This section provides more information and links to a range of reports. We use the insight to help continually improve services
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Leeds is working together to ensure that the opportunities arising from the advancements in digital technology are inclusive and accessible to all. To help encapsulate its work the city has collaborated on a Leeds Digital Strategy which is available here - Digital Strategy 2022-2025 | Inclusive Growth Leeds.
The Leeds Digital Strategy involved extensive engagement as part of its development and has been written from a ‘whole city and person’ perspective, encouraging organisations and individuals across the city to adopt it and participate in delivering it.
- Compassion in dying – new report published - The report amplifies the voices of 1,700 people, who told us that digital systems are central, not an add-on, to good end of life care. The report found that:
-People experienced considerable anxiety about their wishes and health information not being known or acted upon when it mattered.---People want to be more involved in viewing and editing their end-of-life records.People had bad experiences of end-of-life care when their wishes and health information were not known or acted upon by healthcare professionals.
-People had bad experiences of end-of-life care when their wishes and health information were not known or acted upon by healthcare professionals.
-People had good experiences of end-of-life care when their wishes and health information were known about and respected.
-Recording their wishes was not always enough – many people needed ‘advocates’ to ensure their health information was not known about and their wishes acted upon.
Compassion in Dying are sharing the experiences within the report to help improve practice and calling on commissioners, leaders in healthcare, clinicians and health and care staff to listen to what people said, to understand how vitally important it is that we get electronic end-of-life records right and deliver systems in a way that meets people’s needs.
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Understanding Care Homes Digital Barriers, Aspirations and Enablers Research - NHS England have published a summary report and extended research report ‘Understanding Care Homes Digital Barriers Aspirations and Enablers’ co-produced by their NE&Y Better Security, Better Care team in partnership with the North East, North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network.
Care homes have demonstrated a clear appetite and perceived need for digital integration between acute settings and care homes, especially in relation to access to hospital discharge information. Moreover, the research findings are potentially significant for the implementation of remote monitoring solutions. -
The West Yorkshire Annual Digital Report 2021-2022 - Digital technologies have dramatically changed daily lives for many of us, from the way we live, work, pay our bills, track our fitness, contact the council; to enabling us to work from our homes. Technology’s impact on healthcare is significant and it presents a number of opportunities for our population, the people who user our services and our workforce.
Data and digital technologies have played a vital role in helping the NHS and care services respond to the pandemic. This report showcases the collaborative work that has progressed across West Yorkshire in 2021-22 to support the continuation of services to benefit from digital technologies. - Digital inclusion tools for Integrated Care Systems
- Knowledge into Action Briefing - Inclusive Digital Transformation: what you need to know
- Digital Health Inequity - an animation exploring the wider determinants of health, the impact of COVID-19 on digital transformation in health and care and the digital divide
- Mapping Digital Inclusion - a mapping tool to help integrated care systems to understand digital exclusion in their area and where to focus intervention activity
- Knowledge into Action Briefing - Inclusive Digital Transformation in Mental Health: what you need to know
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The supporting grassroots action for digital access report details the findings from a study carried out by The Restart Project and Digital Access West Yorkshire. The focus is on the help groups need to get started collecting and refurbishing computers for reuse in the community. Nominet commissioned the study
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Introduced in response to Covid, NHSE now seek to increase the use of virtual wards so that more patients can be monitored and cared for in their own home with the help of remote treatment options and supported by technology. As part of its Power Hour series, the Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM), invited a panel of experts to discuss the possibilities. Their insights and experiences are summarised in a feedback report. You can also catch up with a recording of the Power Hour session to find out more.
