Suppliers Forum Dave Roberts – Programme Head non-acute care

1. Suppliers Forum Dave Roberts – Programme Head non-acute care

2. Content • Mental Health and Community Care programme • Update on prescribing issues • Social Care development programme • General Practice Extraction Service (GPES)

3. Work of Mental Health and Community Care team • To support data collection and extract in providers of mental health or community care services • To be first point of contact for queries on mental health and community care • To support Commissioners in their use of relevant data sets • To work with relevant government departments to ensure that information repercussions of policy initiatives are understood and communicated to the providers of NHS funded care • To work with anyone with an interest in the collection or analysis of mental health or community care data

4. Current position on Mental Health • Producing the MHMDS through the Secondary Uses Service: • Will commence in 2009 • Data fed back to providers and commissioners • Extracts and reports • Publication date, including all historic data, on 29th October. Please log onto the NHS IC website for details.

5. Other initiatives • Review of all Mental Health information – April to September 2008 (via website) • Independent sector submissions to support standard contract • Mental Capacity Act • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies • Mental Health Act changes • Care Programme Approach changes • Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey • Home Office review of Criminality Information • Clinical Dashboards for Mental Health • Quality Indicators for Mental Health • Mental Health indicators in NHS Comparators

6. Community Care • Project to review current position to complete end of September • Lack of data a significant problem • Links to Department of Health projects on Community Care • (Possible funding for dataset developments in CSR)

7. Primary Care Prescribing Data • Most common NHS intervention- last year: • 780 billion items dispensed in 2007/08 • Cost over £8b • Position for 07/08: • 1% growth in cost over 06/07 • 6% growth in items over 06/07

8. National top 5 BNF sections by cost, April – June 2008 % growth: growth over the same period last year

9. Practice level prescribing data • Currently provided, via PPD (NHSBSA) • To NHS via password protection • Both raw and contextualised • Soon: NHS comparators (6 clinical areas) • - Practice items monthly on PPD website • Other practice level data from IC • QOF available on web site (2007/08 published on the 30th September) • HES via controlled access

10. Review and consultation • We have conducted a review, with the BSA and the DH of the current situation concerning the release of prescribing data • We have produced a data sharing agreement that covers all three organisations • We ran a public consultation June to August 08 on two proposals: • Publication of ‘raw’ PCT level prescribing data • Supply of ‘raw’ practice level data for specific NHS purposesthrough an appropriate approval process and strict re-use policy

11. Consultation – PCT level data • This proposal was generally supported: • Publication of ‘raw’ quarterly PCT level prescribing data at BNF chapter and section level on IC website • This can be implemented soon • Supply of PCT data on request • Further discussion required on release of lower level data and for supply outside the NHS, around re-use and dissemination • For discussion with IC and NHSBSA

12. Consultation – practice level data • In general, commercial companies would like to see release of this data and NHS organisations feel it is not appropriate to release data outside the NHS • We are NOT recommending public release of practice level prescribing data: • Data Protection Act, Exemptions from FOI Act and DH Policy, etc • Release of practice level data for specific NHS purposes • Requires Review Board for criteria & approval • Clear purpose and benefit to NHS required • Sensitive clinical areas • Information Governance issues

13. Improving and developing social care • Review of The NHS Information Centre’s national social care Collections and Publications • Development of a social care National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service (NASCIS) • Integrated services for older people • Strategic Planning report

14. Review of collections and publications • The new National Indicator Set (NIS) replaces all previously required local government performance indicators/targets from 1st April 2008 (major part of ‘reducing the burden’) • All twelve of the current IC collections (and publications) initially reviewed, line by line. • A review identified: • - data items which relate to NIS and must be retained • - data items which are of particular benefit for local policy and practice implementation and review, but which have added value if collected and collated nationally • - data items which are now outmoded or of questionable accuracy and should no longer be collected • Final phase of consultation on these proposals will end 24 Oct 2008 • Exclusions to final consultation – expenditure, disability registers, user surveys • Next steps – IC report on outcome of consultation by mid Nov NB. The IC will collect (and publish) 2007/08 returns during 2008/09.

15. Development of a social care National Adult Social Care Intelligence Service (NASCIS) • Work to date: • Developed the understanding and vision of NASCIS with key national stakeholders • Quicker access to data by early publication in Oct 2008 of provisional council level activity and expenditure data • Developed proposals to improve dissemination of existing social care information and intelligence • Developing a prototype service for NASCIS with existing data by end of Feb 2009 • Recruited additional resources to take forward NASCIS work

16. Integrated services for older people • Objectives are to produce: • An integrated health and social care publication presenting information on older people • A wider toolkit, encompassing a range of information products • Work to date: • Internal report on Falls including case studies to clarify cost of falls and ways information is used in the local health economy • Analysis of data existing within IC on falls and identified gaps • Development of local indicators on dementia • Next steps: • Publish Older People’s publication on falls • Develop similar publications in other areas like dementia and intermediate care

17. Strategic Planning report • Produced a report proposing the strategic direction of the NHS IC’s social care work in light of current developments in social care information needs and possibilities – endorsed by IC board • Proposals agreed: • Support from IC board and key stakeholders to undertake further work to develop NASCIS • Agreement on proposals arising from review of collections • Further development work on existing and new National Indicators • Assist in development of effective equalities information • Continue to play an appropriate part in the creation of a national system for electronic social care records • Next steps: • Working with DH to develop information strategy for adult social care • Responding to social care issues identified in DH Informatics Review

18. What? Total scope of service(Authority and Contractor) GPES scope Customers All GP Practice systems Extraction Query Analysis Data management

19. General Practice Extraction Service (GPES) • Gateway review successfully completed. Significant support received • Project Assurance Group – documentation reviewed, recommendations submitted and amendments made • 10th September, final approval of all documentation from the Project Board • Final high level requirements gathering exercise completed today.16 customers interviewed in total • NHS IC GPES team significantly expanded to meet increasing demands of the service

20. GPES continued • Stakeholder engagement initiated: • Series of information sharing events and the first Communications Group meeting completed in September • speeches at conferences/meetings (PRIMIS+, British Computer Society, Primary Care Consortium, Pan User Group) • press and media coverage (e-health insider; Pulse; HSJ and Primary Care Today) • Key stakeholders being consulted re: communication requirements

21. Procurement strategy

22. Further information • www.ic.nhs.uk/gpes • Enquiries: • enquiries@ic.nhs.uk quoting GPES