C6 General We will reduce the frequency Responses were mainly favourable of only an We will produce this publication on an annual Ophthalmic from biannual to annual annual publication. basis. Services publication only. Tables will remain largely unchanged; there activity Also see ref A13. will be no loss of data. statistics, selected statistics (half year publication) C7 Provisional We will stop monthly The bulk of the responses stated that the proposal We will discontinue the routine publication of Monthly publication of PROMs and to cease production of the monthly PROMs the monthly PROMs national summary. Patient instead publish on a quarterly publication would have a minimal impact for users However, PROMs data will continue to be Reported and annual basis only. of the data given that the monthly publications are collected, processed and made available to Outcome national summaries only and contain no data at customers on a monthly basis. Also see ref B8. Measures patient or organisation level. in A small number of respondents had concerns that England this would affect the availability of the underlying data routinely made available to hospital providers and to customers of our data services. For clarification, these services will be unaffected, the scope of the changes are to the summary information published monthly on the NHS Digital website only. C8 Personal We will reduce the frequency The responses showed a lot of support for retaining We will continue to work with Department of Social of the survey to run every two this as an annual collection, although this was Health to determine whether it is possible to
C6 General Ophthalmic Services activity statistics, selected statistics (half year publication) We will reduce the frequency from biannual to annual publication only. Also see ref A13. Responses were mainly favourable of only an annual publication. We will produce this publication on an annual basis. Tables will remain largely unchanged; there will be no loss of data. C7 Provisional Monthly Patient Reported Outcome Measures in England We will stop monthly publication of PROMs and instead publish on a quarterly and annual basis only. Also see ref B8. The bulk of the responses stated that the proposal to cease production of the monthly PROMs publication would have a minimal impact for users of the data given that the monthly publications are national summaries only and contain no data at patient or organisation level. A small number of respondents had concerns that this would affect the availability of the underlying data routinely made available to hospital providers and to customers of our data services. For clarification, these services will be unaffected, the scope of the changes are to the summary information published monthly on the NHS Digital website only. We will discontinue the routine publication of the monthly PROMs national summary. However, PROMs data will continue to be collected, processed and made available to customers on a monthly basis. C8 Personal Social We will reduce the frequency of the survey to run every two The responses showed a lot of support for retaining this as an annual collection, although this was We will continue to work with Department of Health to determine whether it is possible to