Information Solutions

Our information solutions support key policy areas such as World Class Commissioning, Service Line Reporting and Patient Choice. As the combined effect of policy moves the emphasis from spending on services to investing in outcomes - positioning PCTs as trusted NHS community leaders - Northgate is working with PCTs to provide the information that underpins this change.

Our World Class Commissioning Desktop integrates key information modules within a centralised, commissioning portal. For example, our Demand Manager module offers simple-to-use information based on routinely collected data. This brings two important benefits: Healthcare providers can understand referral patterns and trends more easily, and healthcare commissioners can satisfy demand and control costs more effectively. Our Service Line Reporting capability provides managers and clinicians with detailed financial analysis through management dashboards so they can clearly see where and why patients fall outside standard tariffs, while Population Analysis and Service Mapping uses maps to visual and overlay multiple sets of data for analysis and reporting.

We also work with the Information Centre for Health and Social Care and Connecting for Health to develop and deliver NHS Comparators. This is a national, web-based service providing comparator data to commissioning and provider organisations. The solution supplements information available from local systems to enables managers to investigate local activity and share best practice.

Many of our information solutions are based on the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data. Northgate has been managing the HES system for many years so we understand the data, and what it can show, better than anyone else.