Complete financial controland crucial information for

GP Commissioning Consortia

iQ Budget Manager

What is iQ Budget Manager?

A unique application which supports commissioning and deals with key aspects

of the White Paper around data, information and financial monitoring.

iQ Budget Manager

iQ Budget Manager

Topical issues

• A comprehensive system of GP Consortia must be in place in shadow form during 2011 / 2012

• Supported by the NHS Commissioning Board

• Management Allowance – between £25 - £35 per patient?

• Pathfinder Organisations

• Operating Framework

• PCT Clusters

• Development Fund - £2 per head

• SUS – must be operating in shadow form from October 2011

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Key benefits

• Automated data validation of secondary care data

• Improved data quality

• Extensive reporting functionality which can be customised to local requirements

• Information and Management Intelligence

• Automated monthly allocation and analysis of funds

iQ Budget Manager

iQ Budget Manager

iQ Budget Manager

Consortium A

GP ConsortiumLead

Clinical Data Interface (CDI)

Practices

N3 Network

Federation Server Statistical Analysis

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iQ HealthMaps

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sets

Consortium B

GP ConsortiumLead

Clinical Data Interface (CDI)

Practices

Anonymised Datasets

Consortium C

GP ConsortiumLead

Clinical Data Interface (CDI)

Practices

An

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Data

sets

Example federated area

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Clinical system integration

• CDI enables automated extraction from all Clinical Systems• Practice Clinical System > Read Codes (2/3) > OPCS &

ICD10 > Clinic Codes / HRG Codes and Episode Types• Application of Patient Demographics, Disease Register

Information, Medications Data, Local Tariff Information and Local Speciality Cross Mapping

• Code selection and calculated costs• Requires good Read Coding at Practice level

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Because data is processed daily by the Practice and stored withiniQ Budget Manager, when the SUS data arrives it is imported and compared

instantly to the appropriate months activity.

Day 1Clinic Letter / Discharge summary received by practice

Day 2Scanned/Summarised in the clinical system

Day 3Records extracted and sent to iQ Budget Manager and saved ready forfuture validation

Day 55Inclusion date(‘flex’)

Day 62Reconciliation point(‘freeze’)

Day 56SUS Data imported intoiQ Budget Manager and the validation process can start

Day 61Queries sent to provider

Validation Process

This is the only way to validate to ensure the Practice can meet the Reconciliation Point in time.

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iQ Budget Manager Quality Process

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Reporting and analytical capabilities

• Direct answers to direct questions – reports provide the information required

• Template based reporting engine

• Fully customisable either by iQ or Local Health Economy

• Easy to use and quick to run

• It’s your data and you can access it

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Advanced Analyser

• Re-admissions within 30 days• Budgetary Spend (top line and detailed) • Referral patterns• Quality of discharge summaries• Referral sources• Discharge medications• Contractual arrangements with commissioned providers• CQUIN and QIPP targets• Timeliness of clinic Letters and discharges• Local and national tariffs• Excess bed days

This list is not exhaustive and reports can be customised to meet local requirements

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Finance Module

• Financial Monitoring at Practice and Consortium level

• Facilitates a detailed financial analysis of all seven key episode types

• Costs for each of these episodes is automatically extracted from the validation stage and imported into the finance module

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Capability to customise to consortia needs

• Fully customisable reporting

• Ongoing system development in line with market needs and locally driven Consortia requirements

• Local validation requirements

• Local providers and tariffs

• Unbundled tariffs

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Current and planned developments

• Finance module

• System updated to deal with current coding/tariff systems

• Primary care providers finance monitoring (PUS system!)

• Benchmarking around local area data/national HES data

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Cost• Annual licence • 70p per patient• Integral cost covers:

– installation– training: data entry and data validation– full customer support– updates to the various datasets of the product e.g. HRG, Read

3, OPCS, ICD10, providers and the national tariff)– customisation to meet local requirements– monthly feedback meetings– Excludes Server

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In summary

• iQ Budget Manager meets both the key requirements of the White Paper and the Financial, Contract Management and Commissioning requirements of the Local Health Economy

• Automatically validates SUS data and local provider tariffs

• Enables validation of all invoices between flex and freeze dates

• Controls monthly and cumulative budget expenditure

• Automated centralised GP clinical and prescribing data repository

• Furthermore the application is ready to deploy today

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Questions?