Clock Change - Data Quality & Standards

In the early hours of Sunday morning (30^th October), the clocks are due to go back an hour for the annual change to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) from British Summer Time (BST).

Amendment of the incidents is now led by the Data Quality & Standards Team and requires minimal input from the EOC staff on duty at the time. This is to ensure ALL incidents are accurately amended in time for the Trusts monthly reporting commitments.

Summary of process & EOCs responsibilities:

• DO NOT AMEND any incidents where the clock change has caused the times of an incident to be out of sync, regardless of the reporting issues this may cause.
• Continue to log any resource status times as the time they occur, including manual times, whether BST or GMT. This is to ensure all incidents are captured by the IntoZetta Data Quality tool.
• ALL times will be amended by the Data Quality & Standards team by end of Wednesday 2nd November (however some Cleric amendments may take longer - we aim to ensure all amendments are in place for monthly submissions).
• EOC/TOC staff are to refuse any external requests to amend incidents to remove reporting issues prior to Wednesday 2^nd November and should direct all reporting queries to the Data Quality & Standards inbox (dataquality@eastamb.nhs.uk).

Please direct any queries about the process, affected incidents, over the clock change period, to the Data Quality & Standards inbox as normal (dataquality@eastamb.nhs.uk).

Published 27th October 2022