Title: Operating Framework
1Operating Framework
2Contents
- PART ONE OVERVIEW
- Introduction
- Greater Manchester Governance Structure
- Greater Manchester Overview
- Local Health Community Overview (1)
- Local Health Community Overview (2) Sector
Governance - Local Health Community Overview (3)IMT
Arrangements - Local Health Community Overview (4)Sector
Funding Overview - Local Health Community Overview (5)Planned NPfIT
Sector Revenue Investment - Sector 3-Phase Strategy (1)Overview
- Sector 3-Phase Strategy (2)Options for iCM
Deployment - Sector 3-Phase Strategy (3)Key Barriers to
Achieving Strategy - Data Quality
- Expected Growth in iPM Users
- GPSoC Status
- Current DIP
- Risk Issues Management
- PART TWO ORGANISATION DETAILS
- Bury PCT System Architecture Roadmap,
Commentary and Budget - HMR PCT System Architecture Roadmap,
Commentary and Budget - Oldham PCT System Architecture Roadmap,
Commentary and Budget - Pennine AcuteSystem Architecture Roadmap,
Commentary and Budget - Pennine Care System Architecture Roadmap,
Commentary and Budget - Key Contacts
3Introduction
- This document sets out the context and strategy
for the delivery of NPfIT in the NE Sector of
Greater Manchester. The document has two main
parts - Sector-wide,
- Organisation specific
- plus a number of attachments that provide
backing detail - In the first part the document begins by
describing the Greater Manchester context and the
governance arrangements at that level - It then provides an overview of the sector as an
LHC, sets out the sector governance structure,
summarises the IMT arrangements and the funding
in place to support the deployment of the NPfIT - The sector is working with a three phase
strategy - Common PAS using iPM,
- Deployment of local NPfIT components,
- LHC wide integration
- Phase 1 is complete apart from Pennine Acute
where there are significant scalability issues - Phase 2 centres on the use of iCM to begin the
deployment of clinical functionality in a
step-by-step process, based on co-operation with
the service redefinition priorities of the PCTs
and Pennine Care - The barriers to the delivery of the strategy are
summarised - The approach to data quality is outlined
- A trajectory for user take up is provided as a
guide to the requirements of the sector for
system capacity - The current status of GPSoC is tabulated, showing
the progress already being made with GP2GP, EPS
and GP Summary.
- The proposed DIP for 2007-08 sets out the short
term deployment plans for iCM, Child Health and
MoM. The DIP is subject to confirmation of the
functionality and timing of releases of the
software - The sector operates a comprehensive risks and
issues process, which is summarised - The second part of the document provides road
maps and timelines for each organisation on the
LHC together with individual commentaries on
current readiness and deployment plans - All organisations, apart from Pennine Acute, have
already deployed iPM and are actively preparing
for iCM as a step along the path towards LE3.5 - All PCTs are planning to implement further
components of GPSoC and other GP related systems - Choose and Book is deployed in all PCTs and at
Pennine Acute, which is a major DBS site.
Pennine Care is preparing to deploy Choose and
Book - The road map for Pennine Acute is still under
discussion and the options being considered are
outlined - Key contact names are listed.
