Transcript Data systems - Health in Wales

Data systems
Nathan Lester
Public Health Information Manager
Introduction
• Identification of children to be measured
• Recording of height and weight at the school
• Database for storage of height / weight measures
• Monitoring at the local and national level
Identification of children to be
measured
• Some local authorities have timely and complete
central registers – but not all. Situation improving.
• Therefore school registers required
Question…
• How does the person taking the measures know
who is due to be measured?
•List on paper provided by school on the day?
•List provided by school to the Trust in advance?
Recording of height and weight
at the school
• On paper?
• Electronic?
•Laptop computer?
•Palmtop computer?
Recording of height and weight
at the school 2
• If electronic; pre-populated with children’s details,
such as:
•Name; sex; DoB
• Linked to scales?
• Networked to central database?
Database for storage of height /
weight measures
• Should a specific database be created, as in
England?
• Should we use the Trust Child Health Systems?
• How is it populated:
• Manual input (required if recording system in use at
the school is not electronic)
• Data upload at Trust premises?
• Networked direct from the school site?
Monitoring at the local and
national level
• Local authority / local health board level & allWales level based on place of residence
• Epidemiological / trend analysis
• National Community Child Health Database
• Annual report
How the system might work…
Parental
feedback
(on request)
School register
Trust
Child Health
System
Portable device
Report
National
Community Child
Health
Database
Any questions?