A13 General We will these activity The responses showed that there is a We will maintain the current publications as Ophthalmic statistics with the General requirement for Ophthalmic information with the two separate publications. Services Ophthalmic services workforce majority of responses positive about the proposal We will review the data items collected and activity statistics. to merge the workforce and activity publications investigate if it is possible to collect data to statistics provided that there is no loss of data. Also see ref C6 and A14. enable statistics to be produced at local (Annual) A number of organisations requested information authority and other geographical areas. at geographical currently not published. A14 General We will merge these workforce We will also investigate the option of having Ophthalmic statistics with the General an England only workforce section within the services Ophthalmic services activity activity report. workforce statistics, once the new statistics ophthalmic payment system is Unfortunately the activity report is only able (Annual) introduced and running (from to produce information for England, 2017). workforce publications currently provides information for both England and Wales. The Also see ref A13. Welsh information is critical and required for users of the workforce publication and cannot be combined and included in the NHS Digital activity publication. All data are currently published at the level of geography at which they are collected and therefore we are unable to produce information at different geographical levels. A15 Hospital We will reduce commentary in The responses showed the proposal Episode the Summary Report and amount of commentary in the Statistics, merge the separate data was generally supported. A small Admitted quality notes into one. The responses highlighted the Patient Care - name will be changed to be written summaries. England consistent with other HES In addition, the proposal to the annual publications. notes received support where it was on. A16 Hospital We will reduce commentary in Outpatient the Summary Report and The name change proposal received Activity merge the separate data response; however some responder quality notes into one. The did not understand what was meant name will be changed to be
A13 General Ophthalmic Services activity statistics (Annual) We will these activity statistics with the General Ophthalmic services workforce statistics. Also see ref C6 and A14. The responses showed that there is a requirement for Ophthalmic information with the majority of responses positive about the proposal to merge the workforce and activity publications provided that there is no loss of data. A number of organisations requested information at geographical currently not published. We will maintain the current publications as two separate publications. We will review the data items collected and investigate if it is possible to collect data to enable statistics to be produced at local authority and other geographical areas. We will also investigate the option of having an England only workforce section within the activity report. Unfortunately the activity report is only able to produce information for England, workforce publications currently provides information for both England and Wales. The Welsh information is critical and required for users of the workforce publication and cannot be combined and included in the NHS Digital activity publication. All data are currently published at the level of geography at which they are collected and therefore we are unable to produce information at different geographical levels. A14 General Ophthalmic services workforce statistics (Annual) We will merge these workforce statistics with the General Ophthalmic services activity statistics, once the new ophthalmic payment system is introduced and running (from 2017). Also see ref A13. A15 Hospital Episode Statistics, Admitted Patient Care - England We will reduce commentary in the Summary Report and merge the separate data quality notes into one. The name will be changed to be consistent with other HES annual publications. The responses showed the proposal amount of commentary in the was generally supported. A small responses highlighted the written summaries. In addition, the proposal to the notes received support where it was on. The name change proposal received response; however some did not understand what was meant A16 Hospital Outpatient Activity We will reduce commentary in the Summary Report and merge the separate data quality notes into one. The name will be changed to be responder
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