Using logic models to assess digital health products

Using logic models to assess digital health products
NHS Digital 9 July 2019

• How digital delivery teams from NHS Digital and Public Health England used a logic model to assess whether the NHS website is fit for purpose.

Vive la révolution in population health management [blogpost]

Vive la révolution in population health management [blogpost]
Andi Orlowski of Imperial College Health Partners
Nuffield Trust 19 June 2019

• "Population health management is different from the approaches we have taken before in public health or within the NHS. Where public health has traditionally looked at promoting, protecting and prolonging healthy life through coordinated programmes (normally offered to the whole population), population health management focuses on key outcomes for identified groups. Often these groups share more specific common characteristics, not just a disease diagnosis."
• "it helps system leaders best manage resources for their populations and deliver value. It helps them to plan for, and proactively intervene in, long-term health risks and outcomes."

See also:
Population Health: Key Resources from Imperial College Health Partners
Reading: Handouts: Presentations: ICHP Blogs:

Myths Associated with the GDPR

Myths Associated with the GDPR [blog]
Naomi Korn Associates 23 May 2018

• The changes introduced by GDPR to UK data protection law are modest and many of the emails asking if you wish to continue to receive communications were unnecessary.
• "The facts about when you may process, i.e., obtain, record, manage, structure, store, amend or delete, or disseminate personal data ...law has hardly changed in this regard."
• The blog sets out the six reasons why you are allowed to process personal data. 

Consulting on young mental health

Consulting on young mental health
Digital Health blog 18 May 2018

• The team involved in the consultation on the future of children and young people’s mental health provision describe their work with the policy writers in producing versions which would be acceptable to the different audiences involved which ranged from nursery-age children to clinical commissioning groups. 
• Resources developed for the consultation included an quick read version of the policy, video and website. Documents available here. Video and website no longer available as the consultation is closed.

What has the STP or ICS ever done for me? [blog]

What has the STP or ICS ever done for me? [Blog by Chris Ham]
Kings Fund 17 May 2018

• Chris Ham describes the ambitions outlined in the plans prepared in 2016 which are being delivered by STPs and ICSs in neighbourhoods, places and systems.