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20 April 2020
In Kent we have developed a strategy for linking patient level data at a level below what has previously been done. Beyond linking administrative data we will accumulate clinical data about patients from each of the care providers in acutes, community, mental health, primary care and ambulance service. You can download an overview of our … Continue reading “Linking data for Research”
20 April 2020
During this chaotic time of trying to create, pool and analyse data we in the analyst community really need to think how we can agree standards, recording and analysing conventions so that we can quickly share our learning within the NHS but also with colleagues in the third sector, academia and industry. The link below … Continue reading “Sharing data on COVID-19 analysis”
14 June 2018
Dr Marc Farr is on the road, busy developing the 2021 Information Strategy for an NHS Hospital Trust and an STP as he goes It’s about that time. I’ve been in the NHS seven years and written two Information strategies. The first one I wrote because I felt so far out of my depth in … Continue reading “Down and Out in Manchester and Liverpool”
14 May 2018
Beautiful Information works to commercialise excellence in informatics, especially in its host and partner organisations. This case study highlights how East Kent Hospitals has used Beautiful Information solutions alongside the Trust’s other reporting systems to deal with the challenge of recording and displaying ‘Red2Green’ data WHAT IT IS The SAFER Initiative was developed by NHS … Continue reading “Innovation in East Kent – SAFER: Red2Green”
10 August 2016
Sometimes people move between the NHS and the private sector [or academia] and vice versa. For those who wish to do it, it is often described as throwing an old mattress over barbed wire fencing to engineer a dramatic escape. Maybe we should just take the fencing down. Kevin Roberts, Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi, … Continue reading “Tearing down the barbed wire fence”
12 July 2016
This week we made it on the list of 50 New Radicals 2016. New Radicals is a search led by Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, and The Observer to find the top people, projects and organisations offering innovative ways to tackle the challenges facing society today. The list compiled from hundreds of entries and nominations, narrowed … Continue reading “New Radicals 2016 accolade putting data into action”
15 April 2016
Croydon Health Services has one of the busiest emergency departments (ED) in south west London. On a performance level we had been struggling to meet the 95 per cent Emergency Access Target for some time. In May 2015 we put in place an emergency care recovery programme with a number of workstreams, one of which … Continue reading “Using dashboards for an emergency care recovery programme”
22 March 2016
How a smartphone app is helping to get near real time A&E information into the hands of the people who need it Summary Using a smartphone app to share near real time information on bed state, or demand at the front door of the hospital, has meant senior management and the executive team are now … Continue reading “Case study – Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust”
23 February 2016
The Big Bang Data Exhibition in London is well worth a visit, not just because it is a good excuse to take your mind off the day-to-day pressures of working in the NHS, but for the insight into what data can do for us now and the predictions about what it might help us do … Continue reading “Florence Nightingale and putting data into action”
12 February 2016
According to one healthcare intelligence firm, the depth of coding was around four codes on average per patient in June 2009, up from an average of three in 2005. Today’s average is around five codes per patient. Depth of coding is an arbitrary measurement, however, and something which is not defined by the NHS Clinical … Continue reading “Depth of coding is not always the answer to improving data quality”