The PSCAL Service Level Agreement Manager (SLAM) is an activity and income contract setting and monitoring tool which complies completely with NHS Payment by Results (PbR) methodology. However, SLAM goes much further than this in allowing Commissioners to plan and monitor local agreements for non-PbR activity and arrangements. 

SLAM will take a Specialty and Point of Delivery (POD) activity plan then, using a specified out-turn dataset, devolve a Specialty/POD/HRG plan and, using a combination of national tariff for PbR activity and local trust specific tariffs for non-PbR activity, will calculate a planned income for each Trust. Actual activity is imported from the NHS FCE to spell converter output. During the import the specialist top-ups, excess bed-days, non-elective non-emergency activity and POD categories are calculated and assigned to each Trust. Being able to import this data without the need to manipulate it before importing into SLAM saves time and eradicates errors. Actual activity can be imported with patient details, GP, GP practice and consultant information. In addition to which there are five user-defined fields.

For the Trust’s SLA contracts, actual versus plan in activity and price to the lowest level (HRG) can easily be accessed.

Results can be viewed either in:

• The data browser screens, where data is easily exported to Excel
• Standard reports
• User defined reports

SLAM offers many features to accommodate local arrangements such as:

• Marginal tariffs
• Tolerances
• Phasing profiles
• Trend prediction

For Commissioners fortunate enough to contract with Provider Trusts that use SLAM, they will benefit from being able to receive the agreed contract drilling down to patient level on a monthly basis, by means of a simple extract from the Trust’s model in SLAM that is easily rebuilt in the Commissioner version of SLAM.

Please download the brochure here: SLAM for Commissioners

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