The Information Sharing Challenge Fund

Keith Naylor (DHID Tech Office)

ISCF Update - Agenda• ISCF details

– Launch announcement recap– Who can apply and what can it be used for?– Award Styles– Themes and Styles Matrix– How much?– Payment Milestones– Critical dates– Making an Application

• Application Evaluation• Participation So Far• Questions

ISCF announcement and launch

• On 31st August 2012, we launched a new £2.2m fund for local NHS organisations to deliver digital services that improve patient care

Who?

• The Fund is open to NHS organisations in England, with the exception of strategic health authorities (SHAs) and primary care trusts (PCTs) due to limitations associated with the payment mechanisms.– SHAs and PCTs should approach an acute NHS trust/Foundation trust

within their area to be the lead organisation on any applications they wish to make.

• The fund is not directly open to suppliers and system developers. Our intent is to stimulate the NHS to purchase standards based products. Suppliers should partner with local NHS organisations to deliver these products

What?• Because timescales are tight (completion by 31st

March2013) we have asked for a limited number of largely pre-existing ITK themes:– Clinical Correspondence

• Just about any document type can be shared, PDF, DOC, XML

• Plain text and coded information– Urgent Care Clinical Dashboards– Maternity Digital Capture– Admission, Discharge and Transfer (HL7 v2 ADT)– Telehealth Personal Health Monitoring Report– Health and Social Care Integration

ISCF Award Styles• Adoption

– Designed to help suppliers develop their application around an ITK ‘theme’ and gain accreditation

– And to deploy at an initial site• Deployment

– Designed to allow additional sites to deploy an accredited application

• Development– Designed to allow the development of new ‘themes’– Or to prove the stability of a new candidate ‘theme’

specification (first of type accreditation and deployment)

ISCF Awards and Themes MatrixDevelopment Award Adoption Award Deployment Award

Clinical Correspondence(New content e.g. Mental health discharge coded content specification development in association with RCPsych)

Clinical Correspondence(ITK2 Generic Clinical Correspondence)

Clinical Correspondence(ITK2 Generic Clinical Correspondence)

Maternity Digital Capture(Theme specification development)

Not offered Not offered

Telehealth Personal health Monitoring Report(First supplier application accreditation required)

Telehealth Personal health Monitoring Report(Only after first supplier accreditation)

Telehealth Personal health Monitoring Report(Only after first supplier accreditation)

Health and Social Care(First supplier application accreditation required)

Health and Social Care(Only after first supplier accreditation)

Health and Social Care(Only after first supplier accreditation)

Not offered Clinical Dashboards Clinical Dashboards

Not offered Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT

Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT

Not offered Not offered ITK 1.1 Uplift(Only available for sites with existing ITK 1.1 deployments)

How much?

• The value of individual awards is likely to range between £25,000 and £75,000 up to a maximum of £99,000. The expectation is that the majority of the awards will be below £50,000.

• The final award value established on a case-by-case basis through a review of each project application.

ISCF Awards Milestone MatrixDevelopment Award Adoption Award Deployment Award

Create New ‘Theme’ Specification

** Not required where specification is developed by ITK team

Not applicable Not applicable

Grant Intellectual Property for Specification

** Not required where specification is developed by ITK team

Not applicable Not applicable

1st Supplier Application Accreditation

** Required to prove stability of candidate specification prior to release for wider adoption

Not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable Accreditation of Supplier Application

Not applicable

Deployment on Site Deployment on Site Deployment on Site

Case Study Case Study Case Study

Critical Dates

Making an Application

Application and evaluation process

• Applications for the scheme is via a self assessment form– Looks at the impact on patient care, value for

money, capacity and capability of your organisation and partners to deliver the project

– Each question may be accompanied by supportive evidence justifying your self assessment score

• Applications will be reviewed by an independent panel of NHS Clinicians and Trust ICT Directors

ISCF Webinar Participation

NHS 107Supplier 29Academic 5Charity 2Central Government 1Local Government 3Media 1Other 4Total 152

Contact Details

• Download the ISCF launch pack from (DH web URL)– Application Form– Prospectus– Award Agreement

• More information, FAQ and help videos – http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/itk

• Help and general queries– toolkit.enquiries@nhs.net

ISCF Closing Date

Two and a half weeks to

go

Questions