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Informed by case studies and a survey of leaders from within community providers, the digital transformation in community health services report explores the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation within the community sector. It also makes recommendations for how national NHS bodies and providers can work together to overcome barriers and achieve the full potential of digital innovation
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Digitising Leeds: risks and opportunities for reducing health inequalities in Leeds - the aim of this paper by Healthwatch Leeds is to highlight people’s experiences of the move to digitised health and care services during Covid-19 and pre-Covid-19, with a particular focus on hearing the experiences of people with the greatest health inequalities
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Putting data, digital and tech at the heart of transforming the NHS - the goal of this independent review is to help make sure the NHS can lead the transformation of the wider healthcare system, supporting integrated care systems (ICSs) to deliver better citizen health
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We've been working with mHabitat to understand the needs of patients when considering remote consultation platforms. At separate primary care and secondary group sessions we looked at what the system is like now, what barriers there are to using virtual appointments/consultations and how we could make things better. We are using the feedback to feed into the requirement specifications for both video and online consultation in the future. To find out more see the:
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The acceleration of digital ways of working during the pandemic has seen digital inclusion rise up the agenda. Digital Boards has published a June 2021 briefing which defines digital inclusion and highlights practical tips
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On Digital Inequalities, a report published by the University of Manchester, provides thought leadership and expert analysis on how to address the inequalities we are seeing in the digital space
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Digital health innovations are often seen as 'ready-made' solutions to challenges facing health and care systems but despite their potential, implementing these technologies can be complex. See the Lessons for implementing digital innovations report for more information
- Patient stories of digital primary care in a pandemic sets out the findings of a recent patient voice project carried out in the East of England
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In partnership with ICE Creates, behavioural insight and design specialists, NHS Devon has delivered a qualitative insight study with some of the most vulnerable patients across Devon. The study highlights how online and remote consulting can bring unexpected benefits to those patients who are perceived to lack the skills and confidence to use digital options. To access the summary and request the full report see the ‘what needs to happen to support vulnerable patients to use online and remote consultation’ pages
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This year’s UK Consumer Digital Index report focused on the significant impact the pandemic has had on digital behaviours and financial priorities. Yorkshire and Humber showed some of the greatest development in digital engagement at 96%, a 6% increase compared to 2020, putting the region only 1% behind the national leader and 1% over the national average. However, 2.6 million people are still offline in the UK
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The King's Fund published an independent report shaping the future of digital tecnologies in April 2021. The review looks at how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones and wearable devices are being used within care settings
- The GP Online Consultation report, published in April 2021, summarises engagement and audience insight activities carried out over the previous year and before the lockdown period
- Digital Enterprise's Top 100 Special Report, published in March 2021, is aimed at business leaders in the region that are thinking about adopting digital technology to drive their business forward. Providing plenty of resources and inspiration, the report highlights the stories of some of the business leaders featured in the index’s ‘ten of the best’ and also features an interview with Muz Mumtaz, Head of the Digital Enterprise programme. Visit https:/
/ for more informationwww. de100.co.uk/ - The explaining data flow in the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record report describes research with the public to explore acceptability and to co-design explanations of how data flows in the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record (YHCR) and Population Health Management (PHM) platform
- The digital inclusion in mental health guide, developed by the Mental Health Network and Association of Mental Health Providers, allows service leads and organisation boards to evaluate where they are now and what they need to do next to increase digital inclusivity.The use of remote or digital mental health services has been accelerated during COVID-19 and while this has highlighted many benefits, it has also revealed factors that contribute to individuals being excluded from accessing digital services.The guide provides practical advice, ideas and case studies and is informed by providers and people with lived experience from across the sector
- The significant disparities in telemedicine use study - led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and published in JAMA Network Open, uncovered significant inequities, particularly by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, and when someone needed to use a language other than English
- We published the first Annual Report from the Improving Population Health Programme providing a digest of the year’s work, case studies and a look ahead to what’s planned for the future
- Digitalising Leeds: risks and opportunities to reduce health inequalities report - highlights people’s experiences in Leeds of the move to digitalised health and care services during Covid-19 and pre-Covid 19. The report focuses on the experiences on people with the greatest health inequalities. You can also see the digital tools help more people to access health and care article under our news section
- Your Healthwatch Leeds published their latest report on digital inclusion which this time focuses on the experiences of people with the greatest health inequalities. The report provides a snapshot of how people are feeling about phone and digital services right now. Community voices are an important part of decision making and we will use the insight to inform the work we are progressing collectively around digital inclusion. This includes running a series of co-design workshops early next year to prioritise activities to improve access to technology and the internet, whatever someone’s circumstances
- Joined up Yorkshire and Humber report - summarises the insight research commissioned to inform the Yorkshire and Humber Care Record. It explores the beliefs that people have about how health and care records could and should be used and the reassurances we need to know that individual data is safe