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(b) Informatics Strategy (Appendix H)PG presented the report describing how the Trust’s InformaticsStrategy was clinically driven and the Trust’s vision. He noted thatthe National Information Strategy published in 2012 recognisedthe paperless hospital for first time. He highlighted the objectivesand drivers of the strategy, including:• the aim for all patient information to be collectedelectronically to allow access for multiple users at any time;• maximising safety and clinical quality;• improving efficiency;• supporting clinical decision-making;• improving digital channels for communicating and deliveringcare to patients;• assisting in the delivery of recommendations in the FrancisReport relating to the electronic patient record (EPR) andelectronic escalation; and• improving the way various organisations involved in apatient’s health and social care worked together, giving theexample the EPR being available to ambulance staff andthe electrocardiogram from the ambulance being availableto the teams in the Hospital.He explained that there were 27 projects and six workstreamswhich included those elements that provided the foundation for thenew tools and the new tools themselves. He concluded that thefunding for the strategy had been approved in principle by theFinance Committee and that this would be reviewed at leastannually and it had also been approved by the Board of Directorsat Poole Hospital on 25 April.In response to a question from SP about the level of resiliencebuilt into the plan, PG replied that innovations were tracked verycarefully and the Trust could look at other countries who werefurther ahead that the UK from an Informatics perspective to gaingreater insight.BF and TS questioned the possible impact of any financialdifficulties at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on the fundingand delivery of the strategy. PG responded that the delivery of thestrategy was dependent on the capital but that projects could bephased differently if this was an issue and also that someelements of the strategy were dependent on both Trusts workingtogether at same time, giving the example of the scanning ofpaper records.PS noted that the strategy was impressive and demonstrated howInformatics could help improve some of the risks arounddocumentation which the Trust had identified previously andreferred to eNEWS. She asked whether PG had confidence thatBOD/Part 1MINS 10.05.13 PAGE 13 OF 16