Facilitator Handbook 2005 - PRIMIS

PRIMIS Facilitator Handbook
Quality Data, Quality Outcomes
The Training
The training takes place over a full day and is run on an individual scheme basis covering the
following topics:
• why data quality is important
• how data quality is defined
• the baseline essential elements of a patient record and how they are created
• the importance of capturing data from home visits and other locations outside of
the GP surgery
• mapping data flows from secondary care into a practice to eventual entry onto the
clinical system
• the differences and similarities between the NSFs, National Institute for Clinical
Excellence (NICE) guidelines and Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)
indicators and the essential data recording requirements for each
• practical knowledge of clinical coding structures
• problems faced by many practices with consistency in methods of data capture and
entry between all practice staff
• methods of entering and capturing data onto a clinical system
• how to raise the issue of data quality and help practices to address any problems
and share best practice.
Learning Objectives
The training will provide information facilitators with:
• an awareness of what is meant by the patient’s story and their contact with the
healthcare professionals in a GP practice, including what data recording is required
at each step
• an awareness of the importance of data quality and its relevance to recording
issues pertaining to the patient’s story
• an understanding of the necessity to identify all relevant information coming into
the practice
• an awareness of what is required to collect all the relevant information in the
correct format
• an awareness of the range of options for storing the data
• an understanding of the knowledge required to retrieve the data in an accurate
format
• knowledge and understanding of data quality theory and its application to the
patient’s story
• an understanding of future issues that may affect primary care data.
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