The IC Alphabet Alyson Whitmarsh

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The IC Alphabet Alyson Whitmarsh
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The NHS Information Centre

• The NHS Information Centre is a special health
  authority that provides facts-and-figures to help
  the NHS and social care services run effectively.
  We deliver a portfolio of products and services
  that include
• core information to underpin planning,
  benchmarking improvements right across the
  healthcare system
• statistical publications on subjects ranging from
  lifestyle issues such as alcohol obesity to
  workforce figures earnings
• a substantial programme of clinical audits

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The A to Z will demonstrate

• Range of information available
• How collected and from whom
• Range of products and services available
• How collected and from whom
• Web-links

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Ambulance services
A

• Information is collected from individual
  ambulance trusts and shows the volume of activity
  and performance levels against required standards
• Latest data collected from ambulance trusts show
  that over three quarters of emergency calls were
  responded to within 8 minutes
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/audi
  ts-and-performance/ambulance

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Breast Screening
B

• Publication covers data on those invited for
  screening, percentage attending and various
  outcomes
• Data are collected from Primary Care Trusts and
  show that over 1.6 million women were screened in
  2006/07, an increase from 1.1 million ten years
  earlier
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/scre
  ening/breast-cancer

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Contraception data
C

• Data is collected by NHS Trusts on method of
  contraception used
• Around two a half million people use NHS
  specialist community contraception services
  (family planning clinics) each year
• Contraception and sexual health is a survey
  commissioned by the NHS IC and gives an overview
  of contraception used and sexual behaviour
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles/contraception
• www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk69
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Datasets
D

• The primary purpose of National Datasets is to
  enable the same standard of information to be
  generated from care records, independent of the
  organisation or system that captures the data
• Datasets are structured lists of individual data
  items each with a label, definition and set of
  permissible values, codes and classifications
• Datasets already exists for cancer, CHD, diabetes
  and older people. Others are also in development.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/our-services/standards-and-classific
  ations/datasets

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Electronic staff record (ESR)
E

• The ESR is a complete payroll and HR system
  currently being implemented across all NHS
  organisations in England and Wales
• Information relating to vacancies, sickness,
  absence and turnover will all be available
  through ESR warehouse in the future
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/curr
  ent-collections/data-collection/electronic-staff-r
  ecord

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Fruit and veg consumption
F

• Around a quarter of adults and a fifth of
  children eat the recommended 5 portions of fruit
  and veg a day
• Source is the annual Health Survey for England. A
  series of annual household surveys designed to
  measure health and health related behaviours of
  adults and children in England
• Core elements included every year and specific
  topics included in selected years
• 2006 - CVD risk factors
• 2005 older people
• 2004 Ethnic minorities
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles-related-surveys/health-survey-fo
  r-england

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GP earnings
G

• Our GP earnings and expenses report uses
  information from HMRCs tax self-assessment
  database. This provides timely and impartial
  information to directly support GP contract
  negotiations
• Recently started to collect through the ESR
  system for NHS staff earnings
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/work
  force/nhs-staff-earnings

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Hospital Episode Statistics
H

• HES is a data warehouse that contains information
  about hospital admissions in England. The data in
  HES comes from the Secondary Uses Service (SUS),
  which collects data thats passed between
  healthcare providers and commissioners.
• HES contains data about admitted patients and
  outpatients
• 15 million records for admitted patients and 55
  million for outpatients each year
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/hosp
  ital-care/hospital-activity-hospital-episode-stati
  stics--hes

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Immunisation
I

• We collect and publish the number of people who
  are immunised against childhood diseases by their
  first, second and fifth birthday, over 65s
  immunised against influenza and immunisation
  against tuberculosis (BCG) for young babies and
  older people at greatest risk.
• Source of data is the Health Protection Agency
  Centre for infections and the IC itself
• For example, MMR uptake currently 85
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles/immunisation

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Joint replacements
J

• Latest data from HES shows there are over 160,000
  hospital admissions for joint replacements, of
  which around 140,000 admission were among those
  aged 65 and over.

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Knowledge e-bulletin
K

• The NHS IC produces a monthly electronic report
  providing details of new developments and outputs
  IC Knowledge
• Latest outputs, new collections and consultations
  are all highlighted
• www.knowledge.ic.nhs.uk/ebulletins/ic_knowledge/in
  dex07.asp?newsletter_ID8

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Little people

• The National Child Measurement Programme collects
  information about childrens health to inform
  local planning and targeting of resources and to
  enable tracking of local progress against
  Government targets on childhood obesity.
• This national programme involves all children in
  Reception and Year 6 having their height and
  weight recorded. The programme takes place in
  schools every year
• www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-media/latest-news/the-natio
  nal-child-measurement-programme

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Maternity statistics
M

• Ever wanted to know...
• How many women gave birth by caesarean section?
• How many women had an epidural?
• How many women had a 'normal' delivery?
• The annual maternity publication can answer all
  of these questions plus many more, again using
  the HES source. This publication is currently
  being reviewed, consultation document is
  available.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/hosp
  ital-care/maternity
• Infant Feeding Survey. Survey every 5 years of
  feeding practices of mothers during the first 9
  months of their childs life.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles-related-surveys/infant-feeding-s
  urvey

