Spotlight on Quality: Data and Triangulation

During this spotlight on quality session we focused on how to use data across your organisation, and explored the importance of using different datasets in unison to make data-led decisions. We heard from our customers who shared their experiences embedding data into their organisation, as well as how they avoided common pitfalls on this journey.

January 31, 2024 6:30 AM
Online
Mike Farrar, Ceri Dallimore, Mark Austin

Highlights

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Driving a culture of data-based decisions

Building a data-led decision making culture across all levels of such complex healthcare organisations requires a clear plan and time. Our speakers explored ways they are driving this shift within their roles.

How to avoid analysis paralysis

As datasets are uncovered and utilised, it is all to simple to wait for more data instead of using what you already have to make an immediate positive impact. Our speakers run through their experiences to meet this challenge.

Strategies to avoid common data pitfalls

Pulling complex datasets together to unearth useful insights is challenging. Our speakers run through some common pitfalls to avoid including safeguarding data integrity & timeliness of data.

Speakers

Mike Farrar, Former CEO of NHS Confederation
Mike currently works as a management consultant with 15 years of CEO experience working within the NHS. His roles within the NHS have included Chief Executive of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authorities, Chief Executive of Tees Valley Health Authority and Head of Primary Care at the Department of Health (United Kingdom). During his time at the Department of Health, Mike was responsible for establishing Primary Care Groups, Primary Care Trusts, and PMS. In addition, he chaired the NHS Confederation GP Contract negotiating team that successfully negotiated the new General Medical Service contract and is the National Programme Director of NHS Live.
Ceri Dallimore, Digital Nursing Principle Analyst at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff and Vale Nursing Data Analyst, Ceri Dallimore is using her extensive experience of healthcare analytics to shape a distinctive role that bridges the Nursing and Digital domains. Specialising in triangulating data from a wide range of Digital systems to create actionable quality information, Ceri thrives on the challenge of uncovering the meaningful data stories that make a difference and plays a pivotal role in educating and empowering nurses to embrace digital data.
Mark Austin, Senior Informatics Officer at Manchester University Hospital NHSFT
With over thirty years’ experience in public sector information technology, Mark is an accomplished and highly committed, having fulfilled roles ranging from Chief Information Officer (CIO) through to Informatics Director. During his time within the NHS, he has gained a wide breadth of expertise in organisation operational Service Level Management, IT, Information Analysis and Information Governance (including IG Toolkit), Subject Access Requests/arbitrations and Freedom of Information requests/challenges.

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