A data analytics specialist has expanded a tool which is helping the NHS save money and proving vital for healthcare providers looking to better-plan their resources.
Keele University-based VUIT has created a unique online portal with customisable visuals providing masses of health and social care data on anything from A&E activity and performance to deprivation and mental health.
The resource – available via subscription – is helping Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) interrogate and understand population data giving decision makers a clear understanding of where there is a need so that they can focus resources in the best way.
It has just been expanded with the latest National Cost Collection data for the NHS. The data shows average unit costs of providing services to NHS patients in England and patient-level costs, a cost based on specific interactions a patient has and the events related to their healthcare activity.
Now offering three years’ worth of data in this field, VUIT’s visualisation tool allows users to view and compare costs and information for every NHS trust in England, identifying cost saving opportunities.
It also means VUIT can now provide the figures for pre, during and post Covid-19 pandemic years – 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22.
Adam Townsend, VUIT’s Chief Operating Officer, a former NHS Operations Director, above, said: “VUIT’s unique approach to pulling together and visualising data turns something which is usually complicated and difficult to understand into something much more powerful.
“We have over five billion data points available to help support insights functions, strategic decision making and help with risk stratification.
“One of the key benefits of the tool from an ICS perspective is to support the acute collaboration agenda.
“It gives leaders the facility to see how much activity of the same place is taking place across each of their providers allowing them to identify where services could potentially be merged or collaborations could be formed without the need for accessing patient-level data from all of the acutes.”
Also used by life sciences and med tech companies for exercises such as market validation, VUIT’s data is all GDPR compliant and available immediately via subscription. Users can choose to have as much or a little information as they want in the form of a full or part subscription or a one-off issue.
Daily Focus has previously reported on VUIT’s quick route to success after only being launched in May last year and already winning work big health organisations, as well as being a finalist in the Medilink Midlands Business Awards 2023.
