Care Home Data Review Summary Report

Aims of Review

The Care Home Data Review (CHDR) is multi-agency (Scottish Government, Public Health Scotland, and Care Inspectorate) review of the national data landscape relating to care homes for adults. It aims to ensure a coherent suite of data collections, reduce the burden on data providers and meet the existing and emerging needs of data users.

Key elements of the project are to:

• Review the care home data landscape and consider improvements to the content, quality and frequency of current data collections to ensure stakeholder needs are met as comprehensively and efficiently as possible. This will include considering alternative methods of data collection and areas for data rationalisation.
• Consider the asks of data providers (what, how & when) to ensure we both maximise the benefits of data provision and balance the need for evidence with respondent burden.
• Identify and prioritise actions to address any key gaps in care home data.
• Consider information governance issues and ethical review processes for care home data.

In addition, the review will consider how best to ensure data gathering is flexible/responsive to meet emerging data requirements and will recommend a process to ensure any new data requirements are considered at a strategic level and met in an appropriate way.