Open Data Platform (ODP) Enabling Project Update 13 th March 2012

1. Open Data Platform (ODP) Enabling Project Update 13th March 2012

2. Project Summary • Policy Context • Draft Investment Objectives • Enabling Project Deliverables • Procurement Principles • Key Themes from Stakeholder Engagement

3. Context (1) • Information Strategy Themes • NHS Reforms • Focus on quality and outcomes • Respective roles of: • NHS Commissioning Board • Public Health England • NHS Information Centre Transparency Agenda Current Information Provision

4. Context (2) • Information Strategy Themes NHS Reforms • Transparency Agenda • Government ICT Strategy • Open Data Commitments • e.g. Data for Life Sciences • Information Intermediaries Current Information Provision

5. Context (3) • Information Strategy Themes • Future Forum proposals • Electronic capture of records • patient access • re-use for other purposes • information governance NHS Reforms Transparency Agenda Current Information Provision

6. Context (4) • Information Strategy Themes NHS Reforms • Information Provision • SUS / HES • NHS Comparators • MHMDS • Community information (to come) Transparency Agenda

7. Open Data Platform … as the basis for … • Information Strategy Themes NHS Reforms Transparency Agenda Information Provision

8. ODP Supports Secondary Use of Data • ODP’s focus is on the secondary use of data which supports: • Population needs assessment • Risk profiling of populations • Service design and prioritisation • Review of service provision • Contract and financial management • Comparative data for performance management, benchmarking and patient choice

9. Project Organisation:Enablement / Approvals Stage • Sponsorship from NHS Commissioning Board • Project being led by the NHS Information Centre • Involvement and support from NHS Connecting for Health • Seeking input and support (and approval) from Cabinet Office • And involvement from the NHS, suppliers, users ,,,

10. Draft Investment Objectives • To support reporting against the measures in the Outcomes Frameworks • To support current and emerging commissioning and NHS wide performance management information needs • To enable the capture and linkage of person-centred health and care data in pathways across care settings providing information relating to the health care provided to patients and supporting the assessment of the health and wellbeing of local populations. • To facilitate greater transparency and openness by providing open access to secondary uses and comparative data for a wide range of users • To offer a range of core national services and to enable the potential for additional services at a sub-national or local level • To build a platform for a flexible, responsive and scalable system, adaptable to future data and functional requirements • To maintain continuity of essential existing services, both during the transition and as a core component of the new services

11. Users • NHS Information Centre • NHS Commissioning Board • Clinical Commissioning Groups • Commissioning Support Organisations • DH • Health and care providers • Public Health England / Health and well-being Boards • Regulators (e.g. CQC and Monitor) • Researchers (including Pharmacy, biotech's and the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)) • Information Intermediaries • Local Authorities • Public (including media) • Professional bodies (Royal Colleges and BMA) • Health Education England • Audit organisations • NICE

12. Architectural Principles • Separation of components, e.g.: • Data Storage • Common services, e.g. security, data transmission and loading, viewing tools • Applications that transform data into information • Why? • Greater agility and lower cost of implementing change • Supports separation of local from national requirements • Supports contestability and value for money in procurement • Supports flexibility and scalability

13. Procurement Objective To enable a contracts ‘ecosystem’ which: • Facilitates national and local commissioning of services • Manages and reduces cost of build and change • Leverages the market at multiple levels • Enables multiple methods of purchase and transaction • Promotes resilience and the maintenance of multiple options and lines to supply • Promotes ongoing competition and market access

14. ODP Enabling Stage Overview • User engagement • Supplier engagement: • Market testing • Development and appraisal of options • Production of : • outline requirements • procurement strategy • outline business case • other supporting documentation

15. Project Stages Nov 2011 Mid 2012 Mid 2013 Mid 2015

16. Stakeholder Engagement Approach

17. General Themes from User Engagement • Continuing need for collation and distribution service, with improvements in data quality control, processing timeliness and methods of accessing data • Focus on data quality and consistency of data is essential for commissioning purposes • Secondary use of data is changing to encompass risk modelling, LTC management and integrated care teams • Availability of other data-sets such as extended CDS to include more clinical data, Primary Care, Social Care, Community, Mental Health and Workforce data • We must not lose what is already available

18. Critical Success Factors • Improved data quality, validated on entry, is essential • User friendly/good design to support both business and analyst users with access to raw or “canned” outputs as required by business function • Continuity of existing data flows and access • Timeliness of data is becoming more important (clinical response and activity fluctuations), much faster end to end processing necessary. • Flexibility to add services as required or as new requirements emerge • Diversity of suppliers and ability to switch suppliers if not performing

19. National Processing of Data • Perform nationally defined processes nationally (PbR, RTT) and allow the local NHS to focus on truly local issues • Apply standard derivations and processes nationally • Ability to support a user defined algorithm and run adhoc queries (the provision of a user environment) • Benchmarking/comparative outputs from NHS Comparators etc are useful and need to continue • Increase data quality reports, summarise each dataset and provider quality accounts. • National processes applied to data must be transparent and based on an agreed national standards

20. National Management of Data • Clear need for a single data flow as the definitive source of contract data to help avoid local disputes • Ability to run analysis on historic data (i.e. Apply current HRGs on historic data for comparative purposes) • Retention of data must be aligned with national guidance

21. Accessing Data • Need for both routine and irregular extracts of data but also a need for a ‘dynamic’ link to some preselected data so that it is instantly updated when needed • Ability to extract raw data and standard reports dependent on needs of user • Ability to extract data for user-selected organisations is critical to commissioning support organisations • Single view of both timely (records to date) and contractual (snapshots)

22. Linkage of records in different data sets • Existing users want consistent complete national datasets and to perform linkage locally adding in further data. • Linkage of site (ward) and workforce data with activity is important for outcomes analysis • Linked datasets to include social care; workforce; prison; hospices; 999 data; independent sector • Datasets linked to personal demographics service in real-time • Cross-checking and validation between datasets at a national level would be of value