NPC Data Quality Update

May 2022 update

The need for quality, standardised data continues to support ongoing ‘digitisation’ of healthcare and suppliers are ensuring that they are making quality data available ready for when business returns to normal or for the urgent needs of today.  

Though the initial driver for the NPC a decade ago may have been compliance, a large proportion of the supplier community are reaping internal value from their data quality improvement focus. The recipient/buying community is also much more confident in being able to trust and use the data in a broader sense as a result of the improvements.

Based on their Data Quality Reports, the below organisations have achieved Platinum and Gold status, indicating that they have complete, accurate and regularly maintained data within the National Product Catalogue. We congratulate them all on this achievement and encourage their trading partners to maximise their utilisation of the data that is available within the NPC.

On behalf of industry, congratulations to the Platinum and Gold status suppliers (May 2022)
 

If you would like to understand more about the National Product Catalogue (NPC) and why data standards and ‘data synchronisation’ are so valuable to healthcare, visit the National Product Catalogue in Healthcare webpage.