4Greater Manchester Governance Structure
Department of Health
CfH
NWSHA
CSC-A and other vendors
PCTs
Acutes
MHTs
GM IT Board
NE Board
NW Board
SE Board
SW Board
FSG
Greater Manchester Instance Board
Sector Programme Directors
Instance Manager
NE Projects
NW Projects
SE Projects
SW Projects
Data Quality Team
Common Projects
5Greater Manchester Overview
- INTRODUCTION
- The Greater Manchester community remains totally
committed to the National Programme for IT and
sees it as a major enabler in the modernisation
of service provision across the conurbation. This
commitment is self-evident given the way it has
coherently planned and embraced the deployment of
systems and associated initiatives. - LORENZO PATIENT ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
- The Lorenzo Patient Administration System (iPM)
has been deployed across all 10 (14 prior to PCT
re-configuration) PCTs, one acute (University
Hospital Of South Manchester NHS Foundation
Trust) and one mental health Trust (Pennine Care
NHS Trust) with over 1,100 concurrent users
accessing the system. These deployments have been
to one single instance enabling the sharing of
over 2.3 million individual patient records
across the Great Manchester community. - The creation of a single instance has required
the establishing of robust management and
governance arrangements and this has been
undertaken through the Sector structure and the
creation of a Greater Manchester Instance Board
which manages upgrades and seeks to balance the
needs of those organisations wishing to join the
instance and those already on it. - A key benefit of the single instance is the
opportunity it provides to establish a
consistent, patientcentred approach to activity
analysis and reporting. This is being
- achieved through the GM-wide implementation of a
set of standard data definitions (initially
focusing on a non-acute setting) which are
facilitating meaningful analysis and reporting - The roll out programme for Lorenzo continues
across Greater Manchester through increasing the
size of the user base, the range of functionality
deployed and the addition of further Trusts to
the instance. - PACS/RIS
- The PACS Programme within Greater Manchester
continues to progress well. All Trusts are on
schedule to deploy by the end of December 2007 in
line with the national target. - Most Trusts within Greater Manchester are also
choosing to implement the LSP RIS. The RIS will
operate on a single instance for Greater
Manchester and again providing the opportunity
for information sharing. Governance and
management arrangements are being established to
ensure that the benefits provided by this
approach are maximised. - EPS
- The introduction of the Electronic Prescribing
Service has seen over a third of all GP Practices
across Greater Manchester achieve a technical go
live for Release 1 with a quarter of all
pharmacies attaining the same status.
6Local Health Community Overview (1)
- Sector Structure
- Greater Manchester NE Sector is a well
established LHC with a track record of cross
organisational cooperation. It continues to work
towards improvements in patient care through
service re-organisation and joint activity to
achieve NHS targets. - It comprises
- Bury PCT
- Heywood, Middleton Rochdale PCT
- Oldham PCT
- plus its main providers
- Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust (coordinating
commissioner is Oldham PCT). The Trust operates
across four major hospital sites. - Pennine Care MH Trust (coordinating commissioner
is Tameside Glossop PCT) - The LHC has, or is negotiating, contracts with a
number of independent sector providers,
including - ATOS Origin, providing diagnostic services
- NetCare - ICATS
- CareUK - ICATS
- Greater Manchester Surgical Centre
-
- The LHC has completed public consultations on the
restructuring of secondary and maternity
services - Commitment to NPfIT Deployment is included in
current contract discussions between the PCTs and
Pennine Acute
- PCTs within the sector are actively undertaking
market testing of its PCT provided services.
They are also undertaking a major LIFT centre
programme aimed at providing modern coordinated
community health care facilities. - Funding Planning
- In common with the rest of Greater Manchester,
the PCTs pool the monies ring fenced for NPfIT.
The pooled monies are then distributed to the
four sectors. In the NE sector the monies are
then further allocated to specific deployment
projects through approved business cases and
against defined protocols. Actual distribution
of monies is against actual spend and any surplus
is returned to the sector pool. - HMR PCT acts as host for the NE Sector NPfIT
programme. - The sector programme office maintains a detailed
sector programme plan and cost model. It
supports deployments through the sector-wide
provision of project management, training,
application support and communications services. - The programme office works closely with sector
and Trust managers charged with the delivery of
the NHS reform programme. - The Sector governance structures are illustrated
on page 7.
7Local Health Community Overview (2) Sector
Governance
Scheduled Care Board
Boards Projects (pre-LE3.5)
Unscheduled Care Board
Trust Boards
NE Sector Programme Board
NE Sector User Group
NIG
FSG
GP Systems and PbC Project Board
Pennine Acute Project Board
Community Project Board
Pennine Care Project Board
GPSoC
iPM
iPM
iPM
GP2GP
Community PACS
iPM (MHA)
Acute PACS
Reporting
GP Summary
CB (MH)
Theatres
Child Health
ETP
iCM (Clinical docs)
iCM (OR internal)
iCM (Clinical docs)
Map of Medicine
iCM (Service Orders)
iCM (Service Orders)
PACS Access
Non-Acute Standards
PbC
8Local Health Community Overview (3)IMT
Arrangements
- Overview
- The following organisations within the sector
each have their own IMT function - Bury PCT
- HMR PCT
- Pennine Acute
- Pennine Care
- Oldham PCT has a joint arrangement with Tameside
Glossop PCT through OTHIS - All PCTs have well established networks. However
the detailed technologies used by the PCTs differ
from one another. - Pennine Acute has a well established IMT
function supporting a single Clinicom PAS over
its four main hospital sites. Departmental
systems are integrated with the PAS. - Pennine Care was formerly supported by Pennine
Acute. Tameside Acute and Stockport Foundation
Trust. It has now implemented its own PAS using
iPM and has built its own IMT function.
