Background and Purpose
This project will receive Wolverhampton GPs (Non-VI) data from the Graphnet* system which is authorised by Wolverhampton Practices to extract data from their systems. This will enable analysis work to risk stratify and identify patients at risk. By doing this it will be possible to align primary, secondary and community care more closely with the aim of improving patient outcomes and supporting patients to remain safe and healthy.
Note: Graphnet have in conjunction with Wolverhampton CCG agreed to provide GP practice data following the Covid-19 outbreak so that RWT can utilise this data to help provide anticipatory care on a Wolverhampton – wide level. This data will be utilised to help analyse and be proactive in managing the Covid-19 outbreak in the first instance by integrating GP data with Trust data. However, the Wolverhampton health economy needs this resource and functionality to not only manage any future health emergencies but also use this data to provide population level anticipatory care.
As a result of the greater understanding of service needs, transformation of healthcare across Wolverhampton can be achieved. Potentially this could be through pooling of resources, providing budgetary flexibility across primary, secondary and community care, will improve the ability to act at scale on a defined population, managing long term conditions on a unified basis.
It will also improve the justification to invest in staff and infrastructure in primary care. The close working links that will be developed between primary, secondary and community care teams will allow novel extended clinical and managerial roles.
The anticipated patient benefits include:
- Improved access to primary care
- Improved primary prevention
- Improved secondary and tertiary prevention
- Unified risk stratification and complex care management
- Reduction in inappropriate emergency care usage
- Improved End of Life Care
- Covid 19 Disease management and also future disease outbreak management
The anticipated benefits to front line clinical staff include:
- Improved communication and joint working between primary, secondary and community clinicians.
- Improved working lives for GPs and primary care teams.
This work has already been done with the RWT VI practices (for general risk stratification) and now seeks to extend the project to the Non-VI practices to supported the purposes stated above.
There is a plan for informing patients of this new use of information. This includes:
- Due to the Covid 19 emergency, Wolverhampton CCG have agreed on behalf of GPs in Wolverhampton to provide data immediately to RWT to manage this outbreak for the benefit of the Wolverhampton population.
For other uses of the data the Trust will work with Practices to implement a patient fair notice data processing strategy, which includes:
- GP Practice posters – This illustrates the benefits of the project as well as outlining who to contact if patients have concerns and also that they are able to opt-out of sharing their data. These posters will be displayed in practices from the point that the GP practices sign the Data Sharing Agreement and a go live date is agreed.
Fair notice letter – A letter has been constructed and finalised with the help of the IG implementation group and also the PPG’s who have fed back comments and necessary changes.
Data flows and Mapping between the GP practices and RWT
