PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

PRIMIS Foundations

Professor Mike PringlePRIMIS Strategic Director

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

PRIMIS participating PCTs 2003

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

PRIMIS progress

• A success story!• The numbers:

– 360 facilitators trained (292 currently in post)

– 232 PCTs containing 6,617 practices– data from 2,854 practices– covering 19,704,397 patients

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

    

                                                                            

        

The PRIMIS Team

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

The PRIMIS Team

• small but powerful!• cost effective• high morale• reputation for delivery• ongoing support

– education and training– analysis and feedback– communications– technical innovation

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

Achievements

• Steady progress towards– data quality improvements– effective changes in working lives– better use of GP systems– better patient care?

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

A new world for 2003

• environmental changes– major investment in NHS IM&T

• more integration

– new Director-General – Richard Granger

– new organisations• Care Trusts• Teaching PCTs• CHAI

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

PRIMIS response …

• to new training needs:– information governance– patient safety– clinical information: uses and abuses– action planning for change– path to paperless– mentoring

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

PRIMIS response …

• to new analysis and feedback needs: – supporting NSFs– Rush for Practices– efeedback– increasing automation to speed up

feedback– feedback development group

• new analyses and displays

– GP contract - depending on the ballot!

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

The future for general practice

• general practice information central to NHS– IM&T developments– GP record central– patient permission for dataflows– GP2GP and hospitals and pharmacy– integration of systems (ICRS)– NSFs– SNOMED– GP contract (maybe)

PRIMIS Third National Conference Tuesday 1 April 2003

Birmingham

The future for PRIMIS• one-year contract extension to 2004 …• helping primary care

– to make sense of changing environment

• providing– IM&T education and training– confidential and effective analysis,

interpretation and feedback service– with our facilitators!

• supporting– people, processes and patient care