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Alleviate pressures from repetitive tasks such as reading through patient notes, collating historic patient information & making a decision

AI can help create a patient centric view that contextualises the patient journey through the system and his/her disease progression to present that back to a nurse with a data-driven recommendation on the best course of action for the patient - real-time AI CDS truly pushing insights in the hands of nurses and midwives to make informed decisions. AI won't replace clinical staff but can help augment decision making and make patient care more informed, proactive and move us to from a reactive to a more preventative model of healthcare provision.

It is essential that Health Inequalities are understood and evaluated before AI is considered/trained to ensure inequality is not increased

Safety should be first and always. Ensure that those considering AI understand the inequalities in their health care and those they serve. Before handing over data sets and commissioning or purchasing AI systems which do not fully consider Health Inequalities.

Multi Site Consensual Validation of Workflows to capitalize on the most effective practice from the bottom up

AI analysis of large scale datasets from existing EPRs correlating specific intervention with the most positive outcmoes

In Mental Health Nursing- it could support diagnosis and treatment

it could help mental health nurses with decision making. AI would be able to detect the similarities of that assessment to specific behaviours/ diagnosis. In some settings like Crisis it could support timely decision making.

Opportunity to Develop Nursing Practice

AI will facilitate the evaluation of nursing interventions to improve nursing practice models leading to improved outcomes for patients and better job satisfaction for frontline staff

Leader

Recognised Nurse Lead Multi disciplinary team to include IT staff to share knowledge across and upskill each other Education needs to be a blend of IT/Tech and Business Change and Programme Management

Peer supervision that is given adequate time on an weekly basis. That is the minimum not the exception. A team where knowledge is shared!

Peer support

A good specialist team in digital comprises of a mixture of clinical nurses /AHP and non clinical staff with a designated AHP/Nurse lead .

Nursing is a health science, which encompasses the care of the human being in its entirety and in all stages of life.

Nursing is a health science, which encompasses the care of the human being in its entirety and in all stages of life. Due to its conception, this type of science needs to specialize for several reasons: that professionals work in the same field, focusing their exercise, becoming experts in the field; that these specialists investigate, deepen and develop their fields, producing an evolution of nursing science from multiple sources.

Currently their is a shortage of nurse specialist due to Student Nurses or Newly Qualified not being aware of them

Coming from a student nurse perspective some avenues are not advertised for newly qualified nurse or those who have community experience as most require acute experience. Challenging this will enable more students to come into the profession and take on extensive training to be proficient to take on these roles.

Data entry at the point of care.

Nurses/AHP's and Midwives need access to the right device at the right time. Live Data entry at the bedside is essential to ensure there are no delays in care provision. Nursing documentation is largely written retrospectively due to the lack of appropriate devices to document. More analysis of documentation practices & available devices needs to take place alongside the reduction in duplication and documentation burden.

Good quality information is vital to inform care provision now and the future.

We currently use health data for research to better understand individual and group health conditions and apply results to better manage and find advanced treatment for all. There is a huge potential to make better use of the information we input on patient records. In order to do this, we must have optimised data collection tools, automated processes to systematically improve data quality and be easily accessible to key stakeholders. Accurate data is essential to improve care in the health and care system. The focus should be not on quantity but more on the quality of data recorded and how we use these information to influence practice and drive better patient outcomes. We must turn data output into actionable information to be used right there and then.

IT Systems needed that talk across Local Systems/regions to share data efficiently for patient safety

Data entry is far too repetitive

More mobile technology in clinical practice

More employer provided mobile devices for nurses and midwives to use in hospitals so they don't have to queue up to use the ONE computer in ward areas and can record patient data on the go, speeding up their work and patient care

The use of ICTs by Nursing professionals could be the key to improving the quality of care.

The use of ICTs by Nursing professionals could be the key to improving the quality of care, as well as in training and permanent education, in addition to facilitating intervention and rapprochement with the population, helping to reach increasingly higher health and improve communication.

