Presentation from the ECDC 14th NMFP meeting organised by the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control - Stockholm, 12 - 13 May 2016

1. Next steps for the 2015 data
collection and reporting timeline
14th National Microbiology Focal Points meeting
Katrin Leitmeyer, Senior expert, Office of the Chief Scientist
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
14th NMFP, Stockholm, 12-13 May 2016

2. 1
Impact survey – NEW 2014
• We requested your feedback on dissemination and use of
the 2013 EU/EEA and the country reports.
– For a full feedback on the 22 responses don’t miss
tomorrow’s session 5 by Amanda and Signe!
• Encouraging comments made included, e.g.
– “Thank you…these reports are high quality and useful
documents for strengthening of laboratory capacities in the
future”.
– “Survey could be used to drive improvements through
laboratory networks and also through preparedness
assessments”.

3. 2
Feedback on
EULabCap tool and data collection
• Frequency of data collection
- “bi-annual versus annual ?”
• Indicator clarity and balance between extensiveness
and precision
– “Improve clarity and complexity of some indicators”.
– “Increase number of indicators for precision versus reduce
breadth”.
– “Focus on important weaknesses in the surveillance
systems”.

4. 3
Feedback on
EULabCap analysis and reporting
• Reporting format
– “Make analysis and report less complicated to increase
understanding and to make sense of the information”.
– “Focus annual reports on the major changes each year”.
– “Link analysis to resource allocation at country level”.
– “Consider translation to national language”.
• Timeliness of reporting
– “Need to make it more contemporary (i.e. 2015 report
available end of Q1 2016)”.

5. 4
Proposed changes - 2015 data entry tool
1. Changes agreed upon at this meeting – indicator scores.
2. Merge the Excel sheets into a single one.
3. Pre-populate the data entry sheet with 20 ECDC indicators
for 2015 (locked for editing) for your validation only
– disagreements could be documented either by email/ or
under “additional information”.
4. Pre-populate the data entry sheet with the 60 indicator
data for 2014 (locked for editing) for perusal as your
country reference.

6. 5
Proposed changes - 2015 data entry tool
- visualisation of previous year’s data
NEW data entry Previous year’s data

7. 6
Proposed timeline - 2015 EULabCap data
collection, analysis and reporting cycle
Publication of 2015 data report by June 2017

8. 7
For discussion and agreement
• Do you agree with the proposed timeline for next cycle of
EULabCap reporting ?
– Will you be able to report validated data within 6 weeks
(from January to mid February 2017)?
• Any suggestions for reporting the multiannual data and
trend analysis in the future?
– EU report
– Individual country reports