be a Health Informatics group to
facilitate decision making regarding QIPP and IT. The
network will promote the New Relationship/New Offer
to the patients and public and endeavour to help
deliver the aspirations of “The Power of Information” &
promote the QIPP ethos in doing so. This network
should be guided by the HICAT.
This structure must not work independently but rather
be supportive to, and engage with, other current
networks that exist including the Clinical Leaders
Network (CLN), CCG Chairs & Operational Leads,
Directors of Nursing, Medical Directors group, Cancer
Network groups, Stroke & Cardiac Network etc.
9.5 The Informatics Team and the HICAT will undertake
quarterly meetings to evaluate progress and consider
future requirements for the North, if acting in a
function as system clinicians facilitating informatics
assurance/governance roles.
9.6 The HICAT could produce quarterly light touch reports
for the CCG and PCT Clusters regarding KPI's to do
with clinical engagement from the system.
9.7 The HICAT and the CCIO network will engage with
organisations such as AQUA, The Centre for Health
and Wellbeing and the Leadership Academy to help
embed clinical leadership and engagement.
9.8 As this strategy becomes successful, NHS North could
recommend the model to the DH Informatics
Directorate and National Leadership Council for
reflection in other health communities and sectors,
particularly in light of the new strategy.
9.3 The HICAT should be facilitated by the CCG's, the
Department of Health and the NHS CB so that it can
influence important decisions to enable the “The
Power of Information” strategy to be realised.
17 NHS North West & The Health Informatics Clinical Advisory Team (HICAT)