HSE Performance Reports — Palliative Care
HSE – Business Information Unit - Community Health Care.
2006
To monitor and measure Palliative Care services and report on activity against National Service Plan and HSE Operational Plans.
All 32 Local Health Offices and all 9 Community Health Care Organisations and Hospital Groups and Hospitals which provide Palliative Care Services.
Data collection commenced in 2006 and is ongoing.
The Business Information Unit -Community Health Care - collates the HSE’s Performance Reports (PR), which provide an overall analysis of key performance data from Palliative Care. The activity data reported is based on Performance Activity and Key Performance Indicators outlined in the National Service Plan 2022 and the HSE Operational Plans 2022.
The Performance Report is overseen by the National Planning Oversight Group (NPOG), led by the Chief Operations Officer on behalf of the CEO. NPOG monitors performance against planned activity, as outlined in the National Service Plan, and highlights areas for improvement. A Management Data Report is also produced each month which provides more detailed data on the Metrics covered in the Performance Report.
Inpatient Palliative Care Services, Community Palliative Care Services are included as indicators. Examples of an indicator include: Access to specialist inpatient bed within seven days (during the reporting month).
BIU – CHC, CHOs, EMT, HSE Board NPOG, DOH and Service Leads for CHOs and Hospital Groups.
Data is collected in aggregate.
Palliative care services aggregate data only, patients seen, ethnicity, age, gender, geographical area, cancer and non-cancer high level diagnosis categories.
See Metadata
http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/KPIs/
2021 due to be published and 2022 will follow.
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See data content above.
Data collected to support these indicators are a combination of collecting primary data and data from national data collectors in the LHOS/CHOs. Primary data is submitted from all CHOs and relevant Hospitals to the Business Information Unit on a monthly basis via excel.
Clinical data is not collected.
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Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published quarterly and data is presented in these reports.
Performance Reports and Management Data Reports are published and can be located on the HSE website:
http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/publications/performancereports/
Data is published in the HSE Annual Reports.
Data request can also be made.
Data requests are routed through the Care Group/ Service Area as they are the owners of data, the NBIU assist with data requests as required by the Care Group/Service Area.
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