HSE Performance Reports — Population Health and Wellbeing

Data Collection Type
National Performance and activity reports
Organisation

HSE – Business Information Unit - Community Health Care.

Year established

2015

Statement of purpose

To monitor and measure provision of services for Population Health and Wellbeing and report on activity against National Service Plan.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

Depending on the KPI, National, CHO & LHO and or Hospital Group/ Hospital.

Data collection commenced in June 2015 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 Population Health and Wellbeing. The activity data reported is based on Performance Activity and Key Performance Indicators outlined in the National Service Plan and the HSE Operational Plans.

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.

Items such Tobacco Control, Food Safety, Immunisation and Vaccines are included as indicators.

Examples of an indicator include:
- % children aged 24 months who have received the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine

- No of official food control planned, and planned surveillance inspections of food businesses.

Data users

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

Data content

Data on Population Health and Wellbeing activity; Immunisations, Environmental Health, Tobacco, MECC and Public Health.

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 collectors who submit to the Business Information Unit on a monthly basis via excel.

Example of National Data source is the Health Protection Surveillance Centre.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

9,402 lines of data annually.

Publication frequency

Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published quarterly and data is presented in these reports.

Accessing data

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

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

Data is published in the HSE Annual Reports.

Data requests can also be made.

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.