Summary of Action Points from the BedStats CitiStat meetings

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							                                                     INFORMATION & PERFORMANCE SCRUTINY

                                                           ACTION PLAN APRIL 2006 TO DATE




                                                Summary of Current Action Points Updated 20 December 2006

  Action
 Number                  Issue                      Lead                                         Action                                          Status
(Meeting)
Action 1    Automate current manual data Iain Dorricott        TOPAS Implementation Monitoring of Roll Out                                Phase 1 to be
(April)     collection                                          Replacement of existing systems                                          completed by end
                                                                Plan for TOPAS roll out across whole system                              March 2007
                                                                PRI rolling out T5/T6 before end March 2007
                                                                Ninewells roll out T6 mid-2007
                                                               PCD sites rolling-out systems in stages dependent on the specialty and
                                                               any issues with current roll out.
Action 2    Rules for data collection –        Information     Information protocol for receipt, collection, pre processing etc           To be agreed
(April)     what, when, why, how do we         Team Managers        Document data sources
            manage                                                  Produce protocols

            Relationship       with      key                   Create „regular reports‟ list within Information Services departments,     Completed April
            providers (public health, HR,                      attaching „source of data‟ to each task
            external, internal) – receipt,
            collection, pre processing, data                   Protocols where relevant to be produced for the „regular task‟ list by     By End march 2007
            management                                         current task owners.

                                                               Create rules for data collection once single info service portfolios agreed To be agreed
Action 3    Timely v.‟s accuracy        and Information        Routine data audit report - Put in place a system which indicates the       To be agreed
(April)     consistence for data            Team Managers      timeliness, level of accuracy and consistency of data
                                                               EXAMPLE - Time - 2 wks old - Accuracy – 95% - Consistent – monthly
                                                               since 04 05


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Action 4    Team Development                 Information     Each information team to determine what and how we should address           Completed by 20
(April)                                      Team Managers   development needs:                                                          April 2006

Action 5    Review of Skills audit and       Information     Audit via a skills/ knowledge/ training assessment questionnaire. Review    Completed April
(April)     Analytical skills                Team Managers   findings and information managers to produce report.                        2006

Action 6    Cover arrangements               Information     Produce „regular reports‟ list for all team members encompassing content    Completed April
(April)                                      Team Managers   of report, source of data, recipient(s), job owner, secondary owner.        2006

Action 7    Succession planning              Information     Portfolio plan will identify gaps in secondary owners for regular reports   Completed
(April)     Enhanced team working            Team Managers   which require to be filled                                                  September 2006
Action 8    Review Presentation skills       Information     Review portfolio plan to identify training and personal development         By End March 2007
(April)     Other training, e.g.             Team Managers   requirements to be taken forward
            information security
Action 9    Improve Skills sharing and       Information     Internal
(April)     consider Organisational raids    Team Managers   Information Managers to attend meetings across NHS Tayside, shadowing
                                                             each other.
                                                             Team members, co-ordinated by managers to shadow other members of           On going
                                                             the team, across NHS Tayside and locations giving priority to the
                                                             reporting processes.
                                                             Information managers to evidence the progress of the shadowing

                                                             Due to annual leave, deadline pushed back. Information Managers to          On going
                                                             focus on shadowing, supporting the process and getting it started across
                                                             sites a.s.a.p.

                                                             External
                                                             Info Mgrs and selected team members to visit information services within    By End July 2007
                                                             other organisations for possible „good practice‟ ideas
Action 10   Agree detailed requirements of   Gerry Marr      May event on performance management in the delivery unit being run by       Completed May
(April)     key customers including          Bob Ironside    Bob Ironside – This will inform this development plan                       2006
            Delivery unit, CHP and
            Clinical Group
Action 11   Agree named contact within       Rae Taylor      Agree named contact once final single information team structure and        By End March 2007
(April)     single information team for                      portfolios have been confirmed.
            key customers


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Action 12   Getting customers to tell us      Rae Taylor         Review existing proforma and create a standard template for information
(April)     what their question is rather     Jenny Bodie        requests.
            than submit detailed              Lindsay Bedford
            information requests
                                              Information        Information Managers to produce a single NHS Tayside information              By End December
                                              Team Managers      request form, to be signed-off by Rae Taylor
Action 13   Review what service the           Information        Produce information on what is currently provided by the current              Completed April
(April)     information team provides         Team Managers      information teams.                                                            2006
Action 14   Building a single information     Caroline Selkirk   Provide progress reports, by way of action plan and portfolio lists, on the   On going
(April)     team                              Rae Taylor         building of the new single information team.
Action 15   Implement NHS net across          Iain Dorricott     Request and encourage all team members to move from NHS Tayside               Completed
(April)     single information team           Les Henderson      intranet e-mail to NHS net e-mail.                                            November 2006
Action 16   Review Marketing plan /           Information        Jenni to attend Modernisation Team Meeting in October 06.                     Completed October
(April)                                       Team Managers                                                                                    2006

