Inconsistent Healthcare Data Infrastructure
Lack of a consistent and mature data infrastructure across NHS providers, hindering technological adoption and data sharing.
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F262 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
All healthcare provider organisations, in conjunction with their healthcare professionals, should develop and maintain systems which give them: Effective real-time information on the performance of each of their services against patient safety and minimum quality standards; Effective real-time information of the performance of each of their consultants and specialist teams in relation to mortality, morbidity, outcome and patient...
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F267 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
All such statistics should be made available online and accessible through provider websites, as well as other gateways such as the Care Quality Commission.
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BRIS-154 - Invest in world-class IT systems for efficient healthcare data collection and feedback
The need to invest in world-class IT systems must be recognised so that the fundamental principles of data collection, validation and management can be observed: that data be collected only once; that the data be part and parcel of systems used to support healthcare professionals in their care of patients; and that trusts and teams of healthcare professionals...
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F266 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
In designing the methodology for such statistics and their presentation, the Department of Health, the Information Centre, the Care Quality Commission and the specialty organisations should seek and have regard to the views of patient groups and the public about the information needed by them.
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F265 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
The Department of Health, the Information Centre and the Care Quality Commission should engage with each representative specialty organisation in order to consider how best to develop comparative statistics on the efficacy of treatment in that specialty, for publication and use in performance oversight, revalidation, and the promotion of patient knowledge and choice.
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1 - Single consultant data repository
We recommend that there should be a single repository of the whole practice of consultants across England, setting out their practising privileges and other critical consultant performance data – for example, how many times a consultant has performed a particular procedure and how recently. This should be accessible and understandable to the public. It should be mandated for...
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F272 - Improving and assuring accuracy
There is a demonstrable need for an accreditation system to be available for healthcare-relevant statistical methodologies. The power to create an accreditation scheme has been included in the Health and Social Care Act 2012, it should be used as soon as practicable.
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F260 - Information standards
The standards applied to statistical information about serious untoward incidents should be the same as for any other healthcare information and in particular the principles around transparency and accessibility. It would, therefore, be desirable for the data to be supplied to, and processed by, the Information Centre and, through them, made publicly available in the same way as...
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COVID-M4.4 - Proportionate Access to Linked Healthcare Records
The UK government and devolved administrations should work together, with their respective health delivery services, to facilitate and coordinate regulatory bodies' access to healthcare records in order to make the post-authorisation safety monitoring of new vaccines and therapeutics more efficient. In particular, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency should be granted specific and proportionate access to comprehensive...
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F264 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
In the case of each specialty, a programme of development for statistics on the efficacy of treatment should be prepared, published, and subjected to regular review.
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F263 - Enhancing the use analysis and dissemination of healthcare information
It must be recognised to be the professional duty of all healthcare professionals to collaborate in the provision of information required for such statistics on the efficacy of treatment in specialties.
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BRIS-150 - Support Hospital Episode Statistics as a reliable national resource for monitoring outcomes
The Hospital Episode Statistics database should be supported as a major national resource which can be used reliably, with care, to undertake the monitoring of a range of healthcare outcomes.
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POH-13 - Close HSS Dispute Resolution Procedure when HSSA opens
The current Dispute Resolution Procedure in HSS should be closed once all claimants currently within the Procedure have either (a) settled their claims or (b) transferred to HSSA. No claimant who is not in the Dispute Resolution Procedure when HSSA opens should be eligible to join the Dispute Resolution Procedure.
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FR-1 - Single Core Data Set
The Inquiry recommends that the UK government and the Welsh Government improve data collected by children's social care and criminal justice agencies concerning child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation by the introduction of one single core data set covering both England and Wales. In order to facilitate this, these agencies should produce consistent and compatible data about...
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F271 - Improving and assuring accuracy
To the extent that summary hospital-level mortality indicators are not already recognised as national or official statistics, the Department of Health and the Health and Social Care Information Centre should work towards establishing such status for them or any successor hospital mortality figures, and other patient outcome statistics, including reports showing provider-level detail.
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IHRD-91 - Synchronise Patient Safety Systems
The Department, HBSC, PHA, RQIA and HSC Trusts should synchronise electronic patient safety incident and risk management software systems, codes and classifications to enable effective oversight and analysis of regional information.
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F270 - Improving and assuring accuracy
There is a need for a review by the Department of Health, the Information Centre and the UK Statistics Authority of the patient outcome statistics, including hospital mortality and other outcome indicators. In particular, there could be benefit from consideration of the extent to which these statistics can be published in a form more readily useable by the...
