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An Information Strategy for PCTs

An Information Strategy for PCTs. Sheila Teasdale PRIMIS Service Director Jenny Powell PRIMIS Learning Consultant. IM&T strategy. Do you have one for: Your Practice? Your PCT? Is it integrated with the LIS? Have you seen the LIS?. Components of an IM&T strategy.

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An Information Strategy for PCTs

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  1. An Information Strategyfor PCTs Sheila Teasdale PRIMIS Service Director Jenny Powell PRIMIS Learning Consultant

  2. IM&T strategy • Do you have one for: • Your Practice? • Your PCT? • Is it integrated with the LIS? • Have you seen the LIS?

  3. Components of an IM&T strategy • Stakeholder agreement • Aims and objectives • Personnel • Resources • Timescales and milestones • Risks and containment • Outcomes (measurable)

  4. Questions • Does/will your strategy have the components in the previous slide? • What emphasis has been put on each of the components? • Who/what is the strategy aimed at? Technology / Teams / Patient Care

  5.  Information requirements for PCTs • Purposes • Patient care • Commissioning • Clinical Governance • NSFs • New GP Contract • NHS Direct and walk-in centres • Out-of-hours care • PCT monitoring needs • National Plan

  6. Information Requirements (1) • PCTs to maintain “disease registers” and demonstrate evidence of monitoring • Patient booking GP appointments online • Patient online access to test results • Linking prescribing to diagnoses • GP registers of patients at risk of heart disease, diabetes, etc. • Referral rates monitored by practices/PCTs

  7. Information Requirements (2) • Extension of nurse prescribing • Mandatory participation of GPs in clinical audit • Closer integration between NHS Direct and GP OOH services • Repeat dispensing schemes nationwide

  8. Achieving your information strategy • Tactics, tools and techniques • having the right clinical computer systems • setting up disease registers • implementing quality of care tools • implementing quality management tools • assessing and fulfilling training needs

  9. Example • Diabetes National Service Framework • having the right clinical computer systems • setting up disease registers • implementing quality of care tools • implementing quality management tools • assessing and fulfilling training needs • Do not reinvent wheels x 304!

  10. Procurement of IT systems • Accreditation and RFA of GP systems • standalone or central server? • Do you need a PCT system as well? • Links with community systems? • or community team uses practice system? • Security features – information governance

  11. Organisational issues • Multi-agency working • Care pathways • Crossing organisational and professional boundaries • Supporting the broader PHCT • Primary Care Trusts – integrating with social care

  12. Take another look!!! • Do you have an information strategy? • Does it have the right components? • Have you established your information requirements? • Do you have adequate IT systems to help you?

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