The work on HRGs was done by Nigel Brayley at Colchester.
Let us know how you get on with Symphony.
> you may have heard that the government intend to include A&E in the
> "payment
> by results" scheme by 2006.
>
> I think this roughly means you would be commissioned to provide care
> for a
> certain number of a certain type of patients at a set (national
> average) fee
> per person, or something like that. I presume this means we need a more
> comprehensive and consistent (nationally agreed) data set on things like
> diagnosis and investigations in A&E than our current state. I understand
> there is something called the commissioning data set which includes this
> sort of thing for A&E but whether based on ICD10 or what I don't know.
> I also know there was a project to identify HRGs 3-4 years ago, but I
> never
> saw any results.
>
> Does anyone have
> a) any nationally agreed clinical data set for A&E
> b) knowledge of the HRG for A&E project and its outcome
> c) any more understanding than me
> cheers R
> PS we are going live with symphony and don't want to change our look up
> tables again in a year for this .
>
>
>
>
> Ruth Brown
> Consultant in Emergency Medicine
> 0207 886 6574
>
>
Best wishes,
Rowley Cottingham
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