techUK Industry Briefing with NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care System

As part of our work exploring Integrated Care Systems (ICS), techUK held an industry briefing with Dawn Greaves, Digital Programme Manager at West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.

West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership focuses on the health and care needs of local people with some key priorities. You can read about these in the Five Year Plan; 'Better health and wellbeing for everyone'. As an ICS, it encompasses a 2.4M population with a high variation in BAME groups between places. Dawn also noted that it includes 400k+ unpaid carers and 150k+ volunteers.

Dawn set out West Yorkshire’s 10 big ambitions:

Increasing healthy life years

Achieve a 10% reduction in the gap in life expectancy between people with mental health and learning disabilities, and the rest of the population by 2024

Address the health inequality gap for children living in households with the lowest incomes

Increase early diagnosis rates for cancer by 2024

Reduce suicide by 10%

Achieve 10% reduction in anti-microbrial resistance infections

Achieve a 50% reduction in stillbirths, neonatal deaths, brain injuries

Have a more diverse leadership

Become a global leader in the climate emergency

Strengthen local economic growth

To find out more about how West Yorkshire ICS plans to use digital, data, and technology to achieve these aims, watch the full recording here:

Groups

Digital Innovation in the Life Sciences Industry

techUK has launched a Life Sciences workstream, bringing together members actively working in drug discovery, digital therapeutics, data and AI, or those interested in moving into this space. As the Life Sciences sector looks to introduce digital health technologies into its portfolio, techUK are shaping the conversation.

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Interoperability Working Group

The Interoperability Working Group will work towards achieving the vision set out in NHS England’s 2022 draft standards and interoperability strategy. The group will aim to encourage the adoption of open standards and fluidity of data whilst recognising the commercial needs of members. It will also focus on demonstrating the value of interoperability to NHS senior management and improving the abilities of SMEs to implement interoperability standards.