Revamp for nhs.uk

Making the NHS website better for everyone
NHS Digital 16 August 2018

• Read about the updates to the www.nhs.uk website.

Open Prescribing website

OpenPrescribing.net
EBM DataLab, University of Oxford, 2017

• Anonymised data on drug prescribing by general practices for "for GPs, managers and everyone to explore"
• Data on prescribing by CCG, individual General Practice, and national trends by drug.

NHS Improvement 7 day services webbpage

Seven day services in the NHS
NHS Improvement

• A webpage dedicates to supporting 7 day services across the NHS including
• What does it mean to provide seven day services?
• The 10 clinical standards
• The four priority standards
• What do seven day services mean for patients?
• Related content
• Resources

Best Possible Value - practical tools to support NHS finance

Best Possible Value
Future-Focused Finance programme

• A toolkit for commissioning and providing organisations using a value-based approach
• As part of the Future-Focused Finance programme, this work-stream provides practical tools and resources to support NHS finance business partners and NHS organisations in delivering the Best Possible Value for patients and the public.
• The website provides details of the Best Possible Value process and is also a repository of value-oriented tools, data sources and case studies including a Practice Guidebook which is suitable for commissioning and providing organisations and contains: 
•  a definition and overview of value in health systems, 
•  practical tools and techniques that enable the delivery of value, 
•  links to more value resources and the NHS value community.

Resources to support the Care Act

The Care Act 2014
Think Local Act Personal

• A suite of guidance materials to support those commissioning and providing care and support in implementing the Care Act 2014.
• See also : People not process - Co-production in commissioning - a web-based tool to encourage commissioners to adopt co-production in their approach to market shaping and commissioning across health and social care.

Support for change management

Managing organisational change in adult social care: Support for managers in care services, local authorities and integrated health and social care services
SCIE June 2015

• A resource for managers to build knowledge, skills and confidence around change management.
• It includes case studies from adult social care using the Planned Cycle of Social Care Change (PSCC) as a framework for managing change. 
• Includes a directory of approaches to managing organisational change

MyNHS – Plans for expansion

MyNHS –greater transparency forbetter health and care : MyNHS planning 2015-2017 
DH 11 February 2015

• Outlines current plans for how the information on MyNHS will be expanded and improved between 2015 and 2017.
• Short term plans include 
• CCGs / GPs - introduction of an initial set of indicators for CCGs for five population groups- frail elderly; people with long term conditions; the generally well; children and maternity and mental health (expected May 2015). Subsequent plans are for 15-20 indicators per population group, health promotion and disease prevention indicators, and work towards a combined measure for outcomes and efficiency. 
• (Note - No mention of Friends and Family Test in General Practice.)
• Health & Wellbeing Boards - a new dashboard, taking pre-published data from the PHOF, ASCOF and Clinical Commissioning Groups Outcome Indicator Set will present this information in one place for the first time (expected March 2015).
• Integration - new scorecard covering indicators for: Total non-elective admissions into hospital; Permanent admissions of older people to residential care; Effectiveness of reablement / rehabilitation services; Delayed transfers of care from hospital (expected March 2015).

NHS Performance data available through MyNHS website

MyNHS http://www.nhs.uk/mynhs
19 November 2014

• The MyNHS website http://www.nhs.uk/mynhs was formally launched today by Jeremy Hunt.
• In response to the Francis Report, this new site on NHS Choices allows people can compare the performance of their local NHS hospital, their care services and their local authority with up-to-date information. 
• The site includes data about hospitals, adult social care services, public health services, public health outcomes, mental health hospitals and consultant performance. Data relating to General practice will be available soon.
• Read about the launch here.

myNHS - data collection on NHS CHoices

myNHS www.nhs.uk/mynhs
Data from HSCIC, Public Health Outcomes Framework, NHS England and the Care Quality Commission (CQC), 19 September 2014

• This NHS Choices website will link to existing data that has already been published on patient safety, efficiency, quality, public health, social care commissioning and hospital food standards. 
• MyNHS will be expanded to include data for CCGs, Mental Health Trusts, GP Practices and Clinicians later this year.

Interactive map of HWB priorities across England

Health and Wellbeing Boards priorities across England  - an interactive map
LGA, 4 June 2014

• This map of local authorities (LAs) across England includes links to the health and wellbeing strategy and reports highlighting measures of health and wellbeing and PHE Health profile. for that area.
• In addition by selecting a theme, the map will highlight all areas addressing related priorities.

Working across Leeds - Leeds Institute for Quality Healthcare

Leeds Institute for Quality Healthcare

• Leeds Institute for Quality Healthcare is a partnership between all the NHS Trusts and commissioners in Leeds, the City Council and the University of Leeds. 
• The aims are to secure improvement in quality care by enabling clinicians to develop shared expertise in innovation and improvement, and develop a rigorous approach to professional accountability using data to review variation and decision-making. 

