Collection of Health Data from

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• David Gearing
• CHDGP
• Project Manager

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• Future of the Project

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Context

• Comprehensive EPRs in Primary Care will support
• Integration of patient care
• Evidence based practice
• Clinical audit/governance
• Quality and outcome-based performance monitoring
• Use of aggregate data to inform commissioning
• But use of clinical computer systems is varied
• Several reasons for this
• one is paucity of training and support

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CHDGP

• The CHDGP Project has been
• exploring practical issues involved in helping
  practices with clinical data recording
• developing and testing MIQUEST software for query
  and data extraction
• developing guidelines and training programmes
• running a comparative analysis service for pilots
• Proposed services build on experience gained

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Objectives

• Primary Care Groups
• need information derived from practice clinical
  systems
• will be focus of efforts to improve use of
  clinical systems

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Objectives

• Proposed services aimed at facilitators employed
  by PCGs (one or more) with aim of

• assessing and improving quality of recording
• motivating GPs by demonstrating benefits from
  EPRs
• enabling comparative analysis
• and
• avoiding duplication of effort

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Objectives

• Estimated demand
• 350 facilitators/teams over 3 years
• spread 125/125/100

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Proposed Services

• Training and Support
• Training needs assessment
• Working with PHCTs
• how clinical systems are used
• Clinical data recording methods
• Clinical Terms Concepts
• MIQUEST processing, writing queries
• Analysis and interpretation of data
• Advice on meeting other training needs
• Initial data quality analysis
• Feedback of results

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Proposed Services

• MIQUEST Technical Support
• Maintenance support of
• HQL Editor / Query Manager / Response Manager
• Integrated analysis and display software
• Specialist advice to team and NHS

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Proposed Services

• Comparative Analysis Service
• PCGs select from query sets and report formats on
  a variety of topics
• Developed in line with NSFs etc

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Proposed Services

• Information / outreach
• Proactive information exchange
• To make PCGs aware of procedures and solutions
  re. primary care data and systems adopted by
  others, and the outcomes
• Provided via NHSnet databases, websites,
  newsletters and reports
• Will inform and support all the other service
  elements, and contribute to national initiatives
  to improve data quality and establish
  comprehensive EPRs