Workforce South East 3 project

The South East 3 (SE3) workforce project

In the South east region of England, the three AHSNs, Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), Oxford and Wessex have been working together on supporting the rollout of three innovations that have workforce impacts:

• Sleepio, an online, six-week self-help Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programme for insomnia. Sleepio delivers CBT via a fully automated, interactive web-based tool and is supported by 12 Randomised Control Trial evidence.
• S12 Solutions, a mobile application and website created to make Mental Health Act assessment setup and claim form processes quicker, simpler, and more secure.
• eRD (electronic Repeat Dispensing), which enables GPs to authorise up to a year’s worth of repeat medication for patients whose medicines are relatively stable.

A regional story through impact analysis

To understand the impact of these interventions on the workforce, a high-level impact analyses for each innovation took place with the aim of assessing the potential in-year net benefits of these three interventions across KSS, Oxford and Wessex between April 2020 and April 2021.

The reports and their accompanying infographics, produced by our analytics and evaluation partner Unity Insights, demonstrate some modelled (i.e. monetised) benefits and some unmodelled benefits where there either wasn’t enough data or the benefits were more qualitative in nature.

Whilst these reports are a significant milestone in the life of the AHSN workforce programme, they serve as a springboard to show us the art of the possible in demonstrating the value innovation can add to: recipients of care, health and care systems and the people involved in delivering care aka our workforce!