Dr Foster Intelligence

In this section:

• Management information
  • Contacts
  • Improving quality of care
  • Supporting effective organisations
    • PPM
    • Performance Monitor
    • HMM
  • Managing long-term conditions
  • Commissioning
  • Patient experience
• Approved FESC provider

Supporting effective organisations

Practice and Provider Monitor (PPM) – a common information source for both providers and commissioners

PPM provides a monthly statement of accounts for each GP practice as well as activity and financial statements with drill downs to individual patient records and information on historical patient treatment.

Other analysis and reports provided include:

• A shared view of all inpatient and outpatient activity for providers and commissioners
• Comparisons of the effectiveness and efficiency of providers with data for all trusts in England
• Analysis of trends in income and tariff/bed days by HRG, diagnoses and procedure
• Analysis of admission numbers, episodes of care, length of stay, excess bed days over tariff, potential bed-day savings and emergency readmission rates
• Benchmarking to allow comparisons with other practices within the PCT and nationally
• Monthly activity statements at trust, PCT and practice level showing who has been treated, where and for what conditions
• The ability to drill down to individual patient records and histories dating back ten years

• Access a demonstration of PPM
• Find out more about PPM

Hospital Marketing Manager (HMM) - helping trusts plan and develop services

Reports and analysis from HMM helps you:

• Map admission patterns and compare them with neighbouring trusts and national average
• Identify where your referrals are coming from, as well as to what other places GP practices are referring to and for what conditions
• Assess how service provision supports population need
• Monitor the impact of patient choice
• Formulate marketing strategies and business plans
• Develop and manage your brand and reputation
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of marketing

• Access a demonstration of HMM
• Further information on HMM

Performance Monitor - effective and detailed reporting for informed decisions

Superseding Performance Investigator, Performance Monitor is an ideal tool to inform effective strategy and performance management decisions across an entire health economy. Fed by NWCS and HES data, this tool produces a number of reports allowing users to benchmark against peers at a national and local level on a variety of parameters. The tool is available to SHAs, PCTs and acute trusts and offers:

• Customised reporting generated from data updated monthly from NWCS and HES data sets
• Length of stay reporting and analysis
• Day case rate reporting
• Activity, Standardised Admissions Ratios (SAR), readmissions, mortality and tariff

• Further information on Performance Monitor