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The beginnings

  • In 2013 a paper was written entitled “ICT Provision for e-recruitment, Workforce Information”. It was was recommended that information systems associated with trainees and learners were nationalised. At that point Health Education England was a year old and it’s structure still reflected the legacy organisations e.g. old Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and Deaneries..

  • 2014 a “business case” was widely discussed and there was agreement that HEE should procure a multi-professional system to replace myriad local systems.

  • November 2014 the TIS Programme was project as launched, with an Executive Director (Nicki Latham) as the SRO.  Rob Pink seconded from WES/TV initially part-time.​

  • 2014/15 - System Audit - Assessment of systems revealed:​

    • 113 information systems​

    • 62 “industrialised” spread-sheet systems​

    • Cost of £3.2M per annum​

  • Early 2015 – Options Appraisal – “ What is TIS”?  This defined the scope., which at the time covered:

    • Directly managed programmes e.g. postgraduate doctors, where we had a requirement to record the specific trainee, and

    • Commissioned Programmes e.g. nurse training, where we had a requirement to record aggregate data.

  • May 2015 – Strategic Business Case to HEE Board was approved.

  • Summer 2015 - Requirements Gathering phase found:

    • 110+ multi-faceted requirements.​

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    • c. 30 functional areas.​

    • Provided the scope and scale of TIS and enabled the production of a Output Specification to inform a procurement planned in November 2015, as the intention (at the time) remained to procure a solution, or set of solutions.

Change of direction

  • In November 2015, on the verge of commencing a Department of Health supported procurement, the Cabinet Office intervened. They asked for us to review:

    • Intellectual property (IP) rights and ownership

    • HEE’s capability​

    • Contract length

  • The procurement was put on hold and eventually cancelled. We reformed the Programme to review an in-house “build” option, as this would close-off Cabinet Office concerns i.e., we would own IP, we would build our own capability, and remove contract constraints.

TIS Discovery phase

  • Jan to March 2016 - We procured a Digital Partner to run Discovery phase to look at the following:

    • User stories to inform first development priorities and verify the findings of the Output Specification (the work originally undertaken in the Summer of 2015).​

    • Technical architecture and other aspects​.

    • Future sourcing and procurement options (Strategy).

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Full business case

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  • Off the back of the Discovery, a Full Business Case (FBC) was written and approved by the HEE Board, the Department of Health and the Cabinet Office.

  • The FBC developed the strategic, economic, commercial, financial and management cases for TIS​.

  • The scope in the FBC was trainees and learners - note that the “commissioned programmes” was dropped due to wider organisational change. In scope was:

    • Doctors

    • Dentists

    • Pharmacy

    • Scientists

    • Public Health​

  • The HEE Board approved the FBC on the following conditions:

    • TIS would be transformational.​

    • TIS will be developed iteratively through time – not “big bang” i.e. agile.​

    • Adopt “Digital by Default” and the GDS Service Standards.​

    • Procure a Digital Delivery Partner to start us off.​

    • Systems will be built in-house where unique, otherwise “buy” i.e. build or buy.​

    • Development Team co-terminus with TIS with a high focus on “the business” and user needs.​

    • TIS will be for the business and user-centric.​

    • Will deliver benefits e.g. rationalisation of our system estate.​

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