National Programme for Information Technology
The Secondary Uses Service
Jeremy Thorp
Director of Business Requirements Technology Office
Objectives of SUSImprove access to data to support the business requirements of the NHS and its stakeholders
Provide a range of software tools and functionality which enable users to analyse report and present this data
Be the single, authoritative and comprehensive source of high quality data to
- enable linkage of data across all care settings
- ensure the consistent derivation of data items and construction of indicators for analysis
- improve the timeliness of data for analysis purposes
Provide a secure environment which enables patient confidentiality to be maintained according to national standards
What it does
• SUS acts as the central data hub for the NHS• Fed by a range of standard / official data flows
generated by local and national operational processes
• Provides centralised validation and cleaning functions
• One version of the “truth” for use in multiple down-stream business processes e.g. Payment by Results and Practice Based Commissioning
Data Sources Data Management Presentation
• datamarts will be
provided to enable users
to access tailored views
of information which will
already have been pre -
processed – these may
be logical or physical
• information provided
to users will be
pseudonymised
according to processes
and guidelines to be
agreed
• in addition to storage
of submitted data, there
will also be storage of a
number of “derived”
fields, e.g. age, ward
code
• all data will be held in
a “secure database”, but
no users will have direct
access to this database
• initially, SUS will be fed
by specific datasets
although it is intended that
SUS will be populated by
operational event
messages
• validation of data will be
performed before loading
into SUS to ensure, as far
as possible, good quality
data is received
• data changes will only
be made at source and not
in the data warehouse
Design Principles
Rich Content
• Patient - demographics• Admissions• Discharges• Episodes and Spells• Clinical• Health Resource Groups
• Organisation• Geographical• Practitioner• Augmented/critical care• Maternity
• 16+ Terabytes of data in SUS
• > £30 billion of PbR transactions processed
• 700+ million Activity records submitted to SUS
• Over 1 million records entering SUS each day
• Over 90,000 managed service extract reports produced from SUS
• Over 12,000 user-defined extracts produced
• Over 1500 users registered
• Currently over 320 organisations submitting data
Some Statistics
Who can access SUS data and SUS applications?
• Directly
• NHS organisations via the Spine portal• In-directly
• Non-NHS organisations via the proposed SUS Extract Service
Current Developments
• Release 1 for PBR 07/08 and data for PBC comparators (April 2007) – completed
• NHS Comparator data (April and September) – completed
• Release 2 giving non-functional upgrade to Oracle 10g and uplift for more users – completed
• Release 3L providing “landing” capability for cds v6, plus loads from PDS and Choose and Book – December 07
• Release 3R providing processing and reporting for 18 weeks and further reporting for CAB and PDS – April 08
• Further developments of• 18 week waits
• Payment by results
• Commissioning
• Demographics, e.g cohort management
• Research and Development
• Public Health
• Reporting work with Local Service Providers
Future Directions
NHS comparators
NHS comparators
• Future releases planned in January and April 2008 to cover
• 18 week reporting• Further comparators for practice-based
commissioning
For Further Information
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/sus
Contact [email protected]
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