- Support Arrangements
- All users refer issues to their local help desk.
For NPfIT issues the local help desk refers the
problem to the sector NPfIT help desk provided by
Pennine Care who, in turn, refer to the Fujitsu
help desk when necessary. Application support is
provided by the sector training and support team
operated by the Sector Programme Office. - Pennine Care is seeking accreditation under the
national help desk scheme. - A formal User Management group is being
established to ensure that organisations within
the NE Sector that use the Greater Manchester
Instance are consulted regarding upgrades to the
instance, including its expansion to new user
organisations. - A user group is being established to provide a
forum for all NPfIT users to discuss and
prioritise issues and ideas for improvement
9Local Health Community Overview (4)Sector
Funding Overview
10Local Health Community Overview (5)Planned NPfIT
Sector Revenue Investment
Summaries of business as usual revenue and
capital budgets for individual organisations
appear within the organisations entries in the
second half of this document
11Sector 3-Phase Strategy (1)Overview
- The sector has a three phase deployment strategy
- Deploy a common PAS solution across all
organisations, using the reference solution iPM - All organisations apart from Pennine Acute, have
now deployed the iPM PAS. - Deploy components of the NPfIT locally in each
organisation, driven by the imperatives of local
service reform and supported by the available
components of the NPfIT - During the two years 2007-2008, the sector plans
to deploy - PACS RIS within Pennine Acute
- iCM Clinical Documents within each of the PCTs
and within Pennine Care - iCM Service Orders within each of the PCTs and
Pennine Care - HSW Child Health
- EPS 2
- Elements of GPSoC including GP2GP, GP Summary
- Map of Medicine
- Combine the local deployments into a sector wide
information sharing environment as more
comprehensive applications become available from
the NPfIT. - From 2009, with the planned availability of
LE3.5, the sector will deploy sector wide
solutions based upon the local solutions and
processes deployed during Phase Two - In the same timeframe GPSoC will evolve towards a
fully hosted solution
12Sector 3-Phase Strategy (2)Options for iCM
Deployment
For PCTs Mental Health iCM Assessments and iCM
OR
Business Case
Process Design
LE2.2 Clinical Documentation and Service Orders
Phase 1
Review Business Case
LE2.2 Clinical Documentation and Service Orders
Phase 2
Upgrade to LE3.5
L3 Planning
Assumes processes created for LE2.2 can be
readily transferred to LE 3.5
For Pennine Acute OR (if adopted)
Business Case
Process Design
LE2.2 OR (Internal)
Review Business Case
LE2.2 or LE3.5 OR LHC
Upgrade to LE3.5
PAT Plan
13Sector 3-Phase Strategy (3)Key Barriers to
Achieving Strategy
- iPM (PAS) performance, especially as perceived by
front line users, has been poor and although
some progress has been made, there is significant
room for improvement. This is affecting user
acceptance and usage volumes - The scalability of the Greater Manchester iPM
instance to cope with increased user numbers in
the community and additional organisations has
yet to be proven. The continued existence of a
single Greater Manchester iPM instance in the
short to medium term cannot be assured - The delay in the deployment of iPM by Pennine
Acute will reduce the benefits of using iCM to
track patients across multiple providers in
revised patient pathways - The lack of timely provision of integrated PACS
outside of Pennine Acute, eg ICATS, IS Diagnostic
providers and primary LIFT centres, will require
interim measures for the sharing of images and
reports, to support the achievement of the 18
week target - In general the specification of NPfIT has not
evolved in line with the NHS Reform Programme and
is often seen as peripheral to the priorities of
senior management - There is a lack of real clinical engagement at
local level - Uncertainties in the provision of integrated GP
systems from EMIS will delay the roll-out of EPS - Lack of details about the functionality and
registration requirements for EPS 2 threaten
achievement of EPS deadlines
- GP system suppliers may not have the capacity to
support EPS, GP2GP and GP Summary simultaneously - Lack of effective liaison at sector, Greater
Manchester and SHA levels with suppliers other
than CSC-A, makes timely issue resolution
difficult - Reluctance of GPs to make full use of Choose and
Book due to consultation time constraints and
system performance issues is hampering the
achievement of the 90 referral target - Adoption of hosted interim Child Health solution
depends on assurances that all current
functionality will be replicated - Lack of an effective reporting solution for PCTs
- Lack of an effective document scanning solution
within NPfIT - Need to develop Lorenzo to support mobile
working, especially pen based data entry, to
support roll-out to community staff - Repeated delays in software releases both
threaten commitment and require trusts to adopt
expensive work arounds.
