Primary Care Informatics (PCI) comprises a group of general practitioners who provide GP clinical domain advice for national digital solutions. With input from other clinicians within the NCISS team, they are the premier subject matter experts regarding Primary Care in Scotland. Their current endeavours are detailed below.
Cohort Identification
- Leading on developments of codesets
- Clinical informatics advice for various national cohort identification projects, such as:
- neurology disease prevalence for the Scottish Government National Advisory Committee for Neurological Conditions
- cancer diagnosis rates for NHS Lothian
- COPD and asthma management to reduce exacerbation rates and hospital admissions in NHS Grampian
Vaccination Programme
- Leading on codeset and search specification development based on JCVI guidelines for flu, covid, pneumococcal and shingles vaccinations. This allows for searches of GP IT systems to identify patients eligible for vaccination
National eHealth Projects
- GP in-hours activity – national data collection, dashboard, and publication on general practice activity
- GP IT – legacy systems and migration from EMIS to Vision as part of GPIT reprovisioning
- GP2GP – development of improved GP2GP system
- National Technology Services – Provision of clinical informatics to NES NTS for projects including the eRESPECT anticipatory care project
Data Specification & Data Analysis - Primary Care Data and Intelligence Platform
- The implementation of the NHS Scotland Primary Care Data and Intelligence Platform (PCDIP) provides access to general practice information at a national, regional, and local level. Benefits include:
- a single point for users to request GP data with a robust assessment process led by general practice data controllers
- clinical informatics input to assist in search specification and codeset development
- local dashboards to provide individual GP practices with information that is relevant to them to improve the quality of care they provide