DIGITAL HEALTH
“ I think we ' ll move into a broader healthcare setting , ensuring the data we ' re collecting can be turned into recorded outcomes ”
PAUL MCPARTLAN CEO , PLACES LEISURE healthcare setting , partnering with CCGs , doctors ' practices and local care providers , and I think we ' ll move towards a payment by results model , which will ensure that the data we ' re collecting can be turned into recorded outcomes ."
This would be similar to PROMS , the national Patient Reported Outcome Measures programme which has been running since 2009 . " We will need to show that as a provider we can make a difference . Interestingly , we are launching a scheme like this in Sheffield again , which has a really forward-thinking local authority . They want to have an impact on child obesity , so we ' ll be running schemes which will ensure children are active after school and at weekends , which is our bread and butter . The programme broadens from being just physical delivery to covering diet , nutrition , sleep and mental health , and we ' re partnering with a couple of other organisations to deliver it . If we make no impact , then we won ' t get paid or will get paid at baseline . But we ' ll get paid incentives if we can make a difference ."
" I think that payment by results and recorded outcome measures are the two indicators that will start to really form the future of leisure service delivery in the UK " he adds . " We were slowly moving in that direction but like everything else COVID- 19 has highlighted that the need is there . Deprivation in certain parts of the country is absolutely there and the data is screaming out for us to do something about it .
" We complain about how dreadful COVID has been , but it has given a lot of industries the kick they probably needed to accelerate some of these things and to be more joined up . Some will take time to move , and this is a monumental culture shift , but it is slowly becoming unstoppable in terms of where it is heading ." healthcareglobal . com 75