14Data Quality
- Data Cleansing
- The approach taken in the NE Sector is to ensure
that data cleansing is built in as appropriate to
the cost model, business case and project plan
for each component of the Programme Plan. The
sector considers this is a more effective way of
ensuring that the potential benefits from
deploying NPfIT systems are realised - Initial data quality benchmarking and analysis
has been performed (including local code
utilisation and recode scripting, missing data,
erroneous data and duplicated data) in
preparation for Child Health System migration. - A specialist data quality lead is being recruited
to at sector level to coordinate this work - Adoption of NHS Number
- The implementation of iPM (PAS) by the three PCTs
and Pennine Care included a data cleansing
process that improved the coverage of NHS
numbers - FURTHER DETAILS FOR EACH ORGANISATION APPEAR IN
PART 2
15Expected Growth in iPM Users
Table shows expected growth in user numbers.
Excludes effect of increased usage per user
Table shows expected growth in concurrent user
numbers. Excludes effect of increased usage per
user
16GPSoC Status
17Current DIP
18Risk Issues Management
- General risks issues
- Risks and issues are managed at multiple levels
- Reviewed at project boards, with escalation to
Trust executive management teams if necessary - Risks and issues escalated as required
- Major issues reported to the Sector Programme
Board - Major and pan-Greater Manchester issues reported
to Greater Manchester IT Board - Close liaison with CSC-A is maintained at all
levels, with regular risk and issue review at
project, sector and cross-sector levels. - Deployment and Release Management
- A specific process is in place for the management
of risks and issues connected with deployments
to, or upgrades to, the GM iPM instance - All software releases are rigorously tested by
Greater Manchester - Risk logs are maintained through to resolution
- Release implementation is managed by a deployment
board comprising the sector PDs, CSC and the SHA - The NE Sector is establishing a formal user board
to ensure user organisations have a clear input
into release management decisions.
CSC-A
19Bury PCT System Architecture Roadmap
20Bury PCT (1) Commentary
- GP Infrastructure
- All GP Practices in Bury use the InPS Vision
clinical system. - Practices are linked to the PCT COIN, but
currently all practices work on a stand-alone
basis, with servers in each practice. A remote
management system allows the PCT to provide
on-line support to GPs. - The PC inventory is well maintained on a three
year replacement cycle. - There is no central business continuity
provision. - N3 is implemented across the PCT but there are
bandwidth problems at larger practices. - The PCT has not yet decided to adopt nhs.net
email. - GPSoC
- The PCT is a pilot site for GP2GP. Almost all
practices are now transferring patients
electronically. - The PCT is also a pilot for GP Summary with the
first records to be loaded in June/July 2007
after a full public engagement programme - The PCT would expect to migrate to a hosted GP
system in 2008/09. - The PCT would expect to evolve towards a hosted
InPS system depending upon the outcome of the
GPSoC contract. - Choose and Book
- All practices use integrated Choose and Book
- EPS
- All practices are EPS 1 enabled and pharmacies
are being implemented as they become technically
enabled. - The PCT has expressed an interest in being an
Early Adopter for EPS 2. - PAS and OR
- The iPM PAS has been rolled out to all clinical
services. - An initial implementation of iCM (Clinical
Documents) is planned to commence in Autumn 2007.
Implementation will be on a limited
service-by-service or a pathway-by-pathway basis. - Implementation of iCM (Service Orders) is planned
to take place in parallel with Clinical
Documents. - The initial iCM implementations will be extended
to further services or pathways and will evolve
into LE3.5. - Child Health
- The PCT currently uses HSW Child Health with a
contract until Dec 2008. - Will consider moving to the CSC hosted version
starting in June 2008 provided concerns regarding
functionality are resolved. - Future Requirements from CfH
- Document management system (within Lorenzo and
Corporate requirement). - Dental systems.
