DAWN ALLAN
TECHNICAL INFORMATION MANAGER (CANCER)
BIO I started working in NHS cancer services in 1991 and have remained within the cancer services information and digital areas ever since. My current role within the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU), the National Cancer Registry for Wales, is to lead on a variety of specialist projects to support data acquisition, national data standards, business change and service improvements. Returning to post-graduate education was initially daunting but I have had a real positive and enjoyable learning experience. I have learnt new models and techniques which will help to identify areas within systems and services where benefits to both the organisation and patients can be realised to develop and drive service improvements and aid continuous learning.
RESEARCH IMPACT Incorporating genomic data (somatic and germline) into a population-based cancer registry holds great potential for the continuation and future developments in cancer research, service transformation and patient outcomes. The study investigated the benefits and challenges of incorporating this genomic data within the cancer registration record. A framework was developed, using an input-process-output model, that can be used to understand population based registry processes, stakeholder requirements and where added value to services could be provided.
MARK CAHALANE
HEAD OF DIGITAL SERVICES MANAGEMENT CARDIFF & VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD
BIO I found this course in the very earliest days of establishing Regional Digital Management arrangements in the Cardiff and Vale region. As senior programmes manager I was eager to embrace the philosophy of Value-Based Health and Care, as our means of determining and prioritising the works we would undertake to deliver greater integrated and informed care across our organisations. I’ve found the course challenging on my time (especially since I’ve taken on a directorate team), but both hugely interesting and delivered by impassioned and empathetic staff.
RESEARCH IMPACT I investigated the challenges and opportunities for the Value-Based health and care paradigm to be used as a means of prioritising the allocation of RPB (Regional Partnership Board) funds. Perhaps due to pre-existing collegial relationships with RPB members, I was able to extract hugely frank and enlightening interview content from a dozen RPB members. The investigation backed up some recent learning from the King’s Fund into the C&V RPB, but also consider those pressures and dynamics against a VBHC to draw out specific nuance and learning from RPB members’ testimony. This learning will be presented to the CaV RPB in late 2023/24 as it reconsiders its operating model (including opportunity to deploy VBHC techniques and tooling) in the light of the current funding crisis in Health and Care Wales.
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