Proposal for ROCR Approval
1. Record
Type?
Review
2. Unique
Number
R01012
3. Title
Health Visitor Workforce Collection
4. Collection
Type
National
5. Other
Reference
6. Description
This application has been completed on behalf of
Simon Weldon (Regional Director of Operations &
Delivery, London) and Jane Cummings (Chief Nursing
Officer). Barbara Hakin (Chief Operating Officer) has
approved the collection. The collection will enable us
to further monitor and support the government’s
commitment to recruit 4,200 more health visitors by
2015 by supplementing the MDS collection. The
commitment features in the Coalition Agreement, the
NHS England Business Plan, the NHS Mandate, the
Department of Health's Section 7a agreement and the
Department’s Structural Reform Plan. A detailed action
plan “Health Visitor Implementation Plan 2011 – 2015
– A Call to Action” was published in March 2011.
Although this collection focuses on numbers, the key
aim of the commitment is to improve the service
offered to children and families. This collection will
give current workforce numbers and additional
intelligence which will be an essential part of
monitoring growth in the final phase of the project.
Regular reports with current up-to-date figures are
required by the Secretary of State in order that
progress of delivery against the Area Team level
workforce trajectories can be closely monitored. This
will allow for any issues / shortfalls to be flagged up in
real time and appropriate recovery action taken
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promptly to ultimately succeed in delivering the
additional 4,200 health visitors by March 2015 and
maintaining/achieving that number by September
2015 with the transition to local authorities.
7. State
Submitted to ROCR
8. ROCR
Reference No
ROCR/OR/2233/001MAND
9. Start Date
01/04/2015
10. End Date
30/09/2015
11. FT
Collection
Type
NOT REQUIRED
12. Collection
Type
MANDATORY
13. Owning
Organisation
NHS England
14. Owning
Department
15. Owner
Name and
Contact
Details
Name: Bhaven Shah
Email: bhaven.shah@nhs.net
Tel No: 01138249682
Location: NHS England
16. Senior
Supporting
Official Name
Richard Pearce
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17. Senior
Supporting
Official
Contact
Details
Title: Senior Lead in Analytical Services
Tel No: 02079329045
Email: richard.pearce1@nhs.net
Location: NHS England
18. Data
Provider Burden Days
1688.03
18. Data
Provider Burden £
£ 561714.64
18. Frequency
Monthly
18. Source
Organisations
(Number of
orgs)
NHS England Region (Geography) (13) , Acute Non
Foundation Trust (74) , Acute Foundation Trust (50)
19. Set Up
Costs
£0
20. Other
Costs
£ 5000
21. Total
Costs
£ 566714.64
22. Please
explain the
reason for any
increase or
decrease in
burden and
provide
the number of providers have decreased as well as the
collection time frame decreasing.
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details of the
any other
costs figure
provided in
Q20
23. Benefits to
Patients and
the NHS
This collection is essential to the monitoring of this
priority project in its final stage; it will provide up to
date accurate information. This includes the total
'actual number of health visitors (FTEs) in post' to
include those that have not been recorded on systems
e.g. due to be incorrectly coded on ESR, delays in
contract signing or NMC registration. Achieving the
target of an additional 4200 health visitors in post by
March 2015 will benefit patients by delivering service
transformation as set out in the NHS mandate. NHS
England has a commitment in the Section 7a Mandate
to maintain the additional 4200 health visitors until
transition of the 0-5years services to local authorities
in October 2015.
24. Financial
benefits to
running this
collection
25.
Publication
methods
The results of the collection will be published on the
NHS England website. The collection will be reported
to the Secretary of State for Health on the
performance against plan to meet and maintain the
target of an additional 4,200 FTE Health Visitors by
September 2015.
26.
Publication
Links
http://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-workareas/health-visitors/indicative-health-visitorcollection-ihvc/
27.
Requesting
Organisation
NHS England
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28. Collection
Method
Unify2
29. NHS
Mandate
Commitment
This proposal supports the commitment to deliver the
Healthy Child programme and the commitment to
delivering service transformation as set out in the NHS
Mandate.
30. Changes
since last
assessment
Reduced the number of fields required to be filled in
by providers on the workforce template.
31. Data in
operational
systems
Yes
32. Plans for
collecting this
data from
operational
systems
33. If the data
was not
collected,
what would
the
consequences
be
There would be no access to current 'actual number in
post' numbers which will include those that have not
been recorded - e.g. due to being incorrectly coded on
ESR, delays in contract signing or NMC registration.
Accurate information is needed in order that there is
close monitoring of performance against plans in the
final stage of the project and recovery actions
identified where necessary - regular reports to the
Secretary of State for Health are required and this
data is needed in order to supply these. By collecting
accurate up-to-date information with additional
intelligence, issues will be flagged up at a regional and
national level rapidly allowing time for recovery
actions to be put in place. This is particularly
important due to it being the final phase of the project
with limited time available to ensure that the
workforce at the required number by September 2015.
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34. Is there an
impact
assessment or
business case
for this
collection? If
so please
attach
No
35. Process
required for
others to go
through to
obtain the
data
A process is underway to determine proactive data
sharing approach with key partner organisations
36. Keywords
Health Visiting, Workforce
37. National /
Official
statistic
38. Method
used to store
the data
39. Why
sampling is
not used
Sampling is not being used because we need accurate
numbers to measure progress against the target and
detailed low level analyses will be required
40. Details of
any pilots
The London team have developed and tested the
template within the region initially. There has been a
pilot collection of the dataset in February / March
2014, with the collection template tested and
developed in collaboration with regional colleagues.
41. Equalities
dimensions
used in the
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collection
42. Policy that
the collection
supports
43. IG Data
type