HSE Performance Reports — Primary Care and Social Inclusion

Data Collection Type
National Performance and activity reports
Organisation

HSE –– Business Information Unit -Community Health Care.

Year established

2006

Statement of purpose

To monitor and measure Primary Care and Social Inclusion and report on activity against National Service Plan and HSE Operational Plans.

Coverage (geographical and temporal)

All 32 Local Health Offices and all 9 Community Health Care Organisations and Service Providers.

Data collection commenced in 2006 and is on-going. Data is collected on a monthly and quarterly basis.

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 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 and the HSE Operational Plan 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. Business Information Unit collates the HSE’s Performance Reports (PP), which provide an overall analysis of key performance data Primary and Community 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 Plan 2022.
Items such as primary care, GP out of hour’s service, physiotherapy referral, occupational therapy referrals, no of therapy face to face, telephone and video and audio conferencing contacts, orthodontics, substance misuse, homeless service and traveller health screening, Examples of an indicator include: number of patients for whom a primary care physiotherapy referral was received in the reporting month substitution treatment (outside prisons).

Data users

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

Data content

Data is collected in aggregate.

Geographical area, by therapy nos. on waiting lists for treatment and assessment.

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.

Primary data is submitted from all CHOS and some Servicer Providers to the Business Information Unit on a monthly or quarterly basis via excel.

Clinical coding scheme

N/A.

Size of national collection

Primary Care 360,846.

Social Inclusion 9,168.

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/services/publications/performancereports/

Data is published in the HSE Annual Reports.
Data request 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.