The Burden Advice and Assessment Service (BAAS) is an ORGANISATION.
The Burden Advice and Assessment Service carries out many of the functions of the former Review of Central Returns (ROCR) Service, however the Burden Advice and Assessment Service looks in greater depth at the impact and cost of burden on the NHS and how this can be minimised.
The Burden Advice and Assessment Service:
- provide an assessment process to validate the level of burden incurred by introducing new information standards, collections and extractions
- provide recommendations to the Standardisation Committee for Care Information (SCCI) advising on ways of minimising the burden of data collections, standards and extracts
- conducts a three year rolling review of all national and local collections provides
- a Data Collections Burden Reduction (DCBR) service
- offers advice and sets the criteria to the developers of new data collections, information standards, and extractions
For further information on the Burden Advice and Assessment Service, see the Health and Social Care Information Centre website at: Burden Advice and Assessment Service (BAAS).
This supporting information is also known by these names:
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| shortname | BAAS |