Nurses must be digitally competent to support pts' use of new technologies to support their health or there will be healthcare inequalities.

Digital Competence = Health Equality

Succinct data capture when F2F

Making systems more "pick up and play" while capturing essential data would enable us to be more interactive with the woman while documenting her care

Multiple benefits currently conflict with areas for improvement

If used effectively, it can improve communication and streamline processes, whilst simultaneously identifying and monitoring areas for improvement. Constantly evolving digital landscape means that currently users are frustrated with inefficient systems and the burden this can place on care offered - interrupting person centred and place based care. Technology can widen access to services, removing physical boundaries to care and reducing inequalities, but only if used correctly and efficiently - still a work in progress in many areas and often a source of frustration, especially for those used to practice pre digital era. Once refined, digital processes have the potential to improve person centred care, freeing up time to have more contact 'with woman/person' and reducing the burden of documentation and communication

Evidence Based Nursing

It is the commitment to Evidence Based Nursing that drives the demand data, which requires the processing of the data into information that helps the frontline deliver care, and the Board to assure itself that care is compliant and delivering its strategic goals. It is the data processing and communication of the information that requires technology. We should not buy technology because it is fashionable.

Time spent inputting clinical data into patient records feels to be increasing, reducing face to face contact.

Digital Champions ( not keen on word champion)

We are establishing a group of self selected digital champions across our organisation who will be 'upskilled' and supported with 3 hours per month to support colleagues on their wards/departments with digital issues. we are also using them to test new products and be involved in the design

Shared Councils for developing Digital Workflows

Ward based staff normally have the best ideas for improving their digital workflows. A bottom up approach to digital improvements could empower staff to own and champion the digital record themselves

Should we be teaching transformation not digital?

Digital is the golden thread running though all we do now, not only in healthcare but most of our society, the challenges we face are often legacy issues that come from patients changing needs, societal changes, population health, evidence based knowledge, improvements, new technology and systems - as we innovate and build we transform. Would the fear of digital being out of a nurses remit be removed if we built into nurses education the skills to manage transformational change, with this include digital skills and literacy?

Ensure all training has an element of 'now how do you document' after dealing with any emergency

Ensure that digital competencies reflect both health and social care

There must be a greater drive to showcase the differences between data/technology usage within health and social care and how the latter is its own specialism. Ensuring placements are mandatory for all student nurses within each type of social care service (older/LD care home, older/LD homecare, supported living, mental health), will help show the importance of nursing within social care, but also expose students to the various types of data and tech processes used.

Portable devices have potential to increase patient involvement in their care as can be used at bedside. Needs good mobile UI development.

Portable devices and patient involvement

Ensuring all technologies deployed within health and social care have an open API and meet the criteria outlined on the Assured Suppliers' L

The Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) and Assured Supplier List have been an incredibly helpful tools in helping care providers acquire a digital tool, such as a digital care record, that is interoperable with other systems. Unfortunately, some organisations have invested in technologies that are not interoperable with systems supported by the NHS/ICSs. If technologies are not interoperable, they hinder the digital agenda and the integration of the health and social care sector. Furthermore, it is a loss of resources and investment by providers who have proceeded with a system that is not universally interoperable.

Shared access to care records

Ensuring clinicians and pregnant people have access to the right information at the right time regardless of where the person presents. In the North East and North Cumbria, a partnership between MVPs, digital midwives and clinical network expert group clinical leads, providers, vendors, the NENC LMNS and the Great North Care Record is underway.

Digital literacy and accessiblity for patients must be assessed & considered

Not all patients will have the digital skills to engage with telemedicine or virtual wards or live in areas where Internet access is poor or non-existent and cost is another factor that needs to be considered as technology is not a cheap solution and patients will need technical support to install, use and maintain some technologies at home.

Contingency for the digitally disengaged service users, there must be strategies in place to accommodate this issue