completed by GHG in months 1-8 of the NHS Referral date financial year. GHG’s London-area commissioners POD requested this data in line with the standard POD Description process used to agree an indicative activity plan for Activity Type the upcoming NHS financial year. A member of HRG GHG’s contract negotiating team received from HRG Description GHG’s informatics team (via GHG’s internal email Tariff without MFF system) a data file that included NHS numbers. Tariff With MFF The contracting team member manipulated the PBR base working file to exclude all NHS numbers from Treatment the data sheet; however, he took no action in Specialty Code respect of the front cover pivot table (i.e. the Treatment ‘drop down box’ function of the Excel worksheet). The Specialty file was then sent as an attachment to an email Description addressed to North East London CSU (NEL), North Date of West London (NWL) (a group of CCGs that handle ADMISSION their own commissioning support functions), and Discharge Date South East CSU. NEL and NWL deleted the email No. of Excess Bed without forwarding it to any other entities. South Days East CSU forwarded the email to six CCGs, Length of Stay including Croydon CCG, which on 1 April 2015 Date of attendance alerted GHG to the fact that NHS numbers were Treatment included in the file via the pivot table. 25,355 Function Code unique rows of data were included in that file (each Chargeable Month such row included an NHS number); the file held Concat 40,001 lines of data in total. Concat 2 Previous Ortho Code Appointment type PBT Flag Forecasted Tariff
completed by GHG in months 1-8 of the NHS financial year. GHG’s London-area commissioners requested this data in line with the standard process used to agree an indicative activity plan for the upcoming NHS financial year. A member of GHG’s contract negotiating team received from GHG’s informatics team (via GHG’s internal email system) a data file that included NHS numbers. The contracting team member manipulated the base working file to exclude all NHS numbers from the data sheet; however, he took no action in respect of the front cover pivot table (i.e. the ‘drop down box’ function of the Excel worksheet). The file was then sent as an attachment to an email addressed to North East London CSU (NEL), North West London (NWL) (a group of CCGs that handle their own commissioning support functions), and South East CSU. NEL and NWL deleted the email without forwarding it to any other entities. South East CSU forwarded the email to six CCGs, including Croydon CCG, which on 1 April 2015 alerted GHG to the fact that NHS numbers were included in the file via the pivot table. 25,355 unique rows of data were included in that file (each such row included an NHS number); the file held 40,001 lines of data in total. Referral date POD POD Description Activity Type HRG HRG Description Tariff without MFF Tariff With MFF PBR Treatment Specialty Code Treatment Specialty Description Date of ADMISSION Discharge Date No. of Excess Bed Days Length of Stay Date of attendance Treatment Function Code Chargeable Month Concat Concat 2 Previous Ortho Code Appointment type PBT Flag Forecasted Tariff
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