Health Outcomes
As you will already be aware, the reporting challenge set out in the “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS” is to change the emphasis of the reporting from top-down targets to the quality of healthcare outcomes.

This will present different problems for healthcare organisations depending on the current systems they have and their data capture and management methods. Do you capture all the data you need? Are your patient feedback forms saved with your PAS data? Is your data in a structure which can be shared with other healthcare organisations? Can you get all the information you need to show how good the service and outcomes of care are? Whatever challenges you face, the skill mix required to overcome them will be the same.

No one knows your system or the goals you are trying to achieve during these new challenges like you do. Reaching your goals is where Avoca can help. Our Health Outcomes team has the ideal mix of expertise: NHS data knowledge, relational database management systems, data capture and integration. Put simply: how to get all the data you need into one place to empower you with the information you need to show the quality of your health outcomes. You can expect to receive support for the effective, safe and timely use of knowledge bases, information and ICT systems from competent professionals who understand both informatics and its application in health care.

That skill mix is very hard to recruit for and would usually require 4 different roles: data analyst, database administrator, developer and integration specialist. This is why an Avoca consultant is very cost effective solution.

The experience and skills which make up an Avoca consultant includes:

• NHS Data Standards
• Reporting & analysis within the NHS
• Identifying the overarching indicators, improvement areas and NICE standards from the NHS Outcomes Framework within your data
• Data informatics experience on large NHS projects
• Acute, Community & Mental Health Data
• Demographics, patient duplication resolution
• Data handling skills
• Business writing
• SQL programming & database administration
• Consultancy skills & customer service
• Project planning & leadership
• Data protection & information governance
• Integration experience; ensemble, KB-SQL, Adaptors
• Reporting; SSRS, Dashboards