            Roadshows to progress raising                        Determine arrangements for raising the profile of the new single By End March 2007
            profile of single information                        information team taking into consideration roadshow events newsletter
            team                                                 publications etc. Await new team structure and portfolios to be fully
                                                                 implemented.
Action 17   Interpretation                    Jenni Douglas      Jenni to attend Improvement Methodology workshop in November 2006.    Completed
(April)     Modelling                                                                                                                  November 2006
            Analysis
Action 18   Review Information security       Iain Dorricott     Information team members requested to complete questionnaire indicating       Completed
(April)     training for single information                      last attendance on security course. Dates requested from Peter Mckenzie.      September 2006
            team                                                 Information Team advised to attend annually.
Action 19   Discuss integration of HR data    Caroline Selkirk   Determine integration of HR Systems. Now indicated that this is not part      Completed
(April)     systems                           Lindsay Bedford    of single information team remit.                                             September 2006
Action 20   Review data reconciliation /      Caroline Selkirk   Ongoing as part of TayStat development work. The single information           On going
(April)     audit across all systems          Lindsay Bedford    team will address this within a portfolio and instigate routine data
                                              Information        reconcilliations.
                                              Team Managers




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Action 21   IT systems that support single   Iain Dorricott   Initial discussions to consider business objects and direct access to patient   Completed
(April)     systems working – facilities     Jenni Douglas    activity information have taken place with Maryfield ICT and Cambric.           September 2006
            not systems
                                             Iain Dorricott   Current status is that Maryfield ICT and Cambric are working towards a          By End January
                                                              Universe for Topas data.                                                        2007

                                             Iain Dorricott   Provide access to formal business objects “nhs” based training for              Completed
                                             Jennie Douglas   information team users. Arranged for 31 January 2007 in Edinburgh               November 2006

                                             Jenni Douglas    Jenni to create standard reports within Business Objects                        By End January
                                                                                                                                              2007
                                                              Further meetings will be required to discuss Topas System and business
                                             Jenni Douglas    objects, incorporating „New Ways of Measuring Waiting Times‟ as
                                             Iain Dorricott   required                                                               By End March 2007
Action 22   Review / investigate further     Iain Dorricott   Develop awareness of Knowledge Services and eLibrary. Iain to attend On going
(April)     development of library and                        initial / subsesquent Knowledge Services Information Sharing Events.
            knowledge services
                                                              First event Dunblane October 06. Information packs from event circulated        Completed October
                                                              to managers.                                                                    2006
Action 23   Identify gaps and areas where    Information      Teams to identify a list of current data collected that they think could be     Completed April
(April)     current data collection can be   Team Managers    stopped. These reports will be used as part of a session at the development     2006
            stopped                                           event on 2 May 06
Action 24   Agree data audit plan            Information
(April)                                      Team Managers
Action 25   Ensure all staff have logged     Information      PDP‟s to be determined once portfolio plans and structure is in place.          By End March 2007
(April)     their PDP and appraisals on      Team Managers    PDP‟s to be developed from appraisal process. Managers to be aware of
            the training database            Anne Joiner      training issues required to complete appraisal and PDP where this process
                                                              not currently in place. AJ to obtain appraisal course information and book
                                                              Jenni Douglas and Lesley Sutherland for training




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Action 26   Feedback on performance and     Rae Taylor       Information managers to seek continuous feedback from key customers            On going
(April)     Value for Money                 Jenni Douglas    when determining information request requirements or attending events
                                            Karen Jack       where key customers stakeholders are attending.
Action 27   Identify portfolios for each    Rae Taylor       Portfolio plan to be determined for each member of staff based on current      Completed October
(June)      team member based on            Information      workload. Lead and supporting officers to be allocated dependent on task       2006
            workload and HEAT/LDP           Team Managers    requirements and current skills/knowledge.
            performance measures            All

                                            Rae Taylor       Agreement to provisional portfolios and movements of line management           Completed October
                                            Information      between teams for staff requiring to be moved.                                 2006
                                            Team Managers

                                            All              Implementation of fully agreed portfolios                                      By End January
                                                                                                                                            2007

                                            Rae Taylor       Review of portfolios at team member level                                      By End March 2007
                                            Information
                                            Team Managers
Action 28   Information team currently      Iain Dorricott   Initial discussions with D Downie and I Dorricott as to short-term             Completed August
(July)      has access to three website                      solutions for creating a single information site, linking it within Change &   2006
            locations based on previous                      Innovation.
            management arrangements.
            These require to be comibined   Iain Dorricott   Further discussions around the initial content of the single website.          On going
            to reflect single information
            team.                           Iain Dorricott   Review of content required within the website to reflect portfolio             By End January
                                            Donna Downie     information                                                                    2007

