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Minimum Operational Dataset Update

Workshops from Digital Social Care on implementing a Minimum Operational Dataset.

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16 Jun 2023
Minimum Operational Dataset Update
 
The Minimum Operational Data Set (MODS) exists to ensure a consistent baseline collection of direct care data by CQC registered adult social careproviders. The primary objective of MODS is to establish a minimum data requirement for adult social care providers and the suppliers of information systems. Implementing a Minimum Operational Dataset for adult social care also aims to:
  • Ensure a baseline for data collection is established across providers to ensure data collected supports the delivery of quality care.
  • Enable consistent data formats and a ‘common glue’ that allows care actors to share data safely and provide more joined up care.
  • Reflect regulatory requirements and establish, share and communicate ‘best practice' for data.
  • Reduce burden, including duplication of data entry and overlapping reporting requirements.
  • Align with existing standards being implemented across the wider health and social care system, to reduce inefficiency and ‘reinventing the wheel’.
  • Establish a data model that integrates with existing healthcare models but has been design specifically for social care.
  • Support innovation and integration of assistive technology.
MODS was published as a beta in March 2023 for care providers and information systems suppliers. It aims to provide interoperable building blocks that can be brought together toform a digital social care record. For more information see Minimum Operational Dataset Guidance
 
Approach:
 
MODS beta was developed over the following phases:
  • Discovery: >100 stakeholders from professional bodies, system suppliers, the public, advocacy groups and central gov were consulted to identify key challenges, use cases and personas for the development of a terminology product for adult social care. A landscape assessment of the existing standards and national data collections was completed and published through data.digitalsocialcare
  • Draft: the MODS draft was launched in October 2022 and a 90 day consultation period followed where the team conducted individual interviews, as well as a series of webinars to collect feedback and present the model.
  • Alpha: the MODS alpha specification alongside a conceptual model was launched in January 2022 and a 90 day consultation period followed where the team conducted individual interviews, as well as a series of webinars to collect feedback and present the model.
  • Beta: the MODS beta specification alongside a conceptual model and guidance was launched in March 2022.
NHS Transformation Directorate are currently conducting a final consultation to collect feedback and feed into the development of a version 1.0.0 of the MODS specification.
 
For more information on the standards development approach click here
 
Next Steps:
 
v1 of MODS is aiming to be published as a standard for assured social care suppliers in October 2023.
 
NHSE Transformation Directorate are asking the community to provide feedback between the 1st of June 2023 and the 31st of July. The team will be running four workshops to present the known gaps, as well as an open forum to discuss areas of the standards.
 
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