21Bury PCT (2)Commentary
- IT Support Arrangements
- The local IMT service supports all PCT services
and the GP practices. - IMT DES
- 32 out of the 33 GP practices signed up to the
DES by February 2007. The remaining GP practice
is expected to sign up shortly. - The PCT has one fully trained PRIMIS facilitator
and three staff who are undertaking training. A
0.5 WTE additional support is being provided by
CfH at present, linked to the GP Summary project. - Work on the DES is progressing well. A baselines
e-audit has been completed by the 32 GP
practices. The majority of practices have good
quality data. 2 practices require significant
work and will be a focus for the data quality
team. - Information Governance (IG)
- IG is integral to the IMT department.
- The PCT has mandated IG training for all staff
and has commenced an IG training programme. - Commissioning Data Sets
- The PCT has migrated from receiving CDS extract
from McKesson to using SUS. - IMT Strategy
- In July 2006, the PCT Board approved a new IMT
Strategy that is now being implemented. - The Bury PCT IMT Strategy, including a work
programme, appears as Attachment D.
- The key strategic themes of the Strategy are
- Creating an Informed Organisation
- Demands for information are increasing
significantly - Need to integrate information across the care
pathway - Need to support decisions from a more robust
information platform. - Being Assertive and Collaborative
- The PCT does not have the critical mass to cover
all IMT elements to the level needed in future - The PCT needs to be clear about its own needs for
IMT services as it works with other NHS and
private sector partners. - Developing the IMT Services
- Customer-focus
- Strengthening Capacity and Skills
- Responding to changing demands.
- The PCTs vision for IMT is shown below
22Bury PCT IMT Budget
23HMR PCT System Architecture Roadmap
24HMR PCT (1)Commentary
- GP Infrastructure
- GP Practices in HMR are split between EMIS (60),
InPS Vision (37) and iSoft (3) - Practices are linked to the PCT COIN,. Most
practises work on a stand-alone basis, with
servers in each practice. 23 of practises take
compliant hosted services from the PCT IT
Department . A remote management system allows
the PCT to provide on-line service support and
service delivery to GPs for infrastructure,
desktop systems and applications, e-mail and
first line response and referral for GP clinical
systems. - The PC Configuration (Inventory) is well managed
on a replacement cycle matrix and will now be
adjusted to comply with guidance in GPSoC.
Positioning against GPSoC is in benchmarking - A robust business continuity provision exists for
those GP systems that are hosted centrally
including offsite backup/retention UPS and
standby generator power supplies. - Those GP systems which stand alone present most
risk in that few actually comply fully with IG
level 0. Work is in progress to make suitable
adjustments to local GP sites to being in
conformity but a balance will also be sought
between the need to comply with IG Level 0
locally and the benefits obtained by adoption of
a hosted stance at Level 3 or 4. - N3 is implemented across the PCT.
- The PCT has not yet decided to adopt nhs.net
email. A study will be committed in June 2007. - GPSoC
- The PCT is currently consolidating adoption of
CB whilst progressing with EPS.
- The PCT will implement GP2GP when version 2 is
available - The PCT will implement GP Summary when it becomes
generally available - The PCT would expect to evolve towards a hosted
system depending upon the outcome of the GPSoC
contract - Choose and Book
- 77 of practices use integrated Choose and Book.
The remaining 23 are subject to negotiations
with the prime supplier (EMIS). - EPS
- All InPS practices are EPS 1 enabled and the
remaining practices and the pharmacies are being
implemented as they become technically enabled - An outcome over EMIS Practises is anticipated
soon - EPS 2 will be rolled out when available
- PAS and OR
- The iPM PAS has been rolled out to all clinical
services. - An initial implementation of iCM (Clinical
Documents) is planned to commence in Autumn 2007.
Implementation will be on a limited
service-by-service or a pathway-by-pathway basis.
Implementation will support service
reorganisation. - Implementation of iCM (Service Orders) is planned
to take place in parallel with Clinical
Documents. - The initial iCM implementations will be extended
to further services or pathways and will evolve
into LE3.5.
