Patient Pathways
Unscheduled Care Linkage
The ISD Unscheduled Care Information Programme has started work on a 'proof of concept' project to link 3 months (Jan 2010 to Mar 2010) patient based data for the following organisations NHS24, A&E, Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and ACaDMe with additional data from one Health Board from the Out of Hours services. The objectives of this work are to understand the pathways that individual patients take and identify outcomes for patients which will help to inform planning, monitoring and delivery of unscheduled care services.
The method of analysing the data relies on the CHI number being used across all datasets to identify individual patient contacts with any of the services. Following record linkage work, the CHI number has been added where possible to SAS data and we are beginning analysis of a combined dataset to produce preliminary results.
From the combined dataset, we have identified over 140,000 continuous unscheduled care pathways (CUPs) and hope to be able to share some our high level findings in due course.
If you would like any more information or have any queries please contact Alyson Macdonald at Alyson.macdonald@nhs.net
