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Joining Ben on the Ockham sofa this week are Dr Shashi Khandavalli, Clinical Director for Chorley Central PCN and Harry Evans, Senior Programme Manager at NHS England and Improvement, who discuss all things Population Health Management; what it is, how it is key in meeting the health needs of a local population, the importance of working in partnership with local stakeholders and a story involving bins which underpins this key workstream.

Show Notes

What is Population Health Management (PHM)? (1:10)

Populations and individuals (1:45)

Understanding the health of local populations and identifying their needs (2:37)

The importance of using data (3:15)

Shashi and Harry tell us how they became involved with PHM (3:38)

#datasaveslives (4:29)

Establishing strong relationships with key partners (5:18)

A strategic approach (6:00)

How to get started? (6:20)

“Don’t wait for perfect to get in the way of good enough” (6:45)

Data sampling to target area of need and to enable strategic intervention (7:10)

Breaking down the barrier of skepticism and working partnership to identify positive outcomes or ‘the bin theory’ (8:09)

The role of social prescribers and link workers and the structural approach (10:15)

How are interventions made? (11:17)

Lessons learned (12:30)

10% data 90% culture (14:17)

Engaging local partners and building relationships (14:48)

The role of open meetings and who to involve (15:12)

PCN core skills (15:35)

Establishing, harnessing and understanding your vision (16:25)

“Activation day” (17:06)

What happens next? (17:31)

PHM programme rollout and support from NHS England & Improvement (17:45)

PHM platform access details (19:26)

Chorley PCN next steps (19:42)

Getting in touch (21:55)

Harry is contactable @harryaevans or at harry.evans2@nhs.net

Shashi is @kshashi79 or shashidhar.khandavalli@nhs.net

The NHSE/I PHM Academy is available here. It contains information and learning about population health management from the PHM development programme and other sources. Please email england.phmsupport@nhs.net to be signed up for access.

This blog that Shashi wrote is hot off the press..