NIC 440574 D9V9P Response.pdf

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25 March 2021

Our ref: NIC-440574-D9V9P

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re: Information Request – Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000

Thank you for your email dated 03 March 2021 requesting the following information:

“What was the date that the NHS Digital Team was disbanded ( NIC-289485-M3V8K )

Further to FoI NIC-268832-K2H5B
- Please provide the P/O for payments to Apperta listed in the response.
- Please provide detailed description of the work packages funded
- Please provide detail of the programe these work packages were aligned to

Further to FoI NIC-300673-J6N9W
- Please provide the P/O for payments to Apperta listed in the response.
- Please provide detailed description of the work packages Apperta were commission to deliver
- Please provide detail of the programme the work packages Apperta were commissioned to deliver
were aligned to
- Please provide the P/O for payments to AB EHR Digital listed in the response.
- Please provide detailed description of the work packages AB EHR Digital were commission to
deliver
- Please provide detail of the programme the work packages AB EHR Digital were commissioned to
deliver were aligned to”

We have considered your request and in accordance with S.1 (1) of the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA) I can confirm that we hold the information.

We can confirm that the NHS Digital Transformation Team was disbanded in March 2019.

Please find below a list of all payments made to The Apperta Foundation and AB EHR Digital which
relate to FoI NIC-268832-K2H5B and FoI NIC-300673-J6N9W.

We can confirm that the payments listed below were made in relation to the “Code4Health”
programme.
www.digital.nhs.uk

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Invoice & PO
Supplier
Amount
Description of the Work
Number
INV000014 /
The Apperta
4,900.00
Provision of assurance training between 27/11/17 – 30/11/17
PO25026552
foundation CIC
INV000020 /
The Apperta
24,750.00  Work Package WPT-09: Clinical Knowledge Manager. The requirement:
PO125027014
foundation CIC
Provision of tooling to support Code4Health Communities to define, publish and agree clinical information models.
INV000019 /
The Apperta
23,267.00  Work Package WPT1-10 Community Innovation Portal. The requirement:
PO125027012
foundation CIC
Provision of tooling to enable gathering of requirements from Code4Health Communities and the wider system
PO125027013
The Apperta
22,950.00  Work Package WPT1-08 OPENeP Safety Case. The requirement:
foundation CIC
To procure services to develop a safety case for publication for the Code4Health Open ePMA Community OPENeP product. The
Clinical Safety case will include:

- Safety Workshop(s) as required
- Hazard Register
- Safety Case
- All other appropriate Clinical Safety Case documentation as required by the Hazard Register and Safety Case

The above will enable the product to be developed to meet SCCI0129 and SCCI0160 standard.
INV1080 /
AB EHR Digital
£5,000.00  Provision of bespoke software development of Eyedraw doodles
PO125026111
INV1104 /
AB EHR Digital
£5,000.00  Design & Development of alpha for canned plots including wireframes
PO125026320
INV1096 /
AB EHR Digital
£15,000.00  Work Package WPT2-07 Opthanology User Interface Development. The requirement:
PO125026715
Design a new user interface takes to take advantage of CSS3 grid layouts and a revised DOM (document object model). This work
package covers modifications to the user view of the examination event in view and edit modes, the clinic/operating list view/ injections
events and laser events

The medication change element has also been designed using the OE3 format. The concept of child element has been removed so that
the element layout is flat and not hierarchical.
INV1097 /
AB EHR Digital
£15,000.00  Work Package WPT2-07 (Part 2) Innovations in Digital Opthanology User Interface
PO125027194
Enhancement. The requirement:
Development of Oescape views for medical retina and glaucoma. Creation of management tools for delegated prescribing and ordering
of investigations.
INV1092 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT2-11 Generic OS BI Reporting tools. The requirement:
PO125026710
To develop the Code4Health OpeneObs product, based on the Apperta Foundation gold standard Open eObs github repository to;
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Develop, Integrate Open eObs with the Community Innovation Portal
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Develop, Integrate and Implement Open eObs with Cheshir eWirral Partnership (CWP) NHS Foundation Trust systems as a
two monthpilot to meet CWP pilot specification.
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Release all developments undertaken as part of the implementation in the Apperta Foundation Open eObs Github Repository
following the Apperta Foundation standard product release licence, copyright and terms and condition requirements

INV1093 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT-2-10 Generic OS BI reporting tools - Data Browser. The requirement:
125026700
The creation of a data browser within the Open Eyes solution specifically:
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Data browser: this will allow the user to generate lists of patients on the basis of simple queries with Boolean logic. The user
interface design will be included in this package to ensure that the design is intuitive. The primary output will be as lists of
patients and relevant variables. Simple plotting of the output will be required using template establishes in R1.
INV1094 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT2-09 Generic OS BI Reporting tools - Canned Reports. The requirement:
125026746
The creation of a number of reports and highlight charts within the Open Eyes solution specifically:

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Canned reports. These are designed templates for each of the 3 major specialties (Cataract, Glaucoma and Medical Retina).
These will comprise some limited filtering functionality- e.g. by date/ consultant/service/site to allow clinical views that
encompass a service or single clinic.
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The outputs will use the High charts plotting suite (as used for Oescape)
INV1095 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT-2-08 Innovations in Digital Ophthalmology - Data management. The
PO125026745
requirement:
The creation of Data Manager functionality within the OpenEyes solution, these should include:

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Data Manager Design
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Data Manager Tools
INV1098 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT1-24 Innovations in Digital Ophthalmology - DM+D Compliance. The
PO125026695
requirement:
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Develop an enhancement to the handling of medications in OpenEyes.
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The OpenEyes solution must be compliant with the DM+D standards, to the Virtual Medicinal Product (VMP) level.
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Production of a new import routine and changes to the existing search functions. It will include combining the formulary and
'medications' tables into 1.
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Use of the existing API from DMD would be advantageous. This should be able to provide AMP/DM+D details.
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It should be possible for instances to be updated from the DM+D dataset regularly and without much (or any) manual input
(e.g. a cron job).
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It should be possible to search by brand name. The route and recommended frequency of medication use can be pulled from
the DM+D API.
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Thought and design should be given to the future need to integrate with other larger EPR systems for prescribing (e.g.
Allscripts SCM).

INV1099 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT1-25 Innovations in Digital Ophthalmology - Medications Management using
PO125026744
DM+D. The requirement:

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Development new OpenEyes element to allow medications to be managed.
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This element is separate from the existing medications element and be used to drive prescriptions. The current medication
element only describes the medications used and cannot be used to change the medications.
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The medication management event is critical to updating the time of use for medications in Oescape glaucoma and medical
retina. It also puts in place the frame work to provide alerts for adverse drug interactions.
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It should provide a feature to reconcile the medications notated in the existing medications elements and turn them into
authorised items.
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This work should allow medication lists to be pulled (and reconciled) from various sources, including the Spine / Summary
Care Record and other EPR systems (e.g Allscripts)
INV1100 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT1-26 Generic OS BI Reporting tools - Forms & Checklists
PO125026716

The creation of forms and checklist functionality within the OpenEyes solution, these should include:

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A Forms Generator
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Creation of custom operation booking forms that capture complex requirements (e.g. oculoplastic booking forms)
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WHO checklists
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General surgical checklists
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Ward transfer checklists
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NICE guidance checklists
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Clinic outcome forms It should be possible for these to be created and edited in house, with a rich set of options and defaults
selectable. It should be possible to then attach these forms to pathways. All forms and checklists to be sharable.
INV1101 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT1-27 Generic OS BI Reporting tools - Forms Data Manager. The requirement:
PO125026726

The creation of functionality to facilitate the creation of user/service templates within the OpenEyes solution, these should include:

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Tools to support creation of user or service specific templates. These would be used for surgeons to create default returns for
events such as surgery or laser.

INV1102 /
AB EHR Digital
£20,000.00  Work Package WPT 2-06 Innovations in Digital Ophthalmology - Laser Enhancements. The
PO125026717
requirement:

Improvements to the laser features in OpenEyes to add the following areas of functionality:

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Laser procedures can be added as letter short codes.
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Laser procedures visible in the patient summary pop-up• Reduction of duplication in the laser management child elements
and the laser ‘op note’ (child elements will be deprecated in UI3.0).
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Ability for units to manage all laser operators, laser machines (including dual machines) and procedure types and orders in
the admin interface.
The laser ‘op note’ should have additional fields:

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Ability to handle ‘argon’ laser pre-treatment of an iridotomy;
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The number of shots per eye; The range of power settings used
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The duration of shots
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The spot size/s
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The number of spots
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The lens used
(Not all laser types will need all fields – this should be configurable from the admin interface. Free text should be supported)

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It should be possible to run reports of laser procedures and supervisors.
-  Glaucoma (iridocorneal) lasers procedures should be supported with an appropriate doodle (to cover Goniopuncture and
SLT)

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