Analytics Dashboards: Providing insight through data

We know, in line with the NHS Data Saves Lives Strategy, that all parts of the NHS need to be making data driven decisions.

Over the last 12 months, we have worked alongside Preston Park Community and Deans and Central Primary Care Networks (PCNs), the Diabetes Care 4 You Service, the Brighton and Hove Wellbeing Service and Sussex MSK Partnership East to answer the questions that matter to them, through their own data.

Our approach has been to support the people working within the service to understand the questions that, if answered, would help them deliver more effective, personalised care for the people in their communities.

Joined-up Data With PCN Analytics

In 2023, we won the Health Tech News Excellence in Healthcare Data Transformation award for our PCN Analytics work in partnership with the Preston Park Community PCN (PPC PCN).

PPC PCN recognised a need to increase its workforce capacity. There were some challenges, like working across multiple practices, different clinical systems and different ways of recording data – which provided the opportunity to understand variation and how best to focus resources.

We focused on developing distinct online dashboards – Care Home, First Contact Practitioners (FCPs), Pharmacists, and Investment and Impact Fund Indicators. The online dashboards extract data from the GP practice systems: EMIS (using Emis X Analytics) and SystmOne. The data includes appointment utilisation, service provision and referral sources for additional roles. We also mapped patient data to care homes in the PCN to support work around frailty; identifying vulnerable people within the system.