Funded by The Health Foundation, in partnership with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (SHFT).
The project sought to explore the use of data and current analytical capability in health visiting practice in Hampshire. It aimed to inform a test and learn development project to support health visiting services within SHFT to ‘move beyond bean counting’ and make better use of data. The project specifically focused on the use of routinely collected data from a range of sources to improve the identification of children with risk and vulnerability factors who are currently ‘hidden’ (i.e., they are known to services but are not receiving the support they need, as information is not utilised effectively, or is lost in current electronic records).
Through co-design with SHFT health visiting staff, a new health visitor Digital Lead post was developed along with a prototype data visualisation tool to collate key data and support clinical decision making in health visitor practice.
To understand more about how this was achieved please read the “how to guide” which was developed to disseminate the learning to other health visiting services with key considerations to improve data use and analytical capability in health visiting.