The NHS Population Health Management Conference

The NHS Population Health Management Conference

Population Health is an approach that aims to improve physical and mental health outcomes, promote wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities across an entire population.

A relatively new approach called Population Health Management (PHM) is helping the NHS understand our current, and predict our future health and care needs so actions can be made to tailor better care and support to individuals, design more joined-up and sustainable health and care services and make better use of public resources.

Implementing population health management services is a key focus within the NHS long term plan and is supporting ICS’s to understand the areas of greatest health need and match NHS services to meet them. These solutions are becoming increasingly sophisticated in identifying groups of people who are at risk of adverse health outcomes and predicting which individuals are most likely to benefit from different health and care interventions, as well as highlighting health inequalities.

The use of de-personalised data, extracted from local records, will enable more sophisticated population health management approaches and support world-leading research.

NHS Digital’s population health team collects and analyses data about the health of the UK population, this includes data about NHS screening programmes, immunisations, births, deaths, general health and lifestyle. This data is siloed into 4 groups, lifestyle statistics, population, geography and international statistics, screening and immunisations and surveys.

Our upcoming conference aims to provide updates and clarity on this developing strategy and share best practices and outcomes from across the NHS Ecosystem.