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@sheffielddoc. Flow Cost Quality: Transforming non-elective healthcare for older people . Tom Downes 4 th March 2014. “Right First Time programme is delivering real benefits to patients and the transformation journey across the health and social care system has begun…”.
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@sheffielddoc Flow Cost Quality: Transforming non-elective healthcare for older people Tom Downes 4th March 2014
“Right First Time programme is delivering real benefits to patients and the transformation journey across the health and social care system has begun…”
Older, frail patients ….part of the NHS must be custom-tuned to their needs. Roy Lilley, The Guardian 29th May 2013
How do others design complex systems? Toyota Oobeya (Big Room)
First find a room
The Big Room in Action Community Services manager Social Services Manager Physiotherapist Discharge Liaison Service Improvement General Manager For Medicine Secretary GSM Matron Physiotherapist gives an account of the test of change to get a patient home on the day they were discharged by the GSM consultant Senior registrar
PDSA tests of moving from ‘post take’ to ‘on take’ Let me introduce ‘George’ • 82 years old • Lives independently and wants to continue doing so • Widowed 5 years ago • Has mild dementia • Daughter lives locally • Losing weight + poor mobility
Implementation dates: • April 2012 • Consultant geriatricians ‘on take’ 7 days per week • May 2012 • Frailty Unit process initially virtually • Frailty Unit opens mid-May
Midnight bed occupancy dropped by over 60 beds (no similar change in previous 10 years)
Balance measure: No increase in readmissions
Discharge to Assess (D2A) The future hospital will support a system of ‘discharge to assess’ in physiotherapy and occupational therapy. Section 5.20 Future Hospital Report, Royal College of Physicians (September 2013)
Implementation dates: • April 2012 • Consultant geriatricians ‘on take’ 7 days per week • May 2012 • Frailty Unit process initially virtually • Frailty Unit opens mid-May • September 2013 • Testing of ‘discharge to assess’ from base wards • October 2013 • Implementation of ‘discharge to assess’ begins
Time waiting per patient D2A starts
CONCLUSION • Modern health care is complex • Iterative testing and prototyping by front line staff • Our patients want timely quality care • Timely quality care is cheaper and safer • Measure • D2A – don’t worry that it’s obvious • Our journey has only just started
Thank youTom.Downes@sth.nhs.uk @sheffielddoc