Reducing the Burden of Information Provision and Data Collection: A 21st Century Challenge

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Reducing the Burden of Information Provision and
Data CollectionA 21st Century Challenge
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The Information Centre for Health and Social Care
(The IC)

• Special Health Authority
• Created in April 2005 from
• NHS Information Authority
• The Department of Health Statistics Unit
• Based Trevelyan Square/Lisbon House in Leeds
• CEO Professor Denise Lievesley
• 300 staff working in the fields of data
  collection, statistics and information analysis

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Information Provision and Data Collection

• ASCID - adult social care information development
  
• Casemix - develops Healthcare Resource Groups
  (HRGs) to support Payment by Results (PbR)
• Health Informatics - standards in collection,
  management and use. Maintains the Skills for
  Health framework
• HES - details of all admissions to hospitals in
  England via Commissioning data
• Information Governance - the legal and ethical
  use of data
• National Clinical Audit Support Programme -
  audits on major diseases
• National Datasets Service - defining the data
  items, mapping to classifications (ICD-10,
  OPCS-4) clinical terminology (SNOMED-CT) coding
  
• Primary care statistics - statistics on GPs and
  dentists
• Prescribing Support Unit  - data and consultancy
  services on prescribing
• Review of Central Returns (ROCR) - data
  collections coordination
• Statistics Publications - regular statistical
  reports publications
• Secondary Uses Service (SUS) - secondary uses of
  NHS Care Record data

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Datasets Data Standards Sharing
Information of Integrity
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Iterative Development Process
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Dataflows for Secondary Uses Service (SUS)
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• Questions now or later ?
• Monica C M Jones
• Head of NHS National Datasets Service
• The Information Centre for health and social care
  
• monica.jones_at_ic.nhs.uk
• www.ic.nhs.uk