Review of Health Informatics Services

Workshop with HI Professional Development Board18 January 2007 Richard Gibbs

Health Informatics review objectives to define and prioritise the requirement

for central support services to HI staff in the NHS and social services

to assess which bodies are best placed to supply them

Set within business objectives CSR DH targets Trust, PCT LA SS business plans Local HI teams

Defining HI staff?

MIC but restricted to “specialist staff”?

MIC plus “social care” ?

6 categories are diverse ICT

Information management

Knowledge management

HI senior managers

& directors of services

Clinical informatics

Health records

Concentrate on IT and IM?

Range of HI services:

workforce planning improve capacity and capability

recruitment, retention, pay & grading occupational standards professional accreditation and regulation,

entry qualifications CPD and training

specify, accredit, commission, deliver tools to support specific tasks

Accreditation

librarians and coders already have it needed for ICT and IM staff? accountants and economists value for public, employers and staff?

Arguments for:

raise status better pay employers recognise

value improve standards of

HI practice guarantees quality of

practice for employers

protects public and patients

HI staff won’t pay for it restricts movement in to

protect incumbents need generic, like CILIP,

not health specific employers won’t value it HI too diverse

(federal model?)

Arguments against:

Current services and service suppliers

The ICNHS CfH

UKCHIP

ASSIST

BCS

BCS HIF

RSS

ORS

NHS Institute

NHS Faculty for HI

NHS KSF

Professional Skills for Govt

Skills for Health

Skills for Care

SIFA

GSS Framework

GIT

GES

GORS

Academic bodies

supplying training

HINOS

Discussion