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F269 - Improving and assuring accuracy
The only practical way of ensuring reasonable accuracy is vigilant auditing at local level of the data put into the system. This is important work, which must be continued and where possible improved.
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IBI-7f(ii) - NHSBT Transfusion Outcome Funding
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: To the extent that the funding for digital transformation does not already cover the setting up and operation of this framework, bespoke funding should be provided.
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IBI-7f(i) - Transfusion Outcome Framework
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That a framework be established for recording outcomes for recipients of blood components. That those records be used by NHS bodies to improve transfusion practice (including by providing such information to haemovigilance bodies). Success in achieving this will be measured by the extent to which the SHOT reports for the previous three...
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BRIS-148 - Implement a single, trusted system for collecting clinical and administrative data
The current ‘dual’ system of collecting data in the NHS in separate administrative and multiple clinical systems is wasteful and anachronistic. A single approach to collecting data should be adopted, which clinicians can trust and use and from which information about both clinical and administrative performance can be derived.
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F36 - Use of information for effective regulation
A coordinated collection of accurate information about the performance of organisations must be available to providers, commissioners, regulators and the public, in as near real time as possible, and should be capable of use by regulators in assessing the risk of non-compliance. It must not only include statistics about outcomes, but must take advantage of all safety related...
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IBI-7f(iii) - Blood Tracking Systems Funding
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be regarded as a priority across the UK.
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LAMI-78 - Implement single set of records for each child across health professionals.
Within a given location, health professionals should work from a single set of records for each child.
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BRIS-152 - Review incentives for data quality; include trust performance in validation process
The system of incentives and penalties to encourage trusts to provide complete and validated data of a high quality to the national database should be reviewed. Any new system must include reports of each trust’s performance in terms of the quality and timeliness of the submission of data. The systems within a trust for producing data of a...
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BRIS-151 - Improve status, training, and qualifications of clinical coding staff for data accuracy
Systems for clinical audit and for monitoring performance rely on accurate and complete data. Competent staff, trained in clinical coding, and supported in their work are required: the status, training and professional qualifications of clinical coding staff should be improved.
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BRIS-149 - Improve clinician confidence in Patient Administration Systems data through collaboration
Steps should be taken nationally and locally to build the confidence of clinicians in the data recorded in the Patient Administration Systems in trusts (which is subsequently aggregated nationally to form the Hospital Episode Statistics). Such steps should include the establishment by trusts of closer working arrangements between clincians and clinical coding staff.
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BRIS-109 - Create single, unified system for reporting and analysing sentinel events
There should a single, unified, accessible system for reporting and analysing sentinel events, with clear protocols indicating the categories of information which must be reported to a national database.
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IHRD-27 - Electronic Patient Information Systems
Electronic patient information systems should be developed to enable records of observation and intervention to become immediately accessible to all involved in care.
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F261 - Information standards
The Information Centre should be enabled to undertake more detailed statistical analysis of its own than currently appears to be the case.
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F258 - Role of the Health and Social Care Information Centre
The Information Centre should continue to develop and maintain learning, standards and consensus with regard to information methodologies, with particular reference to comparative performance statistics.
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F268 - Resources
Resources must be allocated to and by provider organisations to enable the relevant data to be collected and forwarded to the relevant central registry.
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P2-25 - Postgraduate training governance clarity
Postgraduate training providers using donors should ensure clarity in their governance and information-sharing, in particular where the providers are linked to both university and NHS settings. This clarity should include formal agreements, where relevant, including management, governance and Human Tissue Authority licensing arrangements for the organisations involved.
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IBI-7b - Transfusion 2024 Review Progress
Review of progress towards the Transfusion 2024 recommendations: Progress in implementation of the Transfusion 2024 recommendations be reviewed, and next steps be determined and promulgated; and that in Scotland the 5 year plan is reviewed in or before 2027 with a view to determining next steps.
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IBI-7a(iii) - Transfusion Performance Benchmarking
Consideration be given to standardising and benchmarking transfusion performance between hospitals in order to deliver better patient blood management
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WATE-(70) - Strengthen national statistics services in Wales for management information system
The national statistics services in Wales should be strengthened to provide a comprehensive management information system.
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IBI-9f - National Haemophilia Database Support
That the National Haemophilia Database, run by the UKHCDO, merits the support of additional central funding.
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