Introduction and background

Community Services represent 10% of the National Health Service annual spend, a total yearly investment of more than £10 billion, yet a common understanding of the Community landscape – vital if the goals outlined by the White Paper 'Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for Community Services' are to be monitored and met, remains unclear.

The key to improving Community Services is the availability of information in the form of locally and nationally comparable data, to inform commissioning decisions and the management of services, which is the purpose of the Community Information Programme (CIP), supporting the DH 'Transforming Community Services' plan.

The following links you two the three key areas of work within the programme, providing you with all the relevant resources to implement these services, some of which are due to be nationally mandated.

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Community Information Data Set (CIDS)

The Community Information Data Set will aim to address the availability of information in the form of locally and nationally comparable data by providing national data definitions. read more...

Mobile Working

Measuring the effects and analysing the data of using mobile devices in community care. Pilot sites are reporting on the use of clinical and non-clinical mobile solutions during their contact with patients. read more...

Allied Health Professional Referral to Treatment

Measuring the legnth of time patients wait to access allied health professional NHS services. Supporting the collection, collation and national reporting of AHP RTT data. read more...

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