Using the Data Quality Dashboard to view data

The Data Quality Dashboard can be accessed from the main NWRS web page. 

You can also download aggregate underlying data files from the ODS files.  

Please check the downloadable dashboard files these include additional detail at organisation level that is not shown in the dashboard. If you are still unsure why your DQ dashboard scores are not 100% please contact us by emailing [email protected] (quoting ‘NWRS Dashboard Support’ in the subject line, and including your organisation name, ODS Code and details of your enquiry).

Our Data Quality Dashboard shows a wealth of information on completeness of data fields, and further metrics are available in the underlying data. The dashboard and dashboard files are refreshed weekly.

You can also view published data for GP practices or Primary Care networks.

We also send engagement statistics to NHSE regional leads for dissemination by the NHSE regional leads. These include last login and modified dates, and whether a PCN or practice has registered users. These will soon be included in the Data Quality dashboard.

If you are still unsure why your DQ dashboard scores are not 100% please contact us at [email protected] (quoting ‘NWRS Dashboard Support’ in the subject line, and including your organisation name, ODS code and details of your enquiry).

The likely cause of this is that no staff records have been entered into the PCN part of NWRS (rather, they are recorded either under the practice(s) or as PCN Contracted Services). Another cause would be if all records in the PCN module were still marked as ‘In progress’ rather than ‘Submitted’ (see the information on the ‘Status’ column in the ‘Using the service to view data’ section).

If you are a data provider with an NWRS account, you can check this by looking at the staff records in the relevant parts of NWRS (GP Practice, PCN and PCN Contracted Services). Please ensure your staff are recorded correctly.

All roles funded through the PCN should be included in the PCN module on NWRS, including the Clinical Director.  They may be recorded instead in the PCN Contracted Services module if the organisation does not know who will be fulfilling that role on a regular basis. However, it is expected that most roles (including the Clinical Director) will have named staff, even if fulfilled on a fixed term contract basis, so these should be recorded in the PCN module.

The PCN Contracted Services module is not currently shown in the dashboard, but this is in development. In the meantime, you can identify where roles may have been wrongly attributed to PCN Contracted Services by comparing the underlying PCN dashboard figures with those in the most recently published Primary Care Network Workforce statistics. These provide total counts of PCN staff including contracted services.

Downloadable data files are available in comma separated value (.csv) file format on the main NWRS page. These contain much more detail than presented in our Data Quality Dashboard.