What SNUG wants for Christmas...and SPIRE

Dr Keith Moffat is a GP in Ayrshire and is a GP Clinical lead for NSS (National Services Scotland)  within the ISD (Information and Services Division) Primary Care programme  with NSS. This includes SPIRE (Scottish Primary Care Information Resource) which is a data extraction service for Scottish general practices. He is involved in planning and prioritising which reports will be developed and made available to practices, e.g. regarding high risk prescribing or identification of frail patients. The LIST (Local Intelligence Support Team) help practices, clusters and HSCPs to access and link different datasets  for comparative data to help with  quality improvement activities. Different extract requests can now be sent out and one new idea is to extract aggregate data relating to cancer and links to lifestyle factors data collected in general practice in order to plan cancer services better.

Keith and Dr Neil Kelly of SNUG discuss the rollout of SPIRE in general practice, plans to maximise its benefit,  also data quality in general practice and some ways that this can be improved. The updated SCIMP codes are available here. Information governance around data extraction and plans to facilitate the use and improve the quality of aggregate data are also discussed.

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We also hear from a number of SNUG members about what they really want for Christmas!