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About the Population Health Management programme

This programme has been developed to support analysts and other health and care professionals working in population health to build their knowledge and skills within this area. Population health management (PHM) is central to the development of and is a new focus of analytical work for analysts working across these partnerships.

Population health management (PHM) is an approach that uses data to help health and care systems to improve population health and wellbeing. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) response to date has highlighted the pivotal role of PHM, with primary and secondary care providers needing to risk stratify and proactively support key population groups with personalised care models. PHM will become increasingly important as systems move to formally establish ICSs and will be pivotal to the way that the new systems will work together to improve the health of their populations.

The elearning modules that have been developed are:

Introduction to Population Health Management

An Introduction to Population Health Management – what it is, why it’s important and what you need to get started

Assessing Needs

This session describes the main stages in the process to assess needs of a population

A Practical Introduction to Population Segmentation

A practical step by step run through of the methods needed to undertake population segmentation as part of a population health management approach, with signposting to complementary resources, examples and user stories

Risk Stratification

A practical run through of the methods needed to undertake risk stratification as part of a population health management approach

Introduction to Population Health Surveillance

This session describes the concept of population health surveillance and how it can be used to identify and monitor threats to the health of the population, so that actions can be taken.

Data visualisation

This session describes the principles of good data visualisation for charts and maps in order to produce effective intelligence. 

Knowledge to action 

Knowledge to action is the process of landing your resources correctly to the required user at the appropriate time.  Explore knowledge to action and the “K2A Essentials” toolkit to understand the value of this skill. 

Hospital Episode Statistics  

The hospital episode statistics data set provides valuable hospital activity data.  This module supports new users in understand what is in the data set, how to understand the data and how to extract the data.  

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On completion of these modules, health and care professionals will be able to describe the concepts of population health management and how it fits with current health policy. They will understand a variety of skills that are essential to anyone undertaking population health analysis; they will discover the hospital episodes statistics data set; understand methods such as health needs assessment, and segmentation and risk stratification; learn the principles of good data visualisation and surveillance.  They will also understand how to communicate their intelligence effectively to the appropriate stakeholders. 

Meet the team

• Janine Dellar – Associate Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East Midlands
• Dr Jackie Chin – Population Health Management team, Primary Care and System Transformation Directorate, NHS England
• James Harrison – Senior Knowledge Transfer Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East of England
• Dr Robyn Bates – Public Health Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East Midlands
• Nina Robery – Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the North West
• Sally James – Public Health Workforce Specialist, Health Education England in the Midlands
• Peter Cornish – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East
• Sarah Preece – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East. 

Introduction to Population Health Management Team

• Katherine Calder – Senior Programme Lead, Population Health Management team, NHS England 
• Nicole Bilham – Senior Programme Manager, Population Health Management (PHM) Team, NHS England  
• Barbara Coyle – Associate Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within Yorkshire and the Humber 
• Sophie Hodges – Graduate Analyst – Project Manager, Population Health Management Team, NHS England.

Assessing Needs Team

• Don Sinclair – Associate Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities : Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East 
• Peter Cornish – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East 
• Sylvia Godden – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within London.

Population Segmentation Team

• Gareth Wrench – Associate Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the West Midlands 
• Matthew Francis – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the West Midlands 
• Simon Orange – Senior Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within Yorkshire and the Humber 
• Jason Pickles – Head of Systems and Solutions Development in the Strategy and Development team, NHS England, Analysis and Intelligence Service.

Risk Stratification

• Nick Grudgings – Senior Programme Manager – Population Health Management team, NHS England. 
• Matthew Francis – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the Midlands. 
• Martina Fonseca – Senior Analyst, Analytics Unit, NHS England. 

• Nicole Bilham – Senior Programme Manager, Population Health Management team, NHS England. 

Introduction to Population Health Surveillance

• Olugbenga Olatunde – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South West 
• Don Sinclair – Associate Director, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East
• James Hollinshead – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the Midlands 
• Peter Cornish – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities: Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East

Data visualisation

• Matthew Francis – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the West Midlands
• Simon Orange – Principal Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within Yorkshire and the Humber 
• Jo Wall – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East 
• Nina Robery – Principal Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the North West 
• Mark Parker – Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East of England 
• Kirsty Roe – Principal Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the North East and Yorkshire.

Knowledge to Action 

• Natalie Cantillon – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East Midlands 
• Denise McCoy – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within London 
• Laura Griffith – Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the Midlands 
• Mia Moilanen – Analytical Programme Manager, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the North East and Yorkshire.

Hospital Episode Statistics 

Olugbenga Olatunde – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South West

Sylvia Godden – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within London 

Antoinette Woodhouse – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East of England 

Jo Watson – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East 

Robel Feleke – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Office for Health Improvement and Disparities:  Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within London. 

How to access

To access this elfh programme, you will require a Learning Hub account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below. Note that if you hold a full elfh account, you can sign into the Learning Hub using your existing login credentials.

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