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Mental health
M

• We produce information on patients who have
  either been detained, or who are cared for under
  the Mental Health Act 1983.
• Patients are formally detained in the interests
  of their own health and safety or for the
  protection of others.
• Some patients, not detained, receive compulsory
  care in the community known as guardianship.
• http//www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collectio
  ns/mental-health

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Medical research information service
M

• The Medical Research Information Service provides
  health information to support medical
  researchers.
• This service transferred to the NHS Information
  Centre on 1 April 2008 from the Office for
  National Statistics.
• The service can identify and monitor study
  cohorts, report on the status of study members
  and provide long-term follow up for longitudinal
  studies.
• http//www.ic.nhs.uk/our-services/improving-patien
  t-care/medical-research-information-service

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National clinical audits
N

• We manage a number of audit projects in the
  priority areas of cancer, diabetes, heart
  disease.
• These national audits are designed to measure the
  quality of patient care and improvements over
  time.
• Each audit looks at the care patients are
  receiving and gives clinicians reliable, valid
  information that helps them review their
  performance and identify areas where they can
  make improvements.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/audi
  ts-and-performance/national-clinical-audits

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Omnibus surveys
O

• Omnibus Survey is a flexible, customisable online
  tool designed to help NHS and social care
  organisations submit vital data to The IC with
  minimum burden on themselves.
• With a familiar web based interface and a
  consistent entry format it is easy for
  respondents to use, resulting in better
  participation with fewer errors.
• Examples of omnibus collections include
• Stop Smoking Services
• Ambulance performance
• Childhood immunisation
• Family planning
• www.ic.nhs.uk/our-services/improving-data-collecti
  on-and-use/omnibus-survey

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Prescribing Support
P

• The unit hosts and manages the national
  prescribing information database which provides
  details of the number of items and costs of all
  prescriptions dispensed in the community.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/our-services/improving-patient-care/
  prescribing-support-psu

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Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
Q

• QOF is a voluntary annual reward incentive
  programme for all GP surgeries in England
• QOF contains four main components or domains
  (clinical e.g. hypertension, organisational e.g.
  patient info, patient care experience and
  additional services e.g. child health
  surveillance). Each domain consists of a set of
  measures of achievement, against which practices
  score points according to their level of
  achievement.
• Through the QOF, general practices are rewarded
  financially for aspects of the quality of care
  they provide.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/audi
  ts-and-performance/the-quality-and-outcomes-framew
  ork-qof

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Review of Central Returns (ROCR)
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• The ROCR process supports the Department of
  Health and it's Arms Length Bodies in reducing
  the burden of data collections from the NHS. This
  ensures that
• collections fit with national health policies in
  England
• requests for the same information are not
  repeated
• NHS organisations can complete these in as little
  time as possible.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/our-services/improving-data-collecti
  on-and-use/the-review-of-central-returns-rocr

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Social Care
S

• The IC produces a range of information that
  demonstrates how social care is delivered
• Information available cover care provided for
  adults, children and those with disabilities
• Whether you want to monitor the uptake of direct
  payments, know what money is being spent on
  services or how services for older people are
  delivered, you can find a wealth of data and
  analysis
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/soci
  al-care

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Teeth
T

• Would you like to know how many NHS dentists
  there are?
• Or, what courses of treatment have been carried
  out by dentists?
• Even, how much dentists earn?
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/prim
  ary-care/dentistry

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User surveys
U

• Possibly the most important measure of social
  care is what the service users themselves think
  of the care they have been given.
• Each year The IC carries out user surveys to get
  feedback from different groups of service users.
  Information for the surveys is gathered by
  councils with social services responsibility.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/soci
  al-care/user-surveys

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Varenicline
v

• Among the smoking cessation aids used in NHS Stop
  Smoking Services, Varenicline is now the most
  successful in helping people quit.
• The NHS IC produces quarterly reports on
  performance of the NHS Stop Smoking Services
  including information on how many people try to
  quit how many are successful.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles/nhs-stop-smoking-services

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Workforce statistics
W

• The NHS workforce in England has grown by 30
  over the past decade. More than 1.3 million were
  employed in 2005, compared with one million in
  1995, making the workforce figure the highest
  ever.
• The ICs statistics can tell you which groups of
  the workforce have seen the largest and smallest
  increases.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/work
  force

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X-rays
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• There are over 14,500 radiographers in the NHS
  dealing with diagnostic and therapeutic x-rays,
  reported in our non-medical workforce census
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/curr
  ent-collections/data-collection/gmp-workforce-data
  

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Young People and drug misuse
Y

• As well as producing our own Drugs Misuse
  publication, we also commission the Drug Use,
  Smoking and Drinking among Young People in
  England survey, which is used to help measure the
  governments target of reducing the use of Class
  A drugs among young people.
• www.ic.nhs.uk/statistics-and-data-collections/heal
  th-and-lifestyles-related-surveys/smoking-drinking
  -and-drug-use-among-young-people-in-england

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The A to Z has (hopefully) demonstrated

• Range of information available
• How collected and from whom
• Range of products and services available
• Fascinating facts
• Provided web links for further information

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