Model Hospital Newsletter – Jan 2020

Earlier this week, we received the Patient-Level Information and Costing Systems (PLICS) data, collected from trusts by NHS Digital in August / September last year.  Our team is now dedicating all efforts to process and refresh the costing metrics and opportunities in the Model Hospital as quickly as possible.  With this annual data update, Reference Cost data will be replaced with 18/19 National Cost collection (PLICS) data. Users can expect all cost metrics (e.g. Cost per Weighted Activity Unit) to be updated, alongside the headline ‘opportunities’ that are presented on your homepage.  We expect the Annual Data refresh to take place over the next month and will update on specific timelines as soon as the data have been processed by our analysts. We understand that the official release of
PLICS data and the associated publications is planned for the end of January. We appreciate the high value that is placed on this information during your local planning and we are doing all that we can to release these data as soon as possible.

Thank you to everyone who watched our Model Masterclass webinar series throughout 2019.  We enjoyed receiving all your questions and insightful comments.   All previous sessions are available here until January 24th 2020.   After this date, we will be moving all our existing Model Masterclass webinars to a new platform. Further details will be provided shortly.

We are very keen to hear from you about your
ideas for future webinar topics.  Please send your ideas to help@model.nhs.uk

Mental Health Inpatient Data webinar – 22nd January, 2020

Our next Model Masterclass will take place on 22nd January, 2020.  This webinar will provide a “how to” on using the two different sources of Mental Health inpatient data (Model Mental Health Service and Acute Data Dashboard) and will be relevant for all trusts that deliver mental health services.

For more information on how to sign up, please click here.

New email address for the Model Hospital Helpdesk

We now have a new email address for the Model Hospital helpdesk help@model.nhs.uk  Please start using this new email address from today, and send across all your queries, comments and questions to our Helpdesk team.   Emails sent to the previous ‘tickets’ address will continue to reach us for the next 2 weeks, but after that they will no longer be responded to.

Follow us on Twitter!

If you are on Twitter, follow us @Model_Hospital. We regularly post lots of Model Hospital updates, new developments and details of upcoming webinars.  Don’t forget to tag us in your posts about the #ModelHospital