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PRIMIS Partnerships For Progress March 2004
Using Quality Information in Heath Communities
Dr Simon Barton and James Mechan
Using quality information in Health Communities
Dr. Simon Barton
Primary Care Advisor (IM&T)
Cornwall Information & Technology Services
Types of data
Patient-identifiable
Direct patient care
Research
GPs, practice nurses, researchers
Anonymised
Commissioning
Public Health
Development planning
Research
PCTs, Health Authority,
researchers
National Quality and Outcomes Framework Management and Analysis Sub-System
QMAS
QMAS – Principles
Single national system
Practice and PCT access to same information based on access rights
Reduced dependence on individual suppliers
Value for money
Sharing data from Primary Care
Why? Commissioning, planning, research
Extract with: MIQUEST & QMAS
Aggregate & present: Executive Information System, QMAS, Websites
Who commissions? Local & national
Who co-ordinates? No one!
The Fujitsu Solution
Using Quality Information in Health Communities
James MechanPublic Health Intelligence ManagerPreston PCT
Background Working in Public Health since 1990 Led a MIQUEST Pilot in Lancashire
1999 PCG working 1999 Commissioning and Performance
Management in 2002 Back to Public Health in 2003.
Primary Care Data Approximately 79% of contact with
the NHS is in Primary Care. Wealth of Data almost inaccessible.
Data not coded uniformly – so many local codes
Difference in use of Read Codes between practices
Data not recorded at all
So What Does Public Health Need it For?
Public Health Health Needs assessment Disease Prevalence Analysis Comparisons between practices for
Intervention penetration Health Equity Audit
So What Do PCT’s Need it For? NSF’s New GMS Contract Audit HEA - Care Gap Analysis Service re-modelling
(Commissioning)
The Way Forward Delivering the performance
management agenda in the NHS will depend on the availability of high quality information in general practice
Better, more consistent practice data
Readily available