Planning support tools for commissioners

Planning support tools for commissioners
NHS England

• A package of tools to support the mutual development of five year strategic plans by CCGs, Area Teams and local planning partners.
• There is a slide pack for planners  – Support for Strategic and Operational Planning
• Tools include:
• Local Authority Outcome Information Packs 
• Any town health system model 
• Practical support on participation 
• Better Care Fund models 
• Information packs to support the preparation of strategic and operational plans. 
• ‘How-to’ Guide on setting outcome ambitions – Planning for Patients 2014/15 to 2018/19 
• Strategic planning workshops 
• Learning collaborative 
• Thought Leadership discussion papers 
• Planning and Delivering Service Changes for Patients - good practice guidance

Updated LA information packs

Local Authority information packs updated
NHS England 11 February 2014

• Compilations of high-level comparative information on the NHS, the Adult Social Care and the Public Health frameworks for local authorities. The packs provide Health and Wellbeing (HWB) partners with a quick and easy-to-use summary of their current position on outcomes.
• An interactive version of the CCG information is available from CCG Outcomes Tools

New website from LGA - Care and support reform implementation

Care and support reform implementation - new website
LGA, ADASS, DH January 2014

• A new website supported by Local Government Association, Association of Directors and Adult Social Services and Department of Health for CCG leads and others responsible for, or implementing care and support reforms in the context of the other changes and challenges for local health and care systems, including the Better Care Fund.
• Includes an implementation guide, must knows around governance, analysis of the Care Bill clause by clause, an explanation of new IT requirements, and  interactive timeline.

Accountability data on NHS Choices

Health service accountability data now available on NHS Choices

• Performance data relating to GPs, hospitals, local authorities and CCGs is now available through a single page on NHS Choices allowing benchmarking across organisations.
• Data includes Patient experience, Patient safety, Patient outcomes
• Most of the 201 datasets were previously available on the NHS Choices site, apart from 40 indicators about GP practice standards and performance, used by the NHS to assess variation among practices. 

Adult Social Care Outcomes - ambitions, data and definitions

Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework 2014/15 
DH, November 2013, updated August 2014

• This report describes how the ASCOF should be used as a tool to support local improvement in care and support; provides a national commentary on adult social care outcomes in 2012/13; sets out the ASCOF for 2014/15; and outlines a forward look for the framework for future years
• The ASCOF measures how well care and support services achieve the outcomes that matter most to people. It aims to supports councils to improve the quality of care and support services they provide; give a national overview of adult social care outcomes in 2012 to 2013; and looks at how the framework will be developed in future.
• See how the local authorities are achieving these outcomes on the Adult Social Care Outcomes website. This website presents data on outcomes for adult users of local authority funded social
  care and support, including carers, for each local authority area. 
• Benchmark local authority areas against England, region and comparator LAs
• ASCOF handbook of definitions 2014 to 2015 published August 2014

Personal Health Budgets - website

Personal health budgets - a website
NHS England / DH

• This website provides information and news about the Department of Health's personal health budgets policy being rolled out nationally in the NHS; and is home to a learning network for NHS and social care professionals involved in personal health budgets
• Our vision for personal health budgets is to enable people with long term conditions and disabilities to have greater choice, flexibility and control over the health care and support they receive.

HSJ Hospital Transformation hub

HSJ Hospital Transformation website

• "The hub for articles about the improvement journey of English hospitals. Here you will find analysis, trends, best practice, interviews and peer learning that explore challenges, propose solutions and share experiences of success and failure."

QualityWatch - independent scrutiny of quality in health and social care

QualityWatch
Nuffield Trust, Health Foundation

• A research programme from the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation providing independent scrutiny into how the quality of health and social care is changing over time  to both augment and inform the work of other statutory national bodies and initiatives.
• The work will include
• QualityWatch indicators - using a set of nearly 150 indicators we will explore changes in the quality of health and social care over time.
• Focus on’ reports - in-depth analysis of a number of key topics. Reports on Hip fracture and preventable admissions have already been published (Oct 2013).
• QualityWatch advisory group
• QualityWatch inaugural meeting was held on 9 October 2013

CQC Hospital monitoring process

Hospital Intelligent Monitoring
CQC

• Intelligent monitoring looks at 150 different indicators covering a range of information including patient and staff experience and statistical measures of performance giving CQC inspectors a clear picture of the areas of care that need to be followed up within an NHS acute trust and helping CQC to decide when, where and what to inspect.
• See the A-Z of Hospital Intelligent Monitoring reports