Commissioning Intelligence Self-Assessment Tool (CISAT)

Commissioning Intelligence Self-Assessment Tool (CISAT)
NHS Commissioning Board, July 2012

• Based on the Commissioning Intelligence Model which outlines the intelligence CCGs have identified as critical to their commissioning activities, the NHS Commissioning Board has published the Commissioning Intelligence Self-Assessment Tool (CISAT).
• CISAT has been designed to help CCGs understand how commissioning intelligence can be used to improve outcomes, identify any gaps in current provision, and identify the commissioning intelligence services that they may then wish to procure.

Strategy for information across the NHS

The Power of Information
DH, 21 May 2012

• A ten year strategy for transforming information for the NHS, public health and social care including a commitment to give all patients easy and continuous access to their own health records by 2015.
• See the visual guide 
• The strategy is supported by an online library of good practice case studies,video testimonies and equalities and impact assessments

Information sharing - costs and benefits

Alive and clicking: information that benefits all 
NHS Confederation, 17 May 2012

• An exploration of the potential for using and sharing information in the NHS. It looks at the costs and benefits of informing and communicating with patients through web and social media platforms versus the costs of not doing so effectively.

Commissioning intelligence model

Commissioning intelligence report. 
NHS Commissioning Board,  3 Feb 2012

• Results of a large-scale engagement exercise to understand the information needs of emerging CCGs. The Report presents intelligence requirements in the form of a Commissioning Intelligence Model designed to address these questions:

• How Healthy?
• What is really happening in this system?
• How much?
• How Do We Compare?
• Are My Providers Delivering What They Agreed?
• How could things be better?
• What difference have we made?
• What are our future plans?