Smarter decision-making for your population

NHS England has identified Population Health Management (PHM) as a core strategic aim for Integrated Care Systems, but what does this look like in practice? With complex systems, finite resources and multiple organisations delivering care and interventions, how should decisions be made, and who should be making them? 

Head of Systems & Solutions Development at NHS England Jason Pickles joins Chief Analyst David Sgorbati and Director Andi Orlowski, both of the Health Economics Unit, at INSIGHT 2022 to explore how you can improve your decision making on the critical question of sharing resources to benefit your population.  

Andi said: “Population Health Management has moved from buzzword to a part of everyday planning for ICSs and PCNs but what are the key elements that can help you better decide what is right for your population?  

“In this session I get to question experts in PHM about what they are doing today, and planning for tomorrow, to improve decision making.” 

Population Health Management (PHM) continues to be the hot topic on how to best make decisions regarding resourcing and planning interventions for your populations health. Be it segmentation, risk stratification or ‘impactibility’ having a better understanding of the approaches used and why, when is it appropriate to use them and where can you find support for you and your system is key for all involved.

In this session we heard from speakers talking about different approaches, where you can find resources to help you and hear real life case studies.

Panel members:

Jason Pickles​​​​​​​, Head of Systems & Solutions Development, NHS England

David Sgorbati, Chief Analyst at the Health Economics Unit

Abraham George, Consultant in Public Health Lead for Intelligence, Research & Development, Kent County Council

Victoria Cornelius, Senior Lead for Analytics Engagement, NHS England

Wes Baker, Director of Strategic Analytics, Economics and Population Health Management, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Facilitated by Andi Orlowski, Director of the Health Economics Unit

Wes Baker shared the video below around System P, which is a whole system approach to addressing multiagency, multisector challenges that negatively impact population health and will deliver transformational change in service provision through collaborative working. System P film

Jason Pickles shared the links to Population and Person Insight (PaPI dashboard) Note, if users don’t already have OKTA accounts they will need to register, but once registered this should be open to all.  The dashboard will be undergoing layers of iteration from December ’22 through to March ’23.

He also shared the Population and Person Insight Future NHS collaboration pages  Note, the site will be relaunched in December ’22.