CompStat

Data Collection Type
Additional collated sources of health information-national
Organisation

HSE- Operational Performance and Integration Unit.

Year established

2012

Statement of purpose

The purpose of Compstat is to enable monthly management of hospital performance using a scorecard performance report on a suite of relevant metrics.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

51 public hospitals.

Data collection commenced in 2012 and is ongoing.

Description/Summary

CompStat is a web-enabled performance management and reporting system which operates on a monthly cycle including a monthly performance forum process involving all stakeholders wherein the HSE Regions (Dublin Midlands, Ireland East Hospital Group, RCSI Hospital Group, UL Hospital Group, Children’s Hospital Group, South/South West Hospital Group and Saolta) are the locus of performance control.

The purpose of CompStat is to build around a balanced accountability framework of quality, access and resources and incorporates a scorecard performance report on a suite of relevant metrics.

CompStat focuses on acute hospitals metrics from an inpatient, out-patient and day-case perspective, waiting list data, clinical programme data.

Data users

Hospital Groups, Hospitals, Department of Health, HSE Management and HSE Board.

Data content

CompStat measures are grouped into three areas – Quality, Access and Resources.

Quality focuses on the quality and safety of care provided to the people who access our services.

Access measures the waiting times that people experience for different services.

Resources assesses whether a hospital is making best use of its human and financial resources.

Data dictionary

Not available.

Equity stratifiers

N/A.

Data collection methodology

Data is submitted on a monthly basis from the teaching, regional and general hospitals to the HSE CompStat office. This data collection is supplemented by other primary data sources covering hospital services.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

N/A.

Publication frequency

Monthly.

Accessing data

Information is published in http://www.healthatlasireland.ie each month.

Open data portal access

No.

Email contact
Telephone contact