Supporting the Programme. This is a big, ambitious programme. We will support it with a well-staffed transformation and engagement team made up of senior clinicians and experienced informaticians and technologists from within the Trust and our selected supplier, responsible for designing and promoting best-practice use of the technology, and with an understanding of how to manage and use information properly through adaptive change. Our supplier will therefore play a key role in the process of identifying and pursuing the realisation of benefits associated with the roll-out of the GDE functions. Many users will welcome the switch from paper-based recording to real-time digital capture, but we will be ready to assist those who cannot readily adopt the new techniques. The programme is built upon a strong patient and public engagement model, using people who have been intimately involved throughout. The programme will also lead to a far stronger collaboration model between all organisations within BNSSG. These relationships and collaboration models will continue to drive improvements in the delivery of care far beyond the completion of the GDE programme. We will work very closely with our system suppliers, looking to them for support and advice, but also pressing them for timely delivery of robust, tested products. GDE requires us to take on the responsibility of true pioneers. Most of what we do will be a first for our Trust; some of what we do will be a first for the NHS; and some innovations may truly be internationally ground breaking, e.g. the fully integrated communication and task- management platform Careflow. We will not take risks with patient care, or with patient data. But we will not step back from trying new things and backing some bold initiatives. We will seek advice and support from partner hospitals in Europe and America, and we will build a strong relationship with a network of local trusts and CCGs so that our successes can be turned into a blueprint than can be built upon by other organisations within our own community and across the NHS. University Hospitals Bristol has always been an innovator. This programme will support our people and our patients with a set of powerful information tools. It will secure our status as a global innovator in the field of digital health.
