The National Blueprinting programme shares blueprints, legacy digital playbooks, good practice and associated knowledge artefacts from previous digital transformation projects in the NHS. This helps NHS organisations to accelerate cost-effective digitisation leading to better health outcomes and improved staff experience.

About this programme

Blueprinting is an important part of our support for frontline trusts, health providers, and integrated care boards (ICBs) across the health and care system. A ‘Blueprint’ captures a digital transformation project delivered by a trust or care organisation, detailing key activities, decisions, learnings and advice throughout the project, as well as benefits delivered.

Blueprints:

• provide peer to peer learning from digital transformation programmes
• describe digital initiatives to improve safety and quality of care, clinical outcomes, and patient and staff experience
• provide a structured collection of knowledge assets and associated methodology
• provide step by step guides that can be tailored to suit local needs
• enable the NHS and care organisations to deliver digital solutions more quickly, efficiently and cost effectively

The focus of the Blueprinting programme is to:

• raise the profile of good practice work to a national level
• help other areas dealing with the same or similar issues
• help raise the quality, safety and efficiency of care provision
• give an opportunity to work in a more integrated way across care and health
• encourage reflective practice for informaticians
• manage the creation and provision of Blueprints as step-by-step guides that others can use and adopt

The Blueprinting programme has a collection of knowledge assets (Blueprints, Blueprints on a page, technical annexes, project artefacts, videos and events) designed to enable peer to peer learning across the NHS and care organisations.

These Blueprints highlight essential elements for sustainable health improvements, such as organisational leadership, culture, clinical and staff engagement, and the necessary people and processes.