                                          Iain Dorricott     Implementation of a single website, showing key progress made towards          By End March 2007
                                          Donna Downie       information and performance reporting across NHS Tayside
Action 29   Instigate department meetings Iain Dorricott     Arrange programme of department meetings – these to be seen as learning        Completed
(July)      programme for Team            Anne Joiner        events to share knowledge and expertise. To be on an “area rotational”         November 2006
                                                             basis. Meetings to be held every two months and last no longer than two
                                                             hours. Dates should be arranged in advance for minimum 6 meetings.
Action 30   Instigate individual team       Information      Each team to arrange regular team meetings to enable flow of information       Completed
(July)      meetings                        Team Managers    and to discuss task workload and individual team issues.                       November 2006


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Action 31   Head of Information to meet Iain Dorricott    Information managers and Rae to schedule two weekly meetings into diary     Completed July
(July)      with Information Managers Anne Joiner         and to provide updates on current tasks workloads at each event.            2006
            every two weeks
Action 32   Single Shared Directory     Iain Dorricott    ICT to be contacted to discuss option for creation of a single shared       On going
(July)      Structure                                     directory across the single information team. Initial contact made with
                                                          Kevin Burns on 4 August. Priority raised with Kevin on 17 October.
Action 33   Determine action and         Information      Interim portfolio arrangements put in place and notified to team members    By End March 2007
(July)      portfolio for general        Team Managers    for –
            administration issues        Anne Joiner      Sick Leave, Staff Returns, Annual Leave, Travel Claims, Booking
                                                          Meeting Rooms, Estates, Stationery, General Risk Assesssment, Health &
                                                          Safety, Fire, Secretarial Support, Name Badges
Action 34   Determine action and         Iain Dorricott   Team members requested to complete questionnaire to allow annual            Completed October
(July)      portfolio for general        Lesley           review to take place in relation to attendance at and knowledge of –        2006
            administration issues        Henderson        Fire, Health & Safety, Information Governance, First Aid Contact, General
                                                          Risk Assessment
Action 35   Arrange replacement names    Karen Jack       Team members to complete replacement badge form and to have                 By End January
(August)    badges for entire team       Anne Joiner      photographs taken. Revised to Information Managers only                     2007

Action 36   Ensure Information team      Rae Taylor       Obtain authorised signatory form, complete and submit to financial          Completed by
(August)    managers are recorded as     Anne Joiner      services.                                                                   September
            Authorised Signatories
Action 37   Implement brought forward                     Create shared directory with file showing tasks, responsible person and     On hold awaiting
(August)    tracking system                               deadlines for completion for all ad-hoc information requests.               Action 33
Action 38   Amend team entries within All                 THB and former Primary Care complete                                        Completed by
(August)    LDAP       to change     and                                                                                              September
            Innovation.
                                                          Acute unable to action as choice unavailable in drop down list – reported   Completed by
                                                          to ICT and Nicky Foley. Issue resolved acute complete.                      September

Action 39   Agree names of teams,        Caroline         Department name, team names and managers names agreed                       Completed by
(August)    managers and department      Selkirk          Information and Performance Scrutiny                                        September
                                         Rae Taylor       Karen Jack – Information Manager – Corporate
                                                          Jenni Douglas – Information Manager – Operational
                                                          Iain Dorricott – Information Manager - Infrastructure




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Action 40     Consider shared calendar Iain Dorricott            Shared calendar access not available through NHS Net, however initial       By End November
(August)      access whilst not available                        discussions suggest that if the entire team moved from former LDAP          subject to action 54
              through NHS NET                                    locations of TPCT THB and TUHT then an interim solution could be
                                                                 achieved. All team members informed to move therefore to NHS Net mail
                                                                 to allow this to be fully considered.
Action 41     Information managers to share     Anne Joiner      Provide Anne Joiner with paper copy of diary weekly to allow Anne Joiner    Completed by
(August)      manual diaries                                     Rae Taylor to be aware of location of information managers at all times     August
Action 42     Create standard letterheads for   Iain Dorricott   Les to create standard letter heads and templates for other documentation   Completed by
(September)   all document types                Les Henderson    which conform to Board template standards and circulate to information      October
                                                                 managers to implement
Action 43   Amalgamate current three Iain Dorricott              Review made of current websites. Initial contact made with ICT to           Completed by
(September) information services websites Donna Downie           consider options. Donna to work on structure for current websites and to    November
                                                                 look at proposal for bringing this together in the short term.

