What is the ICS Strategy Atlas?
The ICS Strategy Atlas is now live, a new central ICS estates database that supports the development and maintenance of infrastructure strategies. Commissioned by NHS England, the ICS Strategy Atlas is held within SHAPE, the online data mapping and analysis tool that supports services and estates planning, and is free to access for NHS staff.
SHAPE helps Norfolk & Waveney ICS plan for the future
With around 500 buildings spread across its system, Norfolk and Waveney ICS knows the value of SHAPE to help plan for the future of their system. We talk to the ICS’s Estates Programme Manager, Craig Boyles, on the benefits he gets from the ICS Strategy Atlas.
Prioritisation matrix and pharmacy data
The ICS Strategy Atlas has some great new features to support your service and estates planning. We shine a spotlight on the prioritisation matrix and pharmacy data.
Use targeting to support neighbourhood planning
You can use SHAPE to understand pockets of population based on a particular population target. By selecting a central point for your neighbourhood, you can create a boundary of the closest 60,000 population and understand the age bands and gender of that population. Delving further into the data, you can interrogate that population’s deprivation levels and rural urban classification. Watch the video to find out how…
SHAPE training
SHAPE Place (free version for public sector) – 10.30-11.30am, Wednesday 30th April
ICS Data Management Tool (ICS Strategy Atlas users only) – 9.30-10.30am, Thursday 1st May
Sign up to any SHAPE training by logging into the SHAPE home page.
