Daniel Ray: on direct data flows
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science says it’s time to end central returns; data needs to flow faster and it needs to flow straight from local to national systems.
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HSCIC publishes Data Quality Maturity Index
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has published its first Data Quality Maturity Index, which assesses NHS providers on the quality of the data they submit to the centre.
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Daniel Ray: on mapping a route to better quality data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre’s new director of data science starts a new analytics column by reflecting on the long journey that NHS data items can take; and on how to make sure they arrive in the best possible state.
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Dr Foster focuses on data quality
Dr Foster has called for the quality of NHS data to be given the same priority as hitting targets.
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Lancashire spends £1.5m on consultants
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has spent £1.5 million on consultancy firm Ernst and Young to improve its performance management and reporting functions after a series of failures in the area.
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Walsall to solve EPR issues by September
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust aims to get to ‘business as usual’ with its Lorenzo electronic patient record system by the end of September.
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HSCIC plans a national tech strategy
The Health and Social Care Information Centre plans to publish a national technology and data strategy in summer 2015.
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GPs confident their data is fit to share
Four out of five GPs believe the quality of their practice data is fit for sharing, according to a survey on the future of general practice IT.
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CfH issues new SCR data quality guide
NHS Connecting for Health has issued new guidance on the data quality standards GP practices are expected to meet before data is uploaded to create Summary Care Records. The interim guidance follows the ending of the IM&T Directed Enhanced Service (DES) in March 2009, which had set the data quality standards practices had to meet before […]
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NHS Choices to publish Quality Accounts
The Department of Health has approved plans for healthcare providers to publish annual Quality Accounts on the NHS Choices website in an effort to increase accountability, drive quality and improve patient choice. The plans follow a three month public consultation, which finished in December, on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts, ahead of the legal […]
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