HSE Performance Reports — Disability Services

Data Collection Type
National Performance and activity reports
Organisation

HSE – Business Information Unit – Community Health Care.

Year established

2013

Statement of purpose

To monitor activity against targets set in the National Service Plan in relation to HSE funded service provision for persons with a physical and or sensory disability or an intellectual disability.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

All providers of HSE funded disability services, LHOs, CHOs and National.

Data collection commenced in 2013 and is ongoing.

Description/Summary

The Business Information Unit -Community Health Care - collates the HSE’s Performance Reports (PP), which provide an overall analysis of key performance data from Disability Services. The activity data reported is based on Performance Activity and Key Performance Indicators outlined in the National Service Plan 2022 and the HSE Operational Plans 2022.

The Performance Report is overseen by the National Planning Oversight Group (NPOG), led by the Chief Operations Officer on behalf of the CEO. NPOG monitors performance against planned activity, as outlined in the National Service Plan, and highlights 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.

Examples of an indicator include:
- No. of Home Support Service Hours delivered to people with a disability (ID/Autism and Physical and Sensory Disability)
- No. of day only respite sessions accessed by people with a disability.

Data users

BIU – CHC, CHOs, EMT, HSE Board NPOG, DOH and Service Leads for CHOs.

Data content

Aggregate activity collected in relation to disability services provision.

See Metadata;

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/KPIs/

Data dictionary

N/A.

Equity stratifiers

No.

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 to the Business Information Unit on a monthly and quarterly basis via email.

Data in relation to Rehab Training Places is received from the Day Services Database. Data in relation to Disability Act compliance comes from the Assessment of Need database. Both of these databases are internal to the HSE.

Data is also sourced from the National Ability Support System (NASS). These databases are managed by the Health Research Board & HSE.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

15,968 lines of data annually.

Publication frequency

Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published quarterly and data is presented in these reports. The reporting frequency of the individual KPI’s inform the scheduling of the publication of data.

Accessing data

Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published and can be located on the HSE website

http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/performancereports/

Data requests are routed through the Care Group/ Service Area as they are the owners of data, the NBIU assist with data requests as required by the Care Group/Service Area.

Open data portal access

No.