(L-R) Vin Diwakar, Sam Burrows, Rachel Energy, Malte Gerhold (Credit score: Tammy Lovell)
NHS England is working with NHS Frimley Built-in Care Board (ICB) to create a nationwide inhabitants well being administration instrument which can run on the federated knowledge platform (FDP).
Talking at NHS Confed Expo 2025 in Manchester on 11 June 2025, Vin Diwakar, nationwide director for transformation at NHSE, mentioned that “there’s a great deal of issues that you are able to do” with the FDP.
“We’re already seeing the advantages in particular person organisations, the place integrating techniques assist folks enhance theatre productiveness, velocity up discharge charges, coordinate ready lists higher, and so on.
“But additionally inside it we’ve acquired an answer market, which is the place corporations that aren’t the principle supplier of the platform can are available and work with the supplier to create new improvements within the platform.
“So one of many improvements that we’re engaged on with Sam [Burrows] and likewise in Cheshire, at Merseyside and in Cumbria, is making a inhabitants well being administration instrument, a strategic commissioning instrument that provides a single model of the remedy for the info that’s primarily based on a typical knowledge mannequin nationally.
“And secondly, it lets you then do the inhabitants segmentation, the stratification, determine the cohorts, the analytics, the case findings, the situation modelling.
“There’s an end-to-end product and all people’s doing the identical factor, in order that Frimley can examine the way it’s doing to different areas of the nation that have gotten related traits.”
He added that it was an innovation that “helps with well being inequalities in a nationwide platform”.
Sam Burrows, interim chief govt at NHS Frimley ICB, instructed Digital Well being Information that Diwakar is making an attempt to “construct one thing very related nationally within the FDP” to Frimley Well being and Care’s PHM platform which has been operating for round 4 years as a part of its Linked Care programme.
He added that the PHM resolution, powered by Graphnet Well being, takes knowledge from main care, secondary care, neighborhood care, psychological well being, native authority and social care, which is used to danger stratify the inhabitants.
“The chance strat rating goes again into the document, which then the clinicians can see and can use for planning and transformation for the companies we design,” Burrows defined.
“It’s a twin use – one use is for care supply so extra clinicians can see extra knowledge in regards to the inhabitants. The opposite use is the helicopter impact when in a selected neighbourhood or cohort of the inhabitants we’re seeing an rising downside, so what are we going to do about it?”
Burrows mentioned that NHS Frimley ICB is working in partnership with Diwakar to offer him with its learnings from the final decade and provides recommendation on what must be thought-about to create a nationwide PHM.
The venture follows issues raised by the Chief Information and Analytics Officers Community (CDAON) in regards to the FDP. In February 2025, Dr Marc Farr, chair of the CDAON, wrote an open letter to NHSE questioning whether or not the FDP is able to assembly “all of the bespoke necessities of a neighborhood system to help the well being of its residents via higher knowledge and intelligence”.
