Understanding needs, personalising services
The best commissioning decisions require the best management information
Population Care Manager (PCM) is a secure web based system that brings together all key data sources relevant to care services and provides a wide range of useful analyses to support planning and performance management.
PCM provides the information and tools required to:
- agree targets for Local Area Agreements
- prepare, refresh and augment your JSNA
- integrate delivery plans across different services
- design personalised targeted interventions
- help reduce costs in the future
Modelling populations
- Compare your population to other areas
- Integrate official national statistics with local records
- Compare socio-economic, health and social-care data
- Benchmark outcomes against areas with similar populations
Understanding local needs and inequalities
- Identify high needs groups
- Measure access to services and outcomes
- Segment populations by geography or social deprivation
- Compare needs and access across different communities
- Map boundary data - Source: 2001 Census, Output Area Boundaries. Crown copyright 2004. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO.
Forecasting and scenario planning
- Examine how shifting demographics will affect demand
- Compare scenarios for different intervention strategies
- Model prevalence for future population growth scenarios
- Model change over time