Advancing Quality in Primary Care – What is Quality Improvement?

1. Advancing Quality in Primary Care – What is Quality Improvement? 10 March 2011 Powys THB/IRH Paul Myres- Chair Primary Care Quality Forum

2. 3 basic questions • How good is the clinical care received by your patient • How do you know? • What are you doing to make it better?

3. What is high-quality care? • Relevant • Effective • Acceptable • Accessible • Safe • Efficient • Equitable • Timely • Measurable

4. What determines quality? • Personnel • Environment • Systems • Knowledge/ Clinical effectiveness • Culture • Monitoring • …………………………………….

5. Patient Purchaser- LHB Provider Eg Dentist/Trust Getting it right – checks and balances Resources The Public,TheMedia WAG Evidence based care/ Skill

6. How do we ensure high quality? Research Knowledge Review Audit Complaints/ compliments Education/ CPD Patients and public Implementation Risk management Planning Care Delivery

7. Research evidence Clinical experience Patient factors Clinical Effectiveness Resources

8. How do we improve quality? • Understand the problem – accurate interpretation of data • Understand processes and systems • Analyse demand, capacity, and flows • Choose the right change tools – leadership;staff and patient involvement • Evaluate impact of change

9. Processes for quality improvement • evidence based practice and clinical effectiveness programmes • risk management processes • clinical audit programmes • learning from incident reporting • learning from complaints/compliments • listening to the views of patients, carers and the public

10. Quality & Use of information • Systems in place to store and share that information • Capability to assess meaning and evaluate information • Willingness and ability to respond to information and evidence that something happens • Accurate and reliable recording of appropriate information

11. Staff focus • Workforce planning and staff management • Education, training, appraisal and CPD • Induction and mandatory training • Multi-disciplinary team working • Monitoring individual/team performance

12. Leadership, strategy and planning • The team knows where it is going and why • There are clear processes and expectations of performance • Teams and individuals understand their roles and responsibilities • Planning involves all partners, internal staff external staff as appropriate ?and patients/public

13. What can we use to assure quality? -Incident reporting - SEA • Acknowledging something has occurred • Being prepared to tell others • Low blame culture • Analysing what happened • Identify what went wrong/right and why • Sharing the learning • Checking things have changed

14. What can we measure ? • Outcomes – endpoints - markers • Processes • Patient Experience • Carer Experience • Staff Experience • Adverse events

15. What info is already collected? QOF Audit+ Prescribing Vacc & Imms Hospital activity OOHs activity Critical incidents Complaints

16. What can we use to measure it? - AUDIT “a quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change” (Principles for Best Practice in Clinical Audit 2002)

17. The Audit Cycle Agree/Review Standards Collect data on current practice Implement change if needed Compare data with standards

18. The Improvement Cycle Plan Do Act Study

19. 26 Standards Sit alongside professional and quality standards Key tool to help