                                                                 Longer term to review all website content currently available and to
                                                                 remove duplicate information, revising current information to a standard    By September 2007
                                                                 format.
Action 44   Review attendance at                Rae Taylor       Disseminate information on courses, conferences, seminars and meeting       Completed by
(September) conferences, courses,               Information      agendas to allow decisions to be made ensuring department is represented    September
            meetings to ensure                  Team Managers    and that wherever possible appropriate manager attends.
            Information Team is
            appropriately represented.
Action 45   Changes in line management          Information      Information team mangers to meet and discuss individually with staff who    Completed by
(October)                                       Team Managers    will be involved in changes to their line management as a result of         October
                                                                 portfolio agreements.
Action 46     Confirm requirements with         Iain Dorricott   Confirm with HR the action required for changing line management of         Completed by
(October)     HR for line management                             staff within current teams and structures                                   October
              changes
Action 47     Announce Team Structures          Rae Taylor       Formally announce Information Managers and Team Members at                  Completed by
(October)     and Members                                        department meeting on 6 November.                                           November
Action 48     User Acceptance Testing of        Information      Information team managers are involved with ICT and Cambric to              By End January
(October)     Business Objects for TOPAS.       Team Managers    implement and User Acceptance Test Business Objects for Topas. In           2007
              Extension of Action 22                             discussion with ICT the agreed timescale is to complete UAT for the
                                                                 project by 12 January 2007.
Action 49     Standardise Flexitime working     Information      Flexitime policy written by Information Team Managers, agreed with Rae      Completed by
(October)     agreement across team             Team Managers    Taylor and implemented across all teams.                                    October


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Action 50    Consider re-location of       Iain Dorricott     Formal request made to Carloine Selkirk. Caroline has passed to Rae so        Completed by
(October)    Ashludie staff to KxH         Caroline Selkirk   they can discuss                                                              October
                                           Rae Taylor
Action 51    Provision of Laptop           Iain Dorricott     Formal request made to Carloine Selkirk. Caroline has passed to Rae so        Completed
(October)    equipment for Information     Caroline Selkirk   they can discuss CS has passed laptop to ID. ID has made available laptop     November 2006
             Managers                      Rae Taylor         with open access to JD.
Action 52    Ensure stationery can be      Iain Dorricott     Brought forward from Action 34
(October)    ordered and delivered to      Anne Joiner
             information managers                             Iain/Anne to arrange for additional stationery codes to be provided to        Completed by
             locations.                                       allow ordering and delivery to individual managers locations. Anne to         October
                                                              provide instructions codes to managers when available.
Action 53    Provide draft Objectives      Information        Provide draft objectives based on current detail supplied by Rae Taylor       Completed
(October)                                  Team Managers      taking into account own portfolio, tasks and action plan.                     December 2006

Action 54    Review action required to     Iain Dorricott     From action 40                                                                Completed by
(November)   transfer email accounts                          Rae Taylor and Anne Joiner require IT support to review current email         November
                                                              content prior to transfer to NHS Net. Anne to contact Lorraine Reid to
                                                              arrange meeting to discuss and progress
Action 55    Create departmental           Iain Dorricott     Communications Strategy template issued November 2006 – workshop to           Completed by
(November)   Communications Strategy                          be held 4 December 2006 following which strategy to be documented.            December
Action 56    Statistical Process Control   Jenni Douglas      Investigate purchase and training for statistical process control package     By End March 2007
(December)   Package
Action 57    Write protocols for tasks     All                Review existing and create new protocols for tasks within all portfolios      By End June 2007
(December)   within new portfolios
Action 58    Provide draft objectives      All                Provide draft objectives based on current detail supplied by HIPS and         By End January
(December)                                                    Information Managers taking into account own portfolio, tasks and action      2007
                                                              plan. All staff should have a folder containing action plan, objectives and
                                                              evidence of objectives completed or evidence of objectives on-going.
Action 59    Remove all archive and        Iain Dorricott     All archive and unnecessary documents to be removed from information          By End January
(December)   unnecessary documents from    Donna Downie       department‟s intranet sites to ease transition to electronic document store   2007
             all IS intranet sites                            from February 2007. Guidance issued to staff 14 December 2006
Action 60    Review archive and current    Rae Taylor         IPS currently have responsibility for Performance website. Content to be      By End January
(December)   documents on Performance      Donna Downie       reviewed by RT and then he is to transfer responsibility for site to Health   2007
             Website and transfer                             Strategy
             responsibility to Health
             Strategy


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Action 61    Complete 2006 appraisal       Information      Information managers to complete 2006 appraisals for department staff      By End March 2007
(December)   process                       Managers         and to prepare for roll out of 2007 appraisal methods
Action 62    Presentation to Executive     Rae Taylor       RT to prepare presentation to reflect current view of information team     By End January
(December)   Teams                                                                                                                     2007
Action 63    Develop role within Quality   Iain Dorricott   AJ to ensure that IPS department is represented at QIC meetings and also   On Going
(December)   Improvement Circle            Anne Joiner      to share administration methods agreed or that could benefit the
                                                            department




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