Your data may not be sexy (but it is important).
Getting better at Business Intelligence in the NHS is important - regulatory reporting is already extensive and Trusts needs to be intimate with their workforce data to better control Bank and Agency spend. So where might this demand for insight come from? Well, a short list is: the NQB, NHSi, FOI requests, custom Board Reports and KPI alerts, Data Quality, Safe Staffing metrics and Rota Plan Quality too. This insight is often painful to deliver - sometimes the right metrics
The Rise of the Machines: e-rostering and automated reporting
On our travels, we've noticed Trusts depending on manually created reports – to check for problems or just to dig out key intelligence. Often these are hand-crafted from various sources. In some cases, it’s not possible to get at the data that’s needed at all. And when prepared (sigh!) these reports may then need to be laboriously segmented and then emailed to ward managers, execs and matrons. This is tedious, possibly error-prone and probably not the best use of a talented h