Some of you may have seen a 'score' assigned to your records within the NHS App, this is called the 'Adjusted Clinical Groups System' or ACG which has been used across the NHS since 2009. It something that has recently been applied to our clinical system.
Please do not be worried by anything you see, this is just a tool to collate all your health data from the practice for us and our Integrated Care Board (ICB) to better assess our population health needs.
No patient identifiable data is accessible outside of the practice, only anonymised data such as specific health conditions which will assist the ICB in prioritising services within the locality.
ACG will help to:
- Profile the health needs of local populations to support commissioning and service redesign activities.
- Profile disease and morbidity burden across a population to support public health and planning activities.
- Make comparisons across a locality or ICB that take into account differences in case-mix between GP practices. For example, case-mix adjusted comparisons could be made on the prevalence of particular diseases or utilisation measures, such as prescribing or emergency admission rates.
- Identify high-risk individuals for inclusion in care management programmes that can help reduce adverse outcomes (for example, unnecessary emergency admissions).
- Identify people at lower levels of the risk pyramid who may be suitable for other care programmes offered within primary care.
