What are we doing to improve NCMD and eCDOP?

by | Sep 24, 2019

Steps we are taking to improve NCMD and eCDOP

During the first few months after our launch, we received a lot of extremely valuable feedback from CDOPs who have been in touch with us directly to let us know of any difficulties or problems arising from the system. As a result of this, we will be undertaking a lot of development work on NCMD and eCDOP over the next few months. For details of these changes and improvements please visit our website. 

If you spot anything else which you feel could be improved or changed, send your recommendation to ncmd-programme@bristol.ac.uk. 

This includes: 

  • There will be some updates made to fields to make sure that the ones required for the LSCB1 return are mandatory in both the NCMD portal and eCDOP.
  • There will be changes to what you can enter in some fields to make it quicker for you to complete them. This will also help us with standardising outputs and thus with data analysis. For example, the birth weight field will be changed so you can only type numbers rather than numbers and letters in the field. We will also be requesting that the birth weight is recorded in grams only.
  • We are developing an additional functionality for eCDOP to allow a CDOP in the child’s area of death, to take ownership of a case and review it at their panel instead of at the CDOP of residence panel. This is to accommodate the new national guidance which states that by agreement between areas, another CDOP can panel the case if, for example, all the care has been received in that area.
  • A new organisation list of hospitals and hospices has been added. We were aware that the previous list was difficult for people to navigate and are pleased to have been able to respond to this feedback. We have worked hard to try and identify all the hospitals and hospices you may need to select. However, please let us know if there is one missing that you want us to add by emailing ncmd-programme@bristol.ac.uk.
  • The categorisation of death list will be re-ordered so it is in the same order as the on the statutory analysis form. It will also include exactly the same wording as on the analysis form including correction of spelling of the word “malignancy”.