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NHS to end publishing GP list data
The NHS is considering plans to end the publication of data showing how many patients are registered with GPs, as part of a wider strategy to simplify and reduce the amount of data distributed by its information centre.
Currently, the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) releases the statistics on a quarterly basis, but claims it intends to scrap the practice over the next three years.
HSCIC’s proposal said: “’We will stop this quarterly publication. Some information will continue to be available at national level via Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) Recorded Dementia Diagnoses.”
The move will see some data publications being scrapped altogether, with others set to become less frequent and takes place as the organisation’s funding is due to be cut by 30 per cent in 2019/20.
The cuts to funding means the HSCIC has said it must ‘better prioritise our current services while maintaining our statutory obligations and producing high quality products and services at a lower cost’.
It added: “It is inevitable given the scale of the challenge that we will have to do some things differently, stop some statistical work or scale back where products are not adding the maximum value for money.”
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