The British Society for Heart Failure Strategic Partnership of the 25in25 Initiative
NHSBN is pleased announce its partnership with The British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) along with PRIMIS and Strategic Intelligence Alliance in Healthcare.
The collaborative of expert partners is for the ‘discover and develop’ pilot phase of the 25in25 quality improvement implementation programme beginning early 2024. The national rollout will follow in 2025. The objective is to achieve the BSH led 25in25 ambition to reduce deaths due to heart failure by 25% in the next 25 years. This translates to over 10,000 lives saved annually.
Background
The BSH, the professional association for heart failure care in the UK, aims to increase knowledge and promote research about the diagnosis, causes, management, and consequences of heart failure amongst healthcare professionals. Their intention is to delay or prevent the onset of heart failure and improve care for patients with heart failure. To learn more, please visit: https://www.bsh.org.uk
Overview
With heart failure rates set to double by 2040, we must come together as communities to detect and treat heart failure much earlier. Hence, the aim of the pilot programme is to create a ‘dashboard’ from ‘discover and develop’ insights and data gathered from General Practice records across 4 domains;
risk analysis,
diagnosis,
guideline directed medical therapy and
quality of life measures such as mental health and wellbeing.
Partners
Announced as partners by the BSH at the inaugural meeting of selected pilot sites, NHS Benchmarking Network PRIMIS and the Strategic Intelligence Alliance in Healthcare will initially collaborate to develop the coding and tools necessary to collect the data. We will work alongside selected health systems to validate the search criteria and drive quality improvements that result in better and more equitable heart failure care. Additionally, the 25in25 programme will support improved outcomes in patients with long term conditions leading to heart failure, and to address health inequalities by tackling disparities of access, experience, and outcomes in under-served patient groups. An area that is so important to us here at the Network .
NHS Benchmarking Network (NHSBN) provides dashboards and reports for its members and delivers multiple national clinical audits, such as CVDPREVENT, and bespoke projects to support NHS planning and service improvement. NHSBN uses data tools and insight to share excellent practice through findings events throughout the year. NHSBN will be responsible for the national rollout of the dashboard to be developed from analysis of data gathered from the pilot communities.
Sarah Atkinson, Managing Director of NHSBN, commented: “NHSBN has the necessary infrastructure, expertise, and experience to deliver the national rollout of this important initiative. The data gathered at community level through this programme may also help us, in conjunction with PRIMIS, to inform and develop future indicators for audit use.”
PRIMIS, a specialist team of health informaticians within the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham, provide expert advice on the intelligent use of primary care data to the NHS, academics, and industry partners and their tools and training programmes support behavioural change in general practice, often involving the widespread scale and adoption of healthcare innovations.
The Strategic Intelligence Alliance in Healthcare (SIA4H), an experienced business intelligence team able to build complex models to help analyse available healthcare data, using a wide range of different datasets to gain insights and understanding.