From Analogue to Digital in Community Nursing

Despite being the backbone of healthcare outside hospitals, community nursing operates in a 'data desert', where a lack of high quality information undermines resource allocation, workforce planning, and patient outcomes. Not only that, but the technology community nurses rely on are unfit for purpose, making their working lives needlessly difficult with hours of time wasted on basic administrative tasks.

New research reveals the true picture - and what to do about it

Join us to get the first look at new research into the daily realities of district and community nursing - and how deploying the right technology could help increase team’s productivity and wellbeing

Produced by Heim, the study provides a rare, data-rich view into a service under pressure, and uses purpose-built software for community care to model an improved, alternative reality. The findings are stark: needlessly manual workarounds and wasted clinical hours.

Chaired by Pam Garside, Co-Chair, Cambridge Health Network, and with speakers including Siobhan Melia, National Adviser for Community Health Services at NHS England, we will discuss the findings of over 1,000 hours of nurse shadowing and in-depth data analysis of work in a busy London community team.

But the research doesn’t stop at diagnosis. It offers six clear, practical recommendations that could be implemented within weeks - saving the NHS invaluable staff time and money.

Join us to hear what’s really happening on the ground, and be part of the conversation on what needs to happen next in the shift from hospital community.