PRIMIS is a specialist team of health informaticians within the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham.

Their work is always driven by data. This in-person Visit delved into how PRIMIS help practitioners take a systematic approach to using data to improve patient care, and introduced examples of how data tools, quality improvement methodologies and outreach can be combined to create a learning health system.

On the Visit, we found out about the learning health system approach and how PRIMIS used this to scale and spread an improvement intervention to over 41% of GP practices in England to reduce prescribing errors in primary care, with over 2,350 healthcare professionals trained to deliver the intervention.

This in-person Visit to PRIMIS, a specialist team of health informaticians within the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham, explored how the team developed PINCER. PINCER is a data led quality improvement project that has had impressive patient outcomes and has been replicated nationally using a franchising model with the Academic Health Science Networks.

This Visit included:

• Learning more about learning health systems, and how the PINCER project applied this model.
• An introduction to specific examples of how data tools, quality improvement methodologies and outreach can be combined to create a learning health system.
• Learning how PINCER used a train the trainer model to train over 2,500 pharmacists to deliver the intervention in over 41% of GP practices in England.
• Break out discussions on specific themes related to learning health systems and the PINCER improvement approach.
• Understanding how PRIMIS  approached scaling and replicating the PINCER intervention for different localities, including what elements of the approach remained consistent and which flexed to local contexts.

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