Commissioners have identified best practice and innovation as essential aspects of their information needs. Commissioners need to be kept up to date with best practice and innovation not just in the UK but worldwide. This will enable them to benchmark existing services and influence service redesign.
However, searching for best practice and innovation is not always simple as it relies on health services sharing their experiences; and when they do publish they are often not robust evidence based accounts, but a commentary.
This section will include useful resources for benchmarking, as well as search terms. Information on best practice and innovation can be found in the next section - 06 1 Best Practice and innovation.
Tips on searching the web:
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Useful search terms: best practice, programme evaluation, product evaluation, case stud*, innovat*, pathway*, protocol*, benchmark*,clinical effective*, clinical governance, cost effective*, indicator*, outcome*, patient safety, quality improvement, quality of patient care, quality assurance, collaborat*
- COMBINE WITH keywords reflecting the topic area you are focusing upon.
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To limit to NHS papers, try combining your results with: (pct OR "primary care trust" OR nhs)
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You can search for terms such as "board paper" / "strategy" to help to locate Trust papers
Also have a look at our summary of tips on searching the web and visit the Commissioning Specialist Library - a one-stop shop, providing timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for all those involved in commissioning.
Useful keywords for searching HMIC: benchmarking; innovations; health service evaluation; performance indicators; performance measurement; evaluation methods; service evaluation; good practices; pilot projects.
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Benchmarking Tools
Dr Fosters Practice and Provider Monitor (PPM) – a common information source for both providers and commissioners
As a World Class Commissioning consortium partner, Dr Foster Intelligence knows the role that information plays in achieving the key competencies and is in a unique position to support both commissioners and providers. PPM can help:
PCTs work with the Assurance Framework by drilling down further into their data
Providers understand the impact of commissioning on the use of their services and how hospitals can allocate resources effectively
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NHS Comparators
NHS Comparators is a national resource, and is part of the Secondary Uses Service (SUS) jointly delivered by The NHS Information Centre and NHS Connecting for Health. It provides comparator data for NHS commissioning and provider organisations, enabling users to investigate aspects of local activity, costs and outcomes. It is designed to be supplemented by information available in local systems. This site is only available on the NHS computer network.
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NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Modelling - Benchmarking Tools
You can use benchmarking software tools to compare the current performance of a health system with similar health systems. If you combine this tool with simulation, you can also use it to test the impact of change in comparison with another health system or group of systems. This is particularly helpful for matching your performance to similar organisations.
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Good Indicators Guide: Understanding how to use and choose indicators (pdf)
A short, practical resource for anyone in any health system who is responsible for using indicators to monitor and improve performance, systems or outcomes.
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NHS Benchmarking Database - Workforce
A one stop access point for a range of acute sector and PCT NHS data sources around performance, demographic and workforce data including over 200 different variables. The database allows comparisons across multiple organisations.
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NHS Benchmarking Network
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ONS Area Classification Scheme- ONS classification of NHS areas which can be used for comparison and benchmarking purposes.
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Corresponding health areas - ONS calculations based on 42 variables which calculate the statistical similarity between health areas. Resulting groupings of health areas can be used to benchmark geographically distant health areas.
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WCC Data Pack
Regularly refreshed data (252 indicators) that can be manipulated for local requirements and allow PCTs and SHAs to benchmark national, regional and comparable activity. Registration required
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Payment by Results (PbR) benchmarking.
Audit Commission tool which compares acute hospital activity data, clinical coding and PbR related data with other organisations at all acute NHS hospital trusts in England
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