Test Project

This project is a test for the Information programme. Its purpose is to extract MH-SMART data from six DHBs and analyse this with respect to quality, with a view to developing a national data monitoring plan.

The background

All DHBs have been collecting HoNOS data in varying capacities since 1 July 2005 and have different levels of outcomes information available to them. This project aims to develop a picture of what the quality of that data is like. Data will be collected from six participating DHBs, analysed and fed back to the boards through a set of standard reports.

The project will use the analysis to develop and implement a national data quality monitoring framework across all services. The framework should improve the quality of data that is eventually collected into the national integrated data set (PRIMHD - Project for the Integration of Mental Health Data), when this is developed.

However, as PRIMHD is still some time off, this project offers a great interim opportunity to provide clinicians, team leaders and service managers with detailed and useful reports about the outcomes information that has been collected to date by their DHB.

Project update

Information analyst Sandra Baxendine started working for Te Pou on 25 February 2008 and began familiarising herself with the Test Data Set.

DHBs have received feedback from data submitted in late 2007 and have been asked to submit a further extract for analysis which will include all data from 1 July 2005 to the end of the first quarter of 2008. The final phase of analysis of the Test Project includes casemix grouper development which can be found under the Casemix Grouper update page.

Project manager

Alison Bower, Systems Consultant

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Page last updated: 11 June 2008