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TACCARD™
from THERAPYAUDIT Limited is a web-based data collection and audit tool that
has proven effectiveness in supporting CCARD condom distribution schemes.
Successfully used in a 3 borough pilot in London in support of the
Pan-London scheme, TACCARD is now being
rolled out to an additional 26 London Boroughs.
The
solution has the flexibility to enable collection of data from boroughs that
use the scheme as their primary collection system and boroughs that have
their own collection systems already in place and merely want to share /
provide data with the wider group.
The
benefit to young people is the ability to use multiple boroughs’ condom
distribution schemes while only registering once (subject to the borough
being a member of the scheme), thus reducing the time it takes to use the
service.
The
benefit to boroughs is in terms of sharing data collection as the system
enables all members of the scheme to consolidate condom distribution data.
Under the
scheme young people register once with their local borough. They are then
issued with their personal CCARD (which is also associated with the issuing
borough), and their basic demographic details are recorded on
TACCARD.
This card
can be used by young people to collect free condoms at any of hundreds of
issuing points around London which will include pharmacies, GP surgeries and
health centres, young family and youth support centres, schools and
colleges, youth offending services, as well as various charities. As the
card is assigned to a particular borough this provides the basis for the
cost of condoms that are issued to be recovered, and makes information on
take-up and usage available which helps to measure the value of the scheme.
The cards
that are issued use similar technology to TFL Oyster cards, and are ‘read’
by a reader attached to a laptop or PC at the issuing location. Each card
can also have a barcode and number printed on it so the cards can be used
without the need for a reader or where barcode scanners are available.
This makes the data
collection scheme highly portable, particularly when 3G technology is used
in laptops which enables data to be captured in
TACCARD
wherever a mobile 3G signal is available.
The
web-based technology behind TACCARD
enables it to act as a hub in the flow of information: between young people
who will benefit from the free condom distribution scheme; the boroughs who
are interested in tracking usage of the scheme; and other interested parties
such as health authorities who require reports on activities. The
registration point and the access point can be one and the same. Interfaces
also exist between TACCARD
and other systems such as Brook so that data
collected in those systems can be transferred to the
TACCARD database.
As
shown in the diagram, young people can register for a CCARD at a
registration point that will be within a particular borough’s geographical
area. Each borough has an unlimited user licence, and an unlimited number of
young person and encounter records can be added. When the young person
registers they are associated with the borough in which they register.
Subsequently they can access the CCARD service anywhere it is available, and
when they do so their CCARD is used to identify them, and an encounter
record created in TACCARD to record the
advice they have received. If the young person accesses the service at a
location within the borough they originally registered with, the
TACCARD user will be able to see all the
data recorded about the young person, but if the young person is accessing
the service in a neighbouring borough, only the encounter data can be
recorded. A borough will not see data for young people not registered
with it.
At
any time a licensed third party such as a Health Authority or Local
Authority can run reports on the collected data for audit purposes. For the
London scheme interfaces have been developed for other existing data
collection schemes such as Brook.
All
data entry is secured by a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) level of security.
Within the Service Level Agreement for each participating site the level of
support and maintenance with THERAPYAUDIT Limited is clearly identified.
Speedy support response can be provided for the
TACCARD database through THERAPYAUDIT’s BT N3 connection
should the TACCARD database be
hosted within the NHS network, although THERAPYAUDIT can provide a hosting
solution.
A
wide range of reports are available from
TACCARD. A sample report is shown
below.
Need more information? Call 0800 756
1087 or use our contact form.
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