Tower Hamlets speeds up its reporting
Primary care trust uses business intelligence system to handle time-consuming tasks
Tower Hamlets NHS trust is using reporting software to save time and money on GP practice commissioning reports.
The reports are produced to check hospital and consultancy costs are being allocated accurately to each of the trust's 38 clinics, and previously took two days to collate from an Access database.
Manually prepared by cutting and pasting details from one spreadsheet into 38 others, the process was time-consuming and prone to human-error.
Under the new reporting system, the task can now be completed in about 50 minutes, and be done much more accurately than before, so that each clinic knows exactly what is being allocated to it.
The Datawatch Monarch system makes the task of collating the report very easy, says Carol McGuinness, senior IT analyst at Tower Hamlets.
'Datawatch built an automated data-extraction process for us, so that we were able to get started straight away, and we can change the reports or process whenever we need,' she said.
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