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System monitoring, accountability and quality of care

Prescribing data

Information about key prescribing data such as PRISMS, Hospital Medicines Utilisation Database (HMUD) and more

Finance within the NHS

How money is spent and allocated across the NHS

System Watch

Monitors and predicts urgent and emergency care service pressures

Discovery

Provides comparative healthcare information for quality improvement, benchmarking and performance management across NHS Scotland

Source Platform

A visualisation tool with a range of linked health outputs and expenditure available to Health and Social Care Partnerships

Excellence in Care

Responsible for the programme-wide delivery of the Excellence in Care programme

Data management in primary, social and community care

Supporting Health and Social Care Partnerships, local authorities and health boards in the submission of data to national datasets

Data management in secondary care: hospital activity

Support and monitoring service for NHS boards and other data providers in the submission of national datasets

Acute and emergency services benchmarking

Helping acute and emergency services to compare and benchmark service delivery

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