Sources of data
NHS Comparators
NHS Comparators has been much developed in the last year, and sites were impressed with the information it provided, which helped provide basic benchmarking and comparison for primary care.
For a general view of data, NHS Comparators can provide suitable information for many areas. The site provides total admissions data on a quarterly or annual basis, from SHA to Practice level. The site includes functionality to plot data on charts and maps. Data can also be exported for local use in excel.
Example of NHS Comparators mapping:
The NHS Comparators tool is free to access, and is not limited to NHS staff. There is a set of COPD measures, which includes:
- total admissions for COPD
- emergency and planned admissions
- reported prevalence compared to predicted prevalence
The Department of Health in conjunction with the ERPHO and National Programme Budgeting team have produced a respiratory health information pack for each SHA area. These packs cover a variety of indicators, that highlight the difference in expected prevalence, diagnosis, admissions, spend and outcome across all SHAs nationally. These can be downloaded for your SHA area from the NHS Networks site
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