25HMR PCT (2)Commentary
- Support Arrangements
- IT services are provided from a centralised team
housed in a purpose built IT centre
geographically situated in the centre of the PCT
Area of Responsibility. - A small specialised call centre, with protected
powered supplies provides Service Level,
incident, configuration and problem management
functions between 8-18hrs using HP Openview
ITIL compliant management software. - Data Cleansing
- HMR PCT has plans to enhance the Information
Departmental functions to include the requirement
for a continuous programme of DQ work are in
development. - A study to introduce a data quality improvement
programme for primary care with an examination of
the viability of re-introducing PRIMIS will be
commissioned during June 2007. Following a
benchmarking exercise This study will inform
future data quality work in the PCT. - Information Governance
- P1 Link agreement to interconnect the PCT network
with the Local Government/Social Services and
Education networks has passed technical trials
and is now in the legal stages of adoption. This
agreement will provide a compliant means for NHS
employees on Non NHS premises and Local Gov/SS
employees in NHS premises to access their
respective clinical systems. - The legacy Information sharing agreement with
local Trusts is still extent but will be reviewed
in the light of current direction of travel and
commissioning pathways by October 2007.
- GPSoC is in the implementation stages and
particular emphasis will be directed towards the
compliance with IG at Levels 1 and 2. - A study of GP systems under GPSoC and local
strategy will determine the need to replace
existing GP Servers or accelerate the migration
towards hosted solutions. It is expected that
80 of GPs will have Hosted Clinical Systems
within the timescales detailed in GPSoC. - Newly appointed Information Assurance/IT Security
Officer is working on heightening IG ratings in
GP practises as part of a detailed and extended
work plan. - Measures to protect clinical systems users from
Malware, Spyware and enhanced anti Virus are
scheduled for implementation by June 2007. - NHS Number
- Following the recruitment of a Database Analyst /
Programmer, the PCT will examine a diversity of
legacy clinical databases in order to plan their
future use. Expected outcomes will be a phased
migration to iPM/iCM for those databases where
function is compatible. A considerable number of
databases will be phased out of service. The
remainder will be assessed on value and utility
to establish interim or legacy status. These
systems will need modification and upgrades to
become compliant with NHS Numbers. When the new
product from the PDS is introduced the PCT will
plan to migrate as part of the GPSoC programme of
work. - Commissioning Data Sets
- HMR PCT expect receipt of Cds V6 from October
2007, generated by Providers. This trajectory is
planned to meet the live date of April 2008.
26HMR PCT IMT Budget
27Oldham PCT System Architecture Roadmap
28Oldham PCT Commentary (1)
- GP Infrastructure
- GP Practices in Oldham are split between EMIS
(74), InPS Vision (13) and iSoft (13) - All practices work on a stand-alone basis, with
servers in each practice. - The PC inventory is well maintained on a three
year replacement cycle. All PCs are GPSoC 2006
standard. - The main patient care computer system used by the
PCT (Community PAS) is hosted by suppliers at a
secure remote data centre. For local systems,
standard Information Security operating
procedures apply. For GP systems disaster
prevention and recovery training has been
delivered to practice staff. Template disaster
recovery plans have been issued. - N3 is implemented across the PCT
- The PCT has adopted nhs.net email as standard and
is rolling this out across the GP community - GPSoC
- The PCT will implement GP2GP when version 2 is
available - The PCT will implement GP Summary when it becomes
generally available - The PCT would expect to evolve towards a hosted
system depending upon the outcome of the GPSoC
contract
- Choose and Book
- All practices use integrated Choose and Book
- EPS
- All InPS practices are EPS I enabled and the
remaining practices and the pharmacies are being
implemented as they become technically enabled. - EPS 2 will be rolled out when available
- PAS and OR
- The iPM PAS has been rolled out to all clinical
services. - An initial implementation of iCM (Clinical
Documents) is planned to commence in Autumn 2007.
Implementation will be on a limited
service-by-service or a pathway-by-pathway basis. - Implementation of iCM (Service Orders) is planned
to take place in parallel with Clinical
Documents. - The initial iCM implementations will be extended
to further services or pathways and will evolve
into LE3.5. - Commissioning Data Sets
- Oldham PCT is capable of handling CDS V5 (XML)
submissions. - There are no plans to adopt V6 as CfH announced
on 29/12/06 that V6 had been withdrawn (DSCN
20/2006).
29Oldham PCT Commentary (2)
- ICATS
- Oldham PCTs has identified there are several key
issues with regards to the information
infrastructure and systems supporting ICATS. The
PCT will require each ICATS to support their
service with an information system that meets the
national data quality requirements in respect of
Information submissions to national datasets such
as HES / CDS / SUS can provide appropriate level
data for the PCTs SLAM system is in line with
CfH and NPfIT requirements and suitably future
proofed to meet the ongoing needs of the PCT and
patients in respect of delivering and
demonstrating the 18 week RTT target. The current
expectation is that any ICATS that can not
provide this level of Information infrastructure
will be supplied a system by the PCT but will be
paid for by the individual service. - In relation to the Mobile Diagnostics Project,
the PCT is committed to ensuring that appropriate
IT infrastructure is implemented to enable the
anticipated benefits to be realised to help meet
the 18 week RTT target, for which OPCT is a
national pilot - Development of Business Intelligence
- The PCT is currently developing, or replacing,
legacy systems where appropriate, as part of its
business intelligence strategy to meet interim
information requirements subject to Connecting
for Health strategic solutions coming on line, or
where it is anticipated that such strategic
solutions will not meet business requirements.
These are being developed to support our
strategic objectives and the NHS modernisation
agenda and are intended to complement those
provided nationally
- Information Governance
- The PCT has a suite of Information Governance
Polices, Procedures and guideline documents.
Included are - Access to Health Records Policy and Procedures
- Information Security and Confidentiality Policy
and Procedures, and supplementary guidelines on
the handling of confidential information - Subject Access Request Policy
- For most electronic systems used by the PCT it is
currently not possible to provide information on
who has accessed a patients data, as the
provision of legitimate relationships is
required to permit this (data changes are
audited, but data viewing is not). For GP
systems, audit trails identify who has accessed
the patient records. - PCT and General Practice staff contracts contain
a specific clause regarding information security
and confidentiality, and note that disciplinary
action will be taken for non-compliance An
awareness session on NHS CRS is under development
for GP staff, and that will cover the Care Record
Guarantee. Those sessions should be available
from June 2008. - Data Quality
- The PCT is developing plans for General Practices
to achieve Data Accreditation (IMT DES) by April
2008. All practices will have conducted
baseline audits and produce action plans for
improvement. Read code/data quality training is
in place for GP staff. - All major electronic care record systems utilise
the NHS number.
30Oldham PCT IMT Budget
31Pennine Acute System Architecture Roadmap
See Page 27 for iPM and iCM options
32Pennine Acute Commentary (1)
- General
- Pennine Acute has, over the past few years,
successfully integrated its systems across its
four constituent sites. As part of that
integration it has implemented a common PAS,
Clinicom. It has implemented common systems for
AE, Maternity and Theatres. It is on the point
of completing the roll-out of a common Pathology
system It has not therefore implemented CSC
emergency bundles in these areas - Pennine Acute does not currently have a fully
automated order communication system. However
GPs can access results for tests they have
ordered - It has developed its own data warehousing and
reporting system - Disaster recovery and service continuity plans
are in place, with the DR contract placed with a
third party provider - It does not have plans to move to nhs.mail.
- Data Quality
- Data cleansing work streams embedded in recent
PAS replacement and planned for RIS / PACS
deployment. Adequate capacity and capability has
and will be made available - Major programme of work in place to reduce /
eliminate duplicate records on PAS - Each critical system has a data quality
improvement plan - IQA Board,strategy and plan in place.
- Programme of work to ensure maximisation of NHS
number on patient master index on existing
Clinicom PAS - HL7 interfaces developed for all major systems to
share a demographic data from PAS including NHS
number - NHS number to be used for all patient
communications outside of the organisation - IMT Strategy
- The Pennine Acute IMT Strategy appears as
Attachment A. - PACS
- Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust is scheduled for a
PACS and RIS deployment between March and
December 2007. The GE PACS at Fairfield Hospital
has been upgraded to the LSP solution in advance
of this deployment - February 2007 22 (Fairfield advance
deployment) - December 2007 100 (subject tobig bang
deployment) - Please note this assessment does not include
digital imaging provision from non LSP source
i.e. at Rochdale provided by Fuji. Approximately
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33Pennine Acute Commentary (2)
- PAS
- The planned migration to iPM has been put on hold
due to a number of significant risks that could
not be mitigated in the timeframe necessary to
complete deployment before the main PACS project.
- The key risk was the need to prove that the
Greater Manchester instance was scaleable to the
degree necessary to accommodate Pennine Acute.
The Trust remains committed to the deployment of
the NPfIT APS but timing remains uncertain. - OR
- The Trust is keen to implement a full
communications system. To this end it is
considering the options for implementing iCM and
iPM. The options are summarised on the next page
and include implementing iCM on top of its
Clinicom PAS. - Theatres and HSDU
- The Trust would also like to consider
implementing a new Theatres system capable of
handling multiple HSDUs. Discussions are due to
start with CSC-A. - CB
- The trusts PAS has been upgraded to full Choose
and Book compatibility and the Trust offers
direct booking for most of its services. It is
in discussion with the LHC to move to completely
paperless referrals this year. - Risks Issues Process
- PAHT has a formal Assurance Framework that
includes a risk and issues register that is
reported to the Board - See Attachment B for full details
- Information Governance
- Patient Information Leaflet given to all
patients which outlines how we use your
information. Contact details of Health Records
and Information Security staff are included. - Information Security Manager in post to
implement arrangements with Caldicott Guardian. - Compliance with IG Toolkit standards indicate
an achievement of Green status for Clinical
Information Assurance, Confidentiality Data
Protection Assurance, Corporate Information
Assurance, Information Governance Management,
Information Security Assurance and Amber
status for Secondary Use Assurance. - The Information Governance policy which
encompasses data sharing is under constant review
and will be significantly revised in 2007 to
ensure compliance with current Legal and DH
regulation. - The Information Governance staff code of
conduct has been updated and will be promoted to
all staff to further raise awareness of data
sharing responsibilities. - Information Sharing Protocols are in place and
being further developed and updated to reflect
organisational and procedural changes. - Whilst the Trust does not share data with the
national spine at this time policy guidelines are
being prepared for staff to respond to requests
from patients who do not wish their dated to be
shared - Policy guidelines are also being prepared to
respond to patients who do not wish their data to
be held on Trust systems
34Pennine Acute IMT Budget
- 2007/8 Capital 7.775m
- 2007/8 Revenue 5.33m
35Pennine AcuteOptions for Deployment of iPM and
iCM
PAS
Clinicom PAS
iPM PAS
Lorenzo LE3.5
PAS
Clinicals
iCM Clinicals
Local OR
LHC OR
PAS
Clinicom PAS
Lorenzo LE3.5
PAS
Clinicals
iCM Clinicals
Local OR
LHC OR
PAS
Clinicom PAS
Lorenzo LE3.5
PAS
Clinicals
36Pennine Care System Architecture Roadmap
37Pennine Care Commentary
- General
- Network and PC infrastructure was upgraded to
cope with iPM - The Trust has a Disaster Recovery Contract in
place with a third party supplier covering all
critical systems. - Pennine Care is an existing user of Health Data
Manager for reporting purposes - The Trust plans to migrate to NHS mail during
2007 - Information Governance
- A copy of Information Governance Toolkit plus
policies that clearly document the Trusts
approach to sharing and managing sensitive data,
is attached as attachment C - Confidentiality Policy
- Access to Health Records Policy
- Records Management Policy
- PAS
- iPM PAS has now been implemented within Pennine
Care and is being rolled-out further to community
based staff - Specific release and extensions, to provide
additional specialist MH functionality, will be
deployed this year.
- Choose and Book
- Pennine Care will implement Choose and Book with
DBS in 2008 when the national process and
requirements for MH are agreed. - iCM Clinical Documentation
- A business case will be produced in Spring 2007
for a limited initial implementation of iCM,
following studies of MH patient pathways - The limited implementation will be reviewed late
in 2007 and further deployments planned. - iCM - OR
- Consideration will be given to the benefits of
implementing OR alongside clinical
documentation. - NHS Number
- The Trust ensures that the NHS number is used in
all template patient communication documents
produced from NCRS. The Trust will update its
Records Management Policy to reflect the need to
ensure all patient communications should include
the NHS number. As an early implementer of the
NCRS the Trust has deployed the PDS
38Pennine Care IMT Budget
39Key Contacts
40Attachments
41Document Controls
- This is a controlled document belonging to the
Greater Manchester NPfIT NORTH EAST SECTOR. The
master version is filed within the programme
library. Only the currently filed master version
is approved. All printed versions are to be
considered out of date as soon as they are
printed.
42For further information or to comment on the
contents of this presentation please contact
Steve Ranger by email using steve.ranger_at_hmrpct
.nhs.uk or by phone on 0161 655 1735.