Integrated Care Boards
Medflow is being designed to support system-level visibility across assurance, workforce, actions and operational priorities while preserving appropriate organisational ownership and information boundaries.
For ICB leadership teams, Medflow can provide a clearer way to understand shared priorities, identify variation and support coordinated follow-up across participating organisations.
System-level oversight
ICB leadership teams need to understand operational priorities across multiple organisations while each organisation retains responsibility for its own governance, workforce and day-to-day delivery.
Each organisation manages its own workforce, assurance, governance and operational responsibilities.
System-level teams often rely on separate reports, local systems and manually consolidated information to understand the wider picture.
Some workforce, assurance and operational themes require coordination across more than one organisation.
System-level visibility requires appropriate access, clear information boundaries and agreed sharing arrangements.
System operating model
Medflow is designed to preserve local organisational responsibility while creating the foundation for appropriately governed system-level insight.
Each organisation holds its own assurance, workforce, actions, governance.
Assurance & quality
Where appropriately shared, Medflow can support a clearer system-level view of assurance priorities while participating organisations retain responsibility for their own governance and assurance activity.
See relevant assurance information from participating organisations.
Identify assurance themes that may require coordinated discussion or support.
Maintain visibility of relevant actions and follow-up across organisations.
Identify differences that may warrant further review without reducing organisations to a single score.
System workforce
Medflow can support system-level visibility of relevant workforce requirements where this forms part of the agreed information-sharing model.
See relevant workforce requirements, training and checks across participating organisations.
Understand relevant training activity and upcoming requirements across organisations.
See relevant workforce availability information where appropriate to the agreed system view.
Identify workforce themes that may require coordinated attention or discussion.
Variation & priorities
System-level comparison should help leadership teams understand variation and identify areas for further review while keeping organisational context visible.
Use consistent definitions where system-level comparison is appropriate.
Treat variation as a prompt for further review rather than a final judgement.
Participating organisations remain responsible for their own operational information and actions.
Use system-level visibility to support discussion, shared learning and targeted follow-up.
Actions & follow-up
System-level priorities may involve actions owned by different organisations or leadership teams. Medflow can help keep ownership, deadlines and progress visible.
Track actions owned by the ICB or system-level team.
Maintain visibility of relevant local actions without removing organisational responsibility.
See progress where coordinated action is required across more than one organisation.
Governance by design
Medflow is designed around appropriate access, organisation-controlled sharing and clear information boundaries.
Participating organisations retain appropriate control over information shared into system-level views.
Access is designed around the role and responsibilities of the person using the information.
Where appropriate, information can be aggregated or anonymised for wider system-level oversight.
Make clear what information is being used, why it is being shared and who can access it.
Executive visibility
Medflow can support structured reporting across assurance, workforce and shared operational priorities for system-level leadership discussions.
Capability status
Medflow publishes product capability status transparently so organisations can distinguish between functionality available today, design-partnership capabilities and planned development.
System implementation
An ICB rollout should preserve organisational ownership while creating a consistent implementation and governance approach across participating organisations.
Understand the ICB structure, participating organisations, priorities and intended use cases.
Define roles, access, information boundaries and appropriate sharing arrangements.
Set up organisational relationships, users, roles and relevant Medflow capabilities.
Support participating organisations through structured onboarding and role-appropriate guidance.
Review system-level views with participating teams and refine the implementation based on real use.
ICB design partnership
Medflow can work with ICB leadership teams to understand system-level operational use cases, governance requirements and the information views that would provide meaningful value across participating organisations.
AI with a practical purpose
MIKI can support the organisation of information and help surface areas that may require attention. Healthcare professionals and system leaders remain responsible for interpretation, decisions and actions.
Medflow is developed around the security, information-governance and clinical-safety requirements expected of healthcare technology.
Control
Implemented / Ongoing
Personal data is processed within Medflow's UK GDPR and data-protection governance framework.
Control
Implemented
Customer platform data is hosted within approved UK cloud infrastructure.
Assessment
Standards Met
Medflow has published its Data Security and Protection Toolkit assessment with a Standards Met status.
Verify this statusCertification
In Progress
Medflow is currently preparing for Cyber Essentials Plus certification as part of our ongoing cybersecurity assurance programme.
Certification
Planned
Our information-security controls and governance are being developed with ISO 27001 principles in mind. Formal certification is planned as Medflow progresses through its assurance roadmap.
Assessment
In Progress
Medflow is progressing its assessment against the NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria as part of our wider NHS assurance pathway.
Process
In Progress
Clinical risk management is embedded within our product development lifecycle in line with DCB0129, supported by our Clinical Safety Officer.
Integrated Care Boards
Talk to Medflow about how assurance, workforce, actions and operational priorities could be brought into a clearer, appropriately governed view across participating organisations.
