Wales procures GP data extract tool

NHS Wales is tendering for a data quality system worth up to £5.1m, which will extract data for external organisations.

The current system supports seven Local Health Boards, their 22 localities, 473 GP practices, and a host of national users including Public Health Wales and the Welsh Government.

A notice in the Official Journal of the European Union says the new system will help GP practices deliver, monitor and report on General Medical Services activities as well as national and local initiatives.

It will include software to extract, analyse, and present data held within the GP clinical systems and a query authoring tool to enable NHS Wales to make data queries.

It must integrate with the host GP clinical systems – EMIS and INPS hold national contracts in Wales – to provide enhanced functionality such as prompts and alerts.

The winning bidder will provide a “secure transfer mechanism for the export of aggregated and non-aggregated practice data to various data recipients”, data submission management, and a central data repository hosted within the NHS Wales Data Centre.

Recipients of these patient level data extractions, including identifiable and non-identifiable data,

include the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Project, the national diabetes audit and the predictive risk stratification model.

The contract for a system and associated products and services is worth between £2.1m and £5.1m and is due to go live on 1 July.

The initial contract period is for three years with options to extend up to a further two years.