Additional ICS-level estates and occupancy data coming to SHAPE
The SHAPE team is working with NHS England and Community Health Partnerships (CHP) to add even more comprehensive information about the country’s healthcare estate to the platform.
SHAPE already includes over 100 national data sets to support place-based decision making, including population demographics and projections, NHS organisations, comprehensive primary care estate information and travel time analysis.
Following the successful delivery of the Primary Care Data Gathering exercise and the PCN Toolkit programme which provided a consistent framework for primary care estates planning, the team will be expanding the data SHAPE holds, adding acute, mental health and community premises and occupier information to the platform.
The upgrade to SHAPE will support continued infrastructure planning by providing a consistent and current database for ICSs.
ICSs are currently validating and reviewing their premises, occupier and sector information; this is going to be imported into the application later this year. Once uploaded, ICSs will be able to see this alongside other national datasets to support strategy and business case development.
There will also be some enhancements to some of the analysis tools within SHAPE to support scenario planning.
Michael Boland, Product Lead at Parallel, the developers of SHAPE, said:
“When logging into SHAPE, users will now notice that they’re redirected from the PCDG Atlas to the new Strategy Atlas.
“By mid-November, premises and occupier information for the entire estate will be viewable within SHAPE, alongside some expanded KPI charts and summary reports. By the end of the year, users with the relevant permissions will also be able to edit and manage their data within the platform itself.”
The SHAPE team is running training sessions to demonstrate what is already in SHAPE and what’s to come. The free hour-long training sessions are available to all SHAPE users from an ICB who want to know more about using SHAPE to support your infrastructure and estates planning, and will cover how you can use tools to look at population indicators, IMD deciles and quantiles, and health inequalities, and identify partner organisations within your ICS.
