HSE Performance Reports — Acute Hospitals including Clinical Programmes, National Ambulance Service and National Cancer Control Programme

Data Collection Type
National Performance and activity reports
Organisation

HSE – Operational Performance and Integration Unit.

Year established

2006

Statement of purpose

To monitor hospital activity. Collection of data assists in performance improvement and is an integral part of monitoring activity in the service planning process.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

All acute hospitals.

Data collection commenced in 2006 and is ongoing.

Description/Summary

The Operational Performance and Integration Unit collates the HSE’s Performance Reports (PR), which provide an overall analysis of key performance data from Finance, HR, Hospital and Primary and Community Services. The activity data reported is based on Performance Activity and Key Performance Indicators outlined in the National Service Plan 2022.

The performance report is overseen by the National Planning Oversight Group (NPOG), led by the Chief Operating Officer on behalf of Director General to monitor performance against planned activity, as outlined in the National Service Plan, and to highlight areas for improvement. A Management Data Report is also produced each month which provides more detailed data on the metrics covered in the Performance Report.

The HSE have agreed a number of metrics/indicators for acute hospitals including Clinical Programmes, National Ambulance Service and National Cancer Control Programme. The full list of these metrics/indicators can be found on the HSE website: http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/KPIs/
Items such as acute care in medicine and surgery, average length of stay, inpatient and day case waiting time are included as indicators.
Examples of an indicator include:

• % of adults waiting

Data users

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

Data content

Data on acute hospital activity.

Data dictionary

See metadata; http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/KPIs/

National-level identifier variables

PPSN or IHI are not included in the data collection.

Data collection methodology

Data collected to support these indicators is a combination of collecting primary data and data from national data collections. Primary data is submitted from all hospitals to the Business Information Unit on a daily, weekly and monthly basis via email and data transfers.

Data is also sourced from national data collections such as the Delayed Transfer of Care Web browser directly from hospitals, National Treatment Purchase Fund, NCCP, National Stroke Register, Hospital In Patient Enquiry and NAS.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

N/A.

Publication frequency

Information is published in Performance Profile Reports and Management Data Reports each month. This is based on KPIs as set out in the National Service Plan.

Accessing data

Information is published in performance reports each month.

Open data portal access

No.

Email contact
Telephone contact