Welcome to Reducing Violence in our Community: Emergency Department Datasharing.
This website is designed to give you all the tools you need to understand and set up local Datasharing arrangements using an Anonymised Assault Victim Dataset between your local Emergency Departments (EDs) and the Community Safety Partnership.
Sharing anonymised data is supported by the Home Office and the Department of Health and by these health, community safety and policing professional bodies.
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Adopting the recommended Minimum Dataset described here - which is collected by ED Reception staff for all victims of violent crime - will allow local Police, Licensing Officers and the Community Safety Partnership to make a tangible difference to the levels of violent assaults in your area; and improve the safety of everyone in our communities.
Below you will find a range of resources to help your local partnership move forward. The resources are all free to use. Please share them with other people in your local partner organisations.
They are split into three sections:
SECTION 1: ON-LINE TRAINING
This is a link to a modular based interactive e-learning tool (LINK TO FOLLOW IN NOVEMBER 2011) hosted on our behalf by the National Community Safety Network. The module is accredited by these organisations:
If you are a member of one of these organisations you can earn Continuing Professional Development credits by completing the tool.
The module introduces the concept of Emergency Department Datasharing and its benefits. It includes short quizzes and tests on what you have learnt and includes a template for planning what you do next as a result of your learning.
This straightforward PowerPoint presentation - ED Datasharing Training Pack - can be used with hospital staff, community safety partnership members, victims representatives, senior decision makers and others as a training tool to introduce them to the subject and think about your collective next steps.
SECTION 2: TOOLS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
These PDF tools will help you to plan and start delivering local Datasharing; or to refresh and move forward your current arrangements if they are not yet producing the results you expect.
The National Recommended Minimum Dataset The College of Emergency Medicine
This dataset is the minimum requirement of the Home Office and Dept. of Health for new partnerships.
Steps to Establishing Datasharing Written by David Sheehan from Dept of Health.
Structures and Roles: NHS and Community Safety in England CPI's handout for all staff and partners to understand what other partners organsiational structures look like.
Confidentiality and Datasharing Flow CPI's handout explains the data collection process through a flow diagram and the considerations around confidentiality.
Alcohol-related crime and disorder datasharing: guidance for local partnerships (extract) John Tierney & Dick Hobbs (Home Office Online Report 08/03)
Confidentiality for Doctors The General Medical Council's guidance to medical staff.
Sample Information Sharing Protocol Liverpool John Moore's University Centre for Public Health. Anonymised data can be shared legally between all partners. It doesn't require a local protocol, however some partnerships like to formalize their arrangements. This document is a potential template to use if you want to.
Become a problem solving crime analyst 55 steps in 55 minutes UCL’s Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science. A PowerPoint explaining the benefits of crime analysis.
ACTION PLANNING FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP:
To help you move forward as a partnership these templates Partnership Action Planning Template ; Partnership Readiness Audit Tool and Partnership Self-evaluation Tool have been agreed with Home Office and used by CPI in workshops with Partnerships across the country as a first step in agreeing action to establish local Datasharing schemes.
And here's an example of a good completed plan by a Partnership Completed Action Plan
SECTION 3: EVIDENCING THE BENEFITS
Here are a number of academic and evidence based articles and reports that help to demonstrate the benefits of ED Datasharing to a range of audiences that might need convincing.
Effectiveness of anonymised information sharing and use in health service, police, and local government partnership for preventing violence related injury: experimental study and time series analysis British Medical Journal research publication
Effective NHS Contributions to Violence Prevention: The Cardiff Model Evaluation by Cardiff University
Accident and Emergency Data Sharing in London: Early Lessons for Policy and Practice Government Office for London
Development, utilisation, and importance of accident and emergency department derived assault data in violence management Emergency Medicine Journal
Process evaluation of data sharing between Emergency Departments and Community Safety Partnerships in the South East Home Office
This website is hosted by The Centre for Public Innovation. We have been commissioned by Home Office to support the development of local Datasharing. If you have any questions about these resources or you want more help to move forward contact Mark Napier on 020 7922 7820 mark.napier@publicinnovation.org.uk
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