Dr Foster Intelligence

In this section:

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

Improving delivery and performance in secondary care

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

PPM provides commissioners and service providers with extensive support in commissioning and tracking and monitoring in-hospital activity.

Clinician Outcomes and Benchmarking - supporting consultants improve the quality of patient care

This easy-to-use web-based tool enables consultants to monitor their own performance and quality of outcomes, benchmarked against national data down to department level.

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.

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

HMM is already helping over 50 per cent of foundation trusts gain insight into their admissions patterns, including by specialty and by admissions to neighbouring trusts.

Real Time Monitoring (RTM) - enabling providers and commissioners to benchmark and monitor clinical outcomes

Used by nearly 60 per cent of acute trusts and 50 per cent of foundation trusts, RTM helps identify potential clinical issues and methods for improving quality of care.

Patient Experience Tracker (PET) - instant feedback on patient and staff experience

PET offers a simple, practical and robust method of capturing and analysing results from large numbers of users – rapidly, frequently and without the need for paper-based questionnaires and extra analytical resources.