Most promising IT for GP-led commissioning

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Winner:

GPC+ NHS South of Tyne and Wear

GPC+ is an over-arching GP commissioning system that provides "real time" information on primary care, admissions, A&E and community services. It aims to help emerging clinical consortia deliver business objectives, with a focus on service improvement and the management of clinical practice using risk stratification models and disease register profiles.

Finalists

NHS Pathways and the Directory of Services - NHS Connecting for Health

NHS Pathways provides consistent clinical assessment of calls from the public to 999 or urgent care. Based on the symptoms the caller reports, an assessment is carried out that determines the specific clinical skills the patient requires; and the integrated Directory of Services locates an appropriate service for them. The DOS keeps a record of all searches made, to provide commissioners with data on the skills needed in their area.

Predictive modeling / risk stratification - NHS South West London, Integrated Care Primary Care Commissioning Group, Nelson Primary Care Commissioning Group, Johns Hopkins University, Sollis Partnership

This six month pilot project covered two commissioning groups - The Nelson Commissioning Group and the Independent Practices Commissioning Consortia. It highlighted a number of areas of improvement, focusing primarily on improving patient health outcomes and better use of community care nurses and case managers.

Oxfordshire Commissioning Intelligence - NHS Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Cluster

Oxfordshire Commissioning Intelligence is an advanced and scaleable information platform that is known locally as 'SUS+' and which already has 300 users. It integrates datasets essential to clinically led commissioning. The most recent addition to the system is the delivery of the Urgent Care Dashboard, with daily visibility of A&E, out-of hours, minor injuries unit, acute and community hospital activity.