THE Ministry of Health (MoH) and Imperial College, London exchanged Letters of Agreement for the participation in the Leading Health Systems Network (LHSN) recently.
LHSN is a joint initiative of Imperial College in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health. It is a collaborative network of healthcare leaders and organisations dedicated to improving healthcare delivery by effectively using available resources.
The network brings together the best ideas, models of care and strategies to drive sustained improvement, and connects healthcare leaders to a community of peers that share the same goals and challenges.
Participation in LHSN is a key activity towards meeting the MoH’s strategic priorities for the next five years – to make health everyone’s business, to prevent and control non-communicable diseases, and to deliver excellent quality services through alignment and consolidation, the ministry said in a statement.
The exchange of letters was conducted on May 27, 2016 during a study visit to Imperial College’s Institute of Global Health Innovation by a delegation from MoH led by Dr Hajah Maslina binti Haji Mohsin, Deputy Permanent Secretary (Professional) at the MoH. They were met by Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Director of the Institute and Chair of LHSN.
Dr Hajah Maslina binti Haji Mohsin (R), Deputy Permanent Secretary (Professional) at the Ministry of Health, and Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, Director of the Institute and Chair of Leading Health Systems Network – MOH
Throughout 2016, LHSN will be running a programme focusing on safer care. The Safer Care Accelerator brings together healthcare leaders and organisations to exchange insights, experiences and data concerning patient safety.
The first initiative within the Safer Care Accelerator is the Patient Safety Information Scorecard. This work will provide a comparative view of what information is used for patient safety around the world and how effectively this information is used across healthcare systems. The Scorecard will cover multiple categories of patient safety information (for example administrative data) collected across healthcare settings – from primary care, acute care, and mental health.
Within Brunei Darussalam, data derived from the Brunei Darussalam Healthcare Information and Management System (Bru-HIMS), the Ministry’s ‘one-patient one-record’ electronic system which now covers 95 per cent of our population, will be used as part of the Safer Care Accelerator programme to make improvements to the overall healthcare system in the country.
The use of quantitative data and sharing of best practice, combined with rigorous analysis in partnership with world-renowned institutions, serve towards the achievement of the ministry’s vision of a healthy Brunei Darussalam.
In addition to learning, the ministry looks forward to sharing and contributing examples of best practice with other like-minded organisations. Some of these examples include the lessons learnt from the recent consolidation of a number of small primary healthcare centres into the larger Berakas Health Centre, the use of management techniques such as lean methodology to reduce breast care referral waiting times from primary to secondary care, and original approaches in inter-sectoral partnership to prevent and control non-communicable diseases.
The ministry’s participation in the network is an innovative way of driving the health agenda forward and will contribute to improvements in health and healthcare delivery both in Brunei Darussalam and also globally, the statement noted.
Other participating institutions in the network include NHS England and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (United Kingdom), Vancouver Coastal Health (Canada), Hamad Medical Corporation (Qatar), Victoria Department of Health and Human Services (Australia), Changi General Hospital (Singapore) and Hong Kong Hospital Authority (Hong Kong).
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