Towards a full implementation of collaborative care plan. OR Informing National Health Policy

Today, UK healthcare strategy managers face a challenge in developing and implementing an efficient care process in line with preserving a steady care evidence-based practice. This would be possible through the monitoring of time schedule and reduction of unnecessary variability with respect to clinical performances, consequently, to achieve the required quality of service at a contained cost. For this purpose the development of a model requires a firm rational basis to provide clear direction. Therefore, it is necessary to provide a systematic assessment for planning and coordinating healthcare services through which patients needs have to be achieved. This study aims to cover the healthcare process for particular conditions, e.g., COPD, Diabetes, Chronicle Heart Disease etc, modelling together the interaction of all components of Hounslow healthcare system, hence, to track patient flow across the system using spatio-temporal models and to evaluate the variations in length of stay and referral activities from the standardised pathways. Furthermore, we intend to derive indexes to inform the reshaping and the delivery of healthcare system

Data warehousing based architecture for the reporting of the NHS primary care prescribing

Primary Care Prescribing is one of the most complex established NHS therapeutic processes. A wide array of drugs is prescribed on a regular and irregular basis to a large cohort of the population. The prescribing budget funds the costs of drugs prescribed in primary care. Typically a primary care trust overspends its prescribing budgets on drugs with dynamic prescribing patterns and pricing. Furthermore, prescribing patterns are an accurate indicator of the quality of healthcare provided in primary care. In this paper a data warehousing approach is proposed that allows integrating prescribing data from different GP practices, equipped with an adhoc OLAP utility that allows measurement of the local prescribing activity within available resources