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

Tender description

Lot 1: 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. The system is required to include: — a GP Practice based software utility that will extract, analyse, and present data held within the host GP clinical systems based on data queries deployed to the utility as and when required, — a query authoring tool to enable NHS Wales (or the supplier under the instruction of NHS Wales) to author and deploy data queries to the GP Practice software utility in the form of individual queries or suites of queries contained within specific modules, — the ability to integrate with the host GP clinical systems to enable the provision of enhanced functionality such as prompts and alerts etc., — a secure transfer mechanism for the export of aggregated and non aggregated practice data to various data recipients, — data submission management; and — the provision of a central data repository hosted within the NHS Wales Data Centre.