Briefing / Mental Health PLICS toolkit briefing
To provide reasons for using patient level information and costing systems and to illustrative examples of information that can be derived from PLICS to support mental health trusts turn data generated by PLICS into powerful intelligence
Good cost and activity data at the service user level can help health economies to understand variations in care between different service users, helping to optimise service delivery.
Whilst all NHS organisations have now implemented patient level information and costing systems (PLICS), the use of the data is at an early stage in many mental health trusts. Some have asked how can they turn their copious PLICS data into useful information.
The HFMA Healthcare Costing for Value Institute has developed this PLICS toolkit to support members turn the data generated by PLICS into powerful intelligence. It is hoped that by sharing the toolkit examples with other staff within their organisation, members can sell the benefits of PLICS to those who are currently less well engaged.
We hope that you will find our PLICS toolkit for mental health services helps you explore how you can maximise the value of PLICS data within your organisation.
In 2017/18 we plan to publish a separate toolkit for community services, as well as a second toolkit for acute services.
If you have ideas, comments or examples that you would like to share, please email [email protected]
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