All Wales Data Quality System (DQS) for General Medical Practices’ (GMP)

Concepts

• wales data quality system
• general medical practices
• cardiff
• software package
• information systems
• medical software
• wales
• gmp
• medical information systems
• dqs

Location

GP Practices across Wales

Description

NHS Wales had a requirement for a single provider to be appointed to provide a new Data Quality System and associated products and services. The associated products and services will predominantly be the provision of licences, maintenance, support, training and consultancy services to allow for the potential development of new modules and development consultancy for the provision of a ‘Data Quality System' to support data quality and reporting activities of individual General Medical Practices (GP practices) in relation to national and local requirements.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 48000000 - Software package and information systems
• 48180000 - Medical software package
• 48810000 - Information systems
• 48814000 - Medical information systems

Indicators

• Contract modified due to additional needs.

Legal Justification

the procured Audit+ solution with write back capability is so bespoke and embedded within NWIS’ national product set that it would present significant technical difficulties, inconvenience and disproportionate costs to employ a separate contractor to deliver the existing service and to migrate on to a replacement solution. In addition, the extension is necessary to ensure that continuity of this critical component in the delivery of the emerging clinical agenda (and its associated data requirements) in Wales, whilst also providing GPs with the essential data required to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, while NWIS seeks to review the market and re-procure a new solution. In the alternative NWIS also relies on Art.72(1)(c), the unforeseen circumstances being the delay to the re-procurement and the Covid-19 crisis.

Other Information

The Data Quality Solution which was procured in 2014 was designed to help practices improve their data quality and to help underpin the delivery of high quality patient care by being able to interface directly with GP systems. Audit+ provides the same audit capabilities for all practices, and therefore, it is used by all practices within Wales. Audit+ provides a common platform in Wales, which can readily be built upon to provide additional tailored modules produced directly by NWIS to support practices in delivering the emerging GP clinical agenda (and its associated data requirements) in Wales. At present, the solution is also pivotal and intrinsic to supporting the active management of the national pandemic as it provides data for the secondary user for: - COVID-19 Shielded Patient List identification; - COVID-19 Vaccination Programme; - COVID-19 risk stratification of the entire General Practice population in Wales; - Public Health Wales pandemic disease surveillance systems (COVID-19, flu, measles, mumps etc) - SAIL for research, COVID-19 modelling etc (WA Ref:107854)