Our Aims
What is it?
Across Barking & Dagenham, we have joined up data via our Care City Cohort dataset. This is used to understand how the population uses services alongside wider social determinants of health. We hope to translate our research findings into actionable insights for service staff, system leaders and local policy makers.
Why are we doing this?
When people talk about their experiences of the health service, one theme is that they have to tell their story many times to different clinicians. The health system is working to fix this – through joining up data. We want to improve people’s care, and we want to learn over time, to help the system improve.
In this project, we want to ensure that the lessons we are learning are heard and understood by leaders who run the health and care system. Often, research is translated and shared for public facing platforms, however it is rarely translated for system leaders and policy-makers.
Research findings should advance understanding of quality of care (and highlight gaps both in service delivery and target populations), deliver context and content for service improvement, and support consideration of where to prioritise action in an increasingly scarce health economy to support sustainability.
Our aim is to create and share tools and resources for local policy-makers and commissioning audience.
What has the data shown so far?
- Access to vaccines in Barking & Dagenham – In light of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, we have used the dataset to identify some lessons in the inequalities to accessing the flu vaccine and how this can support the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.
- Do Care Homes have One GP or Many? – We looked at care home residents in the borough and which GP surgeries care for them. In particular, we wanted to understand whether multiple GP surgeries are working in the same care home.
- Domiciliary Care and Hospital Discharges – With an increasing need for domiciliary care after a hospital admission, the Care City Cohort has been used to highlight the key themes linked between domiciliary care packages and a hospital discharge.
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Care City : Care City is a centre for healthy ageing innovation, research, and education. It is based in Barking and works across the four boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, and Waltham Forest, with reach into Essex and surrounding areas through provision networks.
