Publish date: 19 February 2025
Mersey Care has a strategic intention to transform care using data and insights, recognising data as a vital tool for decision making, performance and quality improvement. Central to this is ensuring that staff in a wide variety of operational, clinical and supporting roles are able to both access data efficiently, and to use that data effectively.
Your Voice, Your Change conversations have highlighted the barriers that many colleagues face when accessing data, and when piecing together reporting and analysis.
In response we would like to draw your attention to three significant areas of ongoing improvement.
Introducing Data Academy
Mersey Care’s new Data Academy is aimed at colleagues who work with any kind of data for over five hours per week and has been introduced to support your development and future proof your data skills. It is a fully funded programme which could help you to work more efficiently. Find out more about the Data Academy here and apply by 28 February to join the April 2025 cohort.
Other more technical data apprenticeships are also available, and top tips for working with data are signposted on the YourInsights training page.
Improved access to reporting
YourInsights is a quicker way for staff to find and open existing business intelligence reports. This easy to use platform opens in your web browser and provides access to a wide range of workforce, finance, operational and quality reports, with keyword search and favouriting features. Find out more about YourInsights here, including links to training guides, FAQs and drop-in sessions.
Requests for report access and ad-hoc information can continue to be submitted via the BI Hub, as a central contact point for the BI service.
Improved functionality of reporting
Throughout 2025, the reports on YourInsights are being refreshed into a smaller set of interactive dashboards. These will provide instant access to data which is fully joined up across teams and services, and is presented in one consistent format. Find out more about the Our People dashboard here, including links to training guides and drop-in sessions.
For another example of improved reporting, managers and budget holders can now access finance dashboards, available on YourInsights.