What is the challenge your project is going to address and how does it connect to the theme?

This project aims to use digital data, dashboards, and platforms to improve patient care, responding to the “digital and improvement communities” theme.

Health care organisations collect a wealth of data, but there is often a disconnect between the data and those who both report it and could benefit from it: data becomes compartmentalised, passed up a chain, utilised for system-wide analyses, but is often overlooked (or even inaccessible) for evaluating service trends and enabling service-wide interventions for improving care delivery.

The Bournemouth University – University Hospitals Dorset Partnership Programme seeks to co-develop a modular, adaptable, and practical professional development program for service leaders and care-workers to gain the ability to collect, analyse, and use data to design implementable innovations for service-level challenges. Developing progressive cycles of data collection, analysis and interventions can prioritise improvements for care delivery that are underpinned by both data insights and patient-centred approaches.

What does your project aim to achieve?

Our project aim is to co-develop an interdisciplinary, professional development programme on understanding and working with patient and organisational data.

Objectives:

(1) Co-develop a training method  for working with service-level healthcare data independent from any specific unit/system/dashboard.

(2)   Co-create modular learning units that can be offered either singly, or as part of the overall programme, to better meet the needs of individual learners on:

(2a) Understanding Data: developing key data literacies, understanding techniques of data gathering, identifying patterns and trends in data with a patient-centred approaches to using data for quality improvements.

(2b) Working with Data: using digital tools for data analysis, interrogating data for targeted interventions and keeping patients at the forefront.

(2c) Sharing Data-driven Stories: developing effective communication to get buy-in for best practice and that  best communicate data insight.

(2d) Designing Data-driven Interventions: enacting practical innovations, evaluating data-driven interventions for sustainable and scale-able quality and outcome improvements.

How will the project be delivered?

The programme will be co-designed by experts in data literacy, data analytics, data communications, and intervention design from Bournemouth University, and data specialists, clinical and non-clinical leaders and their teams  from UHD to enable that it meets the practical needs and situations of learners and offers a robust pedagogical approach. The co-creation process will involve relevant people from an ongoing partnership network between University Hospitals Dorset  and the Science, Health and Data Communication Research Centre at Bournemouth University.

To meet objective one UHD and BU will engage in a  co-design process to determine programme aspects: method of delivery, learning outcomes, assessments and teaching approaches.

To meet objective two UHD and BU will co-design and test run a series of modules as outlined above (2a-2d).

Impact evaluation is part of our project and we can ensure value for money and that risks are managed within the project

How is your project going to share learning?

This project will generate valuable learning for Q members and learners in healthcare systems across the UK and Ireland through the dissemination of four key deliverables:

(1)   Final report: We will share a digital and limited print run version of our final report that captures the design iteration of the programme, as well results from the evaluation in order to inform digital and data training development across the health sector.

(2)   Interactive digital toolkit for data literacy: We will create and share an online toolkit that contains learning resources, introductory key skills training videos, and lesson plans for data literacy-building activities.

(3)   Pre-tested data literacy training programme: An updated version of our co-created training programme will be available for enrolment.

(4)   Best Practice Case Studies: We will disseminate case study write-ups  via communication networks and newsletters to reach further professional groups, such as Nursing Times, AHP, Frontline and other appropriate outlets.