CENTRAL MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST: As a large specialist organisation providing complex care to patients from a broad range of demographic backgrounds the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) striv

Data-sharing agreement from NHS Digital registers of approved data releases, 2014–2019. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation: CENTRAL MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Source reference: DARS-NIC-376374-F8D0M-v2.6
Jurisdiction: England
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0, subject to NHS England terms and exclusions

Register reference: DARS-NIC-376374-F8D0M-v2.6
Agreement period: not published to no end date published
For commercial purposes (as marked in the register): Not stated
Release files listed by NHS England: 8

Data approved

Hospital Episode Statistics Critical Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care
Hospital Episode Statistics Accident and Emergency
Hospital Episode Statistics Outpatients

Objective, as published

As a large specialist organisation providing complex care to patients from a broad range of demographic backgrounds the Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) strives to provide the best care possible for its patients. This entails understanding the complex co-morbidities of its patient population, through which it aims to establish a patient co-morbidity index for the Greater Manchester area. This data will be used for two projects of analytical work: Firstly, benchmarking the Trust against other Trusts to guide their clinical coding improvement strategy. The Business Analyst team will have direct access to HES data to create bespoke, specialty and Health Resource Group (HRG) specific reports. These reports, in their aggregate format, will be shared with other staff at the Trust. They will not be identifiable and small numbers will be suppressed in line with the HES analysis guide. Secondly, the HES data will be used to inform the Trust’s strategic development plans. The information will be analysed to determine areas (geographical by residence, GP practice, CCG etc.) where service provision could be enhanced (e.g. outreach or community clinics). This information will also be used to determine growing/declining service needs of the regional population. The full HES data set is required for this application. This is to allow for analysis across England, as the Trust is a national tertiary centre with national tertiary patient services. The Trust compares itse…

Expected benefits, as published

Improving the Trust’s clinical coding develops the accuracy, precision and detail afforded in those policies for the population they serve. The Trust will use clinical coding information to determine disease prevalence rates so as to inform national and local commissioning policy. Any proposed process or service changes are discussed with the Trust's commissioners through established contracting channels (annual contract negotiation process). Any findings derived from the use of the data is shared with commissioners (in aggregated form and small numbers suppressed in line with HES Analysis Guide) to support service changes and local discussions. An example of this would be in Rheumatology, where it was identified that the Trust was not coding a series of comorbidities due to the nursing n…

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