The Adult Social Care Statistics team at NHS Digital are currently
seeking to recruit a number of secondees from local authorities. The
aim is to draw on their experience of working with a range of adult
social care data, to improve our understanding of the uses and flows
of data within the sector.
The purpose of these roles will be to:
provide expert guidance and insight about the...
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Masters students at Leeds University Business School are conducting a project to investigate the SALT (Short term and Long term Support) and ASC-FR (Adult Social Care Financial Return) data collection in Adult Social Care. The purpose of this survey is to understand local authorities' experience in using SALT and ASC-FR guidance to collate and submit their data return.
This survey has 14...
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Both the Making Safeguarding Personal Outcomes Project Final Report, which describes the work done between November 2017 and April 2018, and the Outcomes Framework are now available will be used to drive the next phase of this work during 2018/19. If you would like to get involved in the implementation and development of the next phase of the MSP outcomes framework, please contact Pritpal...
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As the monthly situation report on delayed transfers has moved to NHS Digital’s Strategic Data Collection Service platform, local authorities (LAs) will more easily be able to access data pre-publication, as it does not require an NHS.net connection. This should aid earlier validation of the submitted data and, hopefully, reduce disputes.
If your local authority requires access to the NHS...
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Delayed transfers of care, sometimes inaccurately referred to as ‘bed-blocking’, occur when a patient is ready to leave hospital but is still occupying a hospital bed. The LGA is continuing to work with councils and the sector to identify the challenges and barriers and work towards positive solutions that maintain a focus on the people that use the services.
This set of Frequently...
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A workspace to facilitate the sharing of tools, documents and useful resources related to measurement for improvement.
Samantha Riley, Head of Improvement Analytics at NHS Improvement has established a virtual group designed to bring together people from various fields who have an interest in measurement for improvement and Statistical Process Control (SPC). The intention is to support...
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NHS Digital (previously HSCIC) provides national information, data and IT systems for health and care services. It is currently working on a project to make access to statistical publications and clinical indicators easier. If you have an interest in using health and care data and are interested in supporting this work by helping to test a prototype for the service, please contact User...
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Adult social care outcomes framework - interactive comparison tools for local authorities
This interactive report produced by NHS Digital enables local authorities to view their 2015-16 data alongside England, regional and council type averages. The Peer Group sheet also enables comparison alongside 15 comparable councils. It is built on the CSV file which can be found with the ASCOF...
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Talking data like a pro: A plain English guide to data analytics
Like any area of tech (or any specialised discipline for that matter), data analytics is rife with jargon. This makes it more difficult or even intimidating for non-specialists to approach the topic. NESTA have developed a short 'jargon buster' on 15 essential terms and concepts to aid your understanding and discussions...
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A new report from the Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University highlights how taking a performance management approach can help councils deliver outcomes and better manage demand in adult social care.
The paper, co-authored by Visiting Professor John Bolton and IPC Assistant Director Philip Provenzano, provides a helpful model for measuring service delivery and...
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NHS Digital have published this interactive web-based summary report to give users a high level summary of a selected local authority’s activity in 2015/16 across the range of adult social care collections, compared against both the LA’s peer group and England as a whole. The purpose is to bring adult social care information together into one location and in a more user-friendly...
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A single council view of the latest delayed transfers of care monthly data is available in a local authority (LA) level report in LG Inform. More detailed analysis at both Trust and LA level is available through a set of Excel tools - Delayed transfers of care (DTOC) tool (Excel tool – detailed interrogation of monthly data), along with a further version of this file focusing on the...
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NHS digital have produced local authority level comparator data for DoLS for the first time
The official statistics report published in September 2016 provides the findings from the Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) data collection for the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016. It includes any application that was active during the reporting year....
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Increasing numbers of people are living to very old ages (90 and over). This has led to growing interest in obtaining accurate estimates of population numbers and mortality rates by single year of age at these ages. In England and Wales there were estimated to be 556,270 people aged 90 and over in 2015 (0.9% of the total population). This compares with 222,820 (0.4% of the total population) in...
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Additional training webinars being hosted on the 2nd December
The Adult Social Care and Carers surveys collect robust data on the outcomes of individuals in receipt of social-care services and support. The government encourages local authorities to use this data to inform local performance improvement activities but recent evidence collected during the MAX project indicates that many...
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A new dementia atlas, published by the government, shows NHS care for the condition across England. The atlas maps five themes of care - prevention, diagnosis, support, living with dementia and end of life care - using benchmarks for each. For example, every person living with dementia should have an annual check-up to review their care needs.
Regional variation in population density and age...
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Article by Roger Taylor published by the Guardian Healthcare Network
Without data sharing we are either blind to the impact of social institutions or we give those who run them control over the public narrative of their benefits.
Care.data, the NHS plan to create a national dataset of patient information that could be shared with researchers, has officially been brought to a close. The...
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The Department of Health’s Transparency Team would like to invite you to a Workshop on Intelligent Transparency in Health and Social Care. This event will be held in two locations:
· London: Thursday 21st July, 14:00-15:30 at Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS.
· ...
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New trading name and new Chair for HSCIC
Two developments about HSCIC's future were announced by Life Sciences Minister George Freeman at the recent National Information Board Leadership Summit in London. He confirmed the organisation is to trade under the name of NHS Digital and use the descriptive strapline "Information and technology for better health and care." As it moves into the next...
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