Challenge
There's an urgent need to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and attendances.
There are over 5 million patients on NHS treatment waiting lists, with 400,000 waiting for over a year.
NHS England estimates 24% of unplanned hospital admissions and 40% of unplanned hospital attendances could be avoided.
Routine data is not usually linked across services making research less effective. This delays interventions and reduces their impact as it doesn’t fully reflect the patient journey or wider system. This data needs to be linked and accessed in a secure and scalable way.
Project overview
This project will facilitate broad data access through multiple SDEs to explore whether enhancing existing tools and platforms, by bringing together data from across the patient journey (such as ambulance services, NHS 111), could help improve the identification of people needing preventative care and reduce unplanned hospitalisations.
Benefits
Reduced mortality.
Reduction in unplanned urgent care attendance.
Increased ability to forecast unplanned Urgent and Emergency Care demand.
Improvement in physical and mental health of patients.
Released bed capacity and staff time.
Reduction in health inequalities.
Reduced costs.
Partners: Yorkshire & Humber Sub National SDE | London Sub National SDE | University of Sheffield | London Ambulance Service | Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber | Health Navigator