Register DeskDemo

Overnight, North ValeBehind the scenesExtracts arrive from GP clinical systems, community services, the hospital, death registrations and practice lists. Each is loaded, checked for completeness and matched on the NHS number, which never leaves the secure platform.What is automatedCollecting, loading and checking every extract, every night.Could go furtherAlert the practice when its extract fails, before the numbers go out.

  1. 02:10GP recordsclinical events, 24 practicesLoaded
  2. 02:45Community servicescontacts and rehabLoaded
  3. 03:30HospitalA&E and admissionsLoaded
  4. 04:05DeathsregistrationsLoaded
  5. 04:40Practice listswho is registered whereLoaded
23 of 24 practice extracts in. Practice 17's is missing, so its last good extract is used and every figure for it is marked.

Today An analyst downloads extracts and rebuilds the register in spreadsheets each quarter.

Patient 4172, 68Behind the scenesYearly snapshots only show who is on a practice's register today. Rebuilding from every event keeps the first diagnosis, corrects codes entered in error, and follows the patient when they move practice.In this demoInvented patient and dates. The rebuild rules are the kind we have built for real registers.What it achievesNew diagnoses are counted once, trends stay true across years, and nobody falls off the register by moving.

20182019202020212022202320242025
  1. 2018 COPD diagnosed at Practice 07
  2. 2020 COPD marked resolved in error
  3. 2021 Re-coded as COPD after spirometry
  4. 2023 Moved to Practice 12
  5. 2025 Two admissions for exacerbation
Yearly snapshots saya new diagnosis in 2023
Events rebuildon the register since 2018

436 patients the snapshots counted as new this year had simply moved practice.

573 were truly new diagnoses.

Achievement by practice, % of patients, first 12 of 24Behind the scenesEach measure is a rule over the rebuilt register: who is in the denominator, what counts, and in which window. 40 measures in 8 groups, each split by deprivation, ethnicity, age, sex and neighbourhood.AssumptionThe measure set is ours, of the kind primary care reports on COPD. For a real build it is checked line by line against the current national indicators.Could go furtherThe same pipeline carries asthma, diabetes, heart failure and frailty registers.

DiagnosisSeverityReviewVaccinationSmokingTreatmentRehabilitationOutcomes
Practice 018578828575898785
Practice 028179858683819077
Practice 036863657263616354
Practice 049088937883839290
Practice 058073899174778884
Practice 065355715259596858
Practice 075566537361665768
Practice 087176655969756468
Practice 095643584437465045
Practice 108767686978736988
Practice 116684868781707868
Practice 128490728388768878

Practice 09 averages 47% against 72% across the area.

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2 or more flare-ups in 90 days and no review in 12 months

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Breathless, never referred to rehab

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Discharged, no review within 6 weeks

323 patients this month, once 44 who meet more than one rule are counted onceBehind the scenesPlain rules find who is due something. A risk score, trained on past admissions in the area, puts first the patients most likely to be admitted in the next 90 days. Every row shows its reasons.AssumptionThe score here is invented. A real one is tested on past data before anyone relies on it.What it achievesClinicians see who to call first and why, instead of a dashboard to interpret.

  1. Patient 992580, Practice 05Breathless, no rehab2 flare-ups, no review
  2. Patient 112578, Practice 122 flare-ups, no reviewA&E twice
  3. Patient 394985, Practice 09No flu vaccineA&E twice
  4. Patient 782968, Practice 093 steroid coursesDischarged 9 days ago
  5. Patient 542486, Practice 09Discharged 9 days ago
  6. Patient 138677, Practice 03A&E twice2 flare-ups, no review

To Practice 09, drafted for the clinical lead

43 of your patients with COPD need something this month.

  • Ordered by who to see first, with the reason on every row
  • Links open each patient in your clinical system
  • Your practice is behind the area on most measures
Behind the scenesThe worklist goes through the channel the practice already uses. A clinician decides who is contacted and how; the system only orders the list and shows the reasons.Could go furtherBook reviews straight into practice clinics, and track who was seen at the next run.

Four weeks later

61% of the area's list reviewed (modelled). The next run removes them and adds the newly due.

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patients on the register

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measures, current every night

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patients on this month's worklist

0%

reviewed within four weeks (modelled)

Board paper, drafted from the same numbersBehind the scenesA language model writes the narrative from the measures and the worklist only, and every figure in it is checked against the tables before it is shown. The lead edits and approves it.AssumptionThe paper replaces about 30 hours of analyst work a quarter with about 2 hours of review. Modelled.

Across 40 measures, COPD care in North Vale averages 72%. Practice 09 is furthest behind, at 47%, across most groups. This month 323 patients were identified for action.

COPD register, North Vale

8,251

patients, 40 measures

Interactive demo

A disease register, rebuilt and put to work.

Watch it run in 94 seconds, or click through at your own pace. The i buttons show what happens behind the scenes.