NHS Digital

contact "HAJ-NAJAFI, Arran (NHS DIGITAL)" <a.haj-najafi@nhs.net>

Three suggestions for 2019:

Models deployment

NHS Digital use routinely collected data to build models to support NHS. Some of these are predictive models identifying high risk patients, the models themselves do not contain any sensitive or identifiable information. We invite you to explore/build tools to support the implementation and deployment enabling NHS Digital to share these models with health bodies so they can run these models at their end with minimum development work required.

PoC - Live A&E attendance app for public

Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS) contains hospital code, hospital postcode, Accident and Emergency attendance amongst other variables. Create an app that is updated in real time showing attendance at any Accident and Emergency site to enable patients to make informed choice on which A&E site to visit when required.

Enabling Independent Living for an ageing population.

When the NHS was founded in 1948, 48 per cent of the population died before the age of 65; that figure has now fallen to 14 per cent.[1] Life expectancy at 65 is now 21 years for women and 19 years for men[2] and the number of people over 85 has doubled in the past three decades.[3] By 2030, one in five people in England will be over 65.[4] This success story for society and for modern medicine has utterly transformed our health and care needs. Many people stay healthy, happy and independent well into old age, and there is mounting evidence that tomorrow’s older people will be more active and independent than today’s.[5]

The right supply of housing in terms of location, affordability, size, tenure and facilities is a crucial factor in enabling people to remain in their own homes as they age.[6] It is essential that new housing stock reflects the needs of the local ageing population, with sufficient extra care, sheltered and age-friendly housing available[7]. Existing housing stock can also be adapted with aids and technology to assist older people with daily living and maximise their independence and safety. Adaptations and care packages can aid older people’s recovery after a hospital stay and can help them to remain in their own homes at the end of life.[8] Providing adaptations to support an older person to remain at home for just one year can save £28,000 on long term care costs.[9]

We invite you to build IoT tools to support Independentof non-users of the internet (Centre for Ageing Better).