DIGITAL HEALTH INNOVATION AWARD
Breaking Free Group
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Highly innovative in its approach to supporting highly vulnerable, hard to reach groups using digital technology to overcome complex barriers.
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Breaking Free Online( Health and Justice) is a comprehensive and clinically robust digital treatment programme for alcohol and drug addiction in the form of a web application. Developed specifically for use within the criminal justice system, it enables offenders to overcome substance dependency, which is a key driver of offending behaviour.
back into the community. Consequently, it became the world’ s first online healthcare intervention designed specifically for offenders to be implemented within prisons.
A team of clinical psychologists and addiction specialists at Breaking Free Group developed the programme in consultation with the National Offender Management Service( NOMS) at the Ministry of Justice. It is the first digital healthcare programme ever to be approved as an‘ Effective Regime Intervention’ by the Ministry of Justice.
The programme was commissioned by NHS England for ten prisons in the north-west as an integral part of the Gateways pathfinder, an important government initiative to reduce reoffending rates by strengthening support for offenders with substance misuse difficulties when they are released from custody
Andrew Catto, NHS England, Clive Bawden, Breaking Free Group and Dr Christopher Parker, WMAHSN
DIGITAL HEALTH
HIGHLY COMMENDED
U Assure
NHS but across the public sector as a must-have support tool. Developed in house by the NHS, for the NHS, feedback on the system has been universally positive.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU team and Dr Christopher Parker, WMAHSN
Working with CCGs across the country, the Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit( CSU) have developed U Assure, a web-based system which could be used by their clients to capture information assets, contracts, safe-havens, risks, data flows and data sharing agreements. This unique dual system, the first in the country, is being rapidly taken up not just by the
The U Assure tool brings together complex processes in a user-friendly system to address information risks, an area of real concern to the NHS.
U Assure is an automated corporate governance model that supports the information governance asset register, data mapping and information risk requirements. It also has an Equality Impact Risk Assessment tool. U Assure helps organisations audit the information they hold and manage its associated risk.
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