• The Information Services Division (ISD) of the National Health Service (NHS) Scotland produces around 200 official and national statistics publications each year.
• Traditional publication format is a static pdf document with accompanying excel tables.
• Production uses proprietary software and is time-consuming, involving extensive manual formatting and checking.

• Focus groups and interviews with over 10 different user groups.
• Determined user experiences of existing product and how the new product design could meet their needs.
• Created user stories which influenced the features of the minimum viable product.

• Acute Hospital Activity and Beds publication released in December 2017.

Acute Activity data explorer

R Shiny code

• To determine how the explorer works in practice, and identify potential faults or usability issues.
• In general, feedback indicates that the core
  functionality of the explorer is highly usable.

• ISD website
• R knowledge within ISD:
  • R training at an organisation level
  • R Style Guide
  • Blank R Project and R Shiny templates
  • Resources
• Consistency of Shiny dashboards:
  • Share R Shiny code for the original data explorer
  • Current development: design guidance
• IT infrastructure

• Psychiatric Inpatient Activity publication was released on the new platform in September 2018.
• Focus this year is on user research and automating the production process using Reproducible Analytical Pipelines.
• Toolkit and buddy system to enable this.