About the Population Health Management programme

This programme has been developed to support analysts and other health and care professionals working in population health to build their knowledge and skills within this area. Population health management (PHM) is central to the development of and is a new focus of analytical work for analysts working across these partnerships.

Population health management (PHM) is an approach that uses data to help health and care systems to improve population health and wellbeing. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) response to date has highlighted the pivotal role of PHM, with primary and secondary care providers needing to risk stratify and proactively support key population groups with personalised care models. PHM will become increasingly important as systems move to formally establish ICSs and will be pivotal to the way that the new systems will work together to improve the health of their populations.

The elearning modules that have been developed are:

Introduction to Population Health Management

An Introduction to Population Health Management – what it is, why it’s important and what you need to get started

Assessing Needs

This session describes the main stages in the process to assess needs of a population

A Practical Introduction to Population Segmentation

A practical step by step run through of the methods needed to undertake population segmentation as part of a population health management approach, with signposting to complementary resources, examples and user stories

2 new sessions have now been developed:

• Risk Stratification

A practical run through of the methods needed to undertake risk stratification as part of a population health management approach

• Introduction to Population Health Surveillance

This session describes the concept of population health surveillance and how it can be used to identify and monitor threats to the health of the population, so that actions can be taken.

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On completion of these modules, health and care professionals will be able to describe the concepts of population health management and how it fits with current health policy. They will understand healthcare needs assessment and be able to describe sources of data that underpin population health need. They will also understand the concepts of population segmentation.

Meet the team

• Janine Dellar – Associate Director, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East Midlands.
• Dr Jackie Chin – Population Health Management team, Primary Care and System Transformation Directorate, NHS England and NHS Improvement.
• James Harrison – Senior Knowledge Transfer Facilitator, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East of England.
• Dr Robyn Bates – Public Health Analyst, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the East Midlands.
• Nina Robery – Senior Public Health Intelligence Specialist, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the North West.
• Sally James – Public Health Workforce Specialist, Health Education England in the Midlands

Introduction to Population Health Management Team

• Katherine Calder – Senior Programme Lead, Population Health Management team, NHS England and Improvement.
• Nicole Bilham – Senior Programme Manager, Population Health Management (PHM) Team, NHS England and Improvement.
• Barbara Coyle – Associate Director, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within Yorkshire and the Humber.
• Sophie Hodges – Graduate Analyst – Project Manager, Population Health Management Team, NHS England and Improvement.

Assessing Needs Team

• Don Sinclair – Associate Director, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East.
• Peter Cornish – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East.
• Sylvia Godden – Principal Knowledge Translator Facilitator, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within London.

Population Segmentation Team

• Gareth Wrench – Associate Director, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the West Midlands.
• Matthew Francis – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the West Midlands.
• Simon Orange – Senior Health Intelligence Specialist, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within Yorkshire and the Humber.
• Jason Pickles – Head of Systems and Solutions Development in the Strategy and Development team, NHS England and Improvement Data, Analysis and Intelligence Service.

Risk Stratification

• Nick Grudgings – Senior Programme Manager – Population Health Management team, NHS England and NHS Improvement.
• Matthew Francis – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the Midlands.
• Martina Fonseca – Senior Analyst, Analytics Unit, NHSx.
• Nicole Bilham – Senior Programme Manager, Population Health Management team, NHS England and Improvement.

Introduction to Population Health Surveillance

• Olugbenga Olatunde – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South West
• Don Sinclair – Associate Director, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East
• James Hollinshead – Principal Public Health Intelligence Analyst, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the Midlands
• Peter Cornish – Analytical Programme Manager, Public Health England’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service within the South East

How to access

In order to access the Population Health Management programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.

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To view the Population Health Management programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.

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Not an NHS organisation?

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.

To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.

Registering large numbers of users

If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Population Health Management programme, please contact elfh directly.

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS

For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.

More information

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