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20 October 2020
Cancer and Emergency Department Patient Tracking Lists (PTLs) have just gone live at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust. Beautiful Information have been working closely with staff at the trust to develop PTLs that give them what they need to support high-quality and efficient patient care. The Cancer PTL takes data from the Trust’s … Continue reading “Ashford & St Peter’s Patient Tracking Lists go live”
13 October 2020
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and along with our colleagues from the Open Data Institute in Leeds, we have been running regular COVID-19 webinars in an attempt to get more data available and used by analysts. We’ve made some fantastic progress. For our next session on Thursday 5 November 2020, 11am – 12pm, we have three … Continue reading “#OpenDataSavesLives webinar: 5 November 2020 @ 11am”
8 October 2020
Leaders from the Analytical Professions have jointly written a letter to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and Sir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the NHS. As we have learned on Monday, 5th October more than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers after 15,841 positive tests … Continue reading “Covid-19 Data Collection Crisis – Independent Review Requested by the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts (AphA)”
22 July 2020
Data have been widely hailed as ‘the raw material of the 21st century’¹ and ‘better use of data’ is a central feature of the NHS Long Term Plan.² Yet, data alone does not produce insights. To capitalise on opportunities to improve health and care, we need the data and outstanding data analysis. However, policymakers and … Continue reading “Bringing NHS data analysis into the 21st century”
8 June 2020
This month we have started work on developing the new Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance Patient Tracking List (PTL) which will be a centralised tracking list of patients for the whole of Kent and Medway, to monitor them throughout their cancer treatment pathway. Staff will be able to see where a patient is on their … Continue reading “KENT AND MEDWAY CANCER ALLIANCE PATIENT TRACKING LIST (PTL) UPDATE”
8 June 2020
We are delighted to see the initial launch of the North Manchester Diabetes Centre dashboard which has been done in partnership with the University of Salford. This has been built against a backdrop of a rising number of ulcers and amputations for diabetes patients. In February, Diabetes UK reported that over 9000 amputations a year … Continue reading “Diabetes dashboard for Manchester launches”
4 June 2020
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27 April 2020
On Thursday 26 March 2020, the Open Data Institute Leeds, Beautiful Information and NHS Digital joined forces to host the inaugural Open Data Saves Lives hackathon in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The #OpenDataSavesLives COVID-19 response has now been active for 5 weeks, with a 6th online session scheduled for 30 April. The response to the project has … Continue reading “#OpenDataSavesLives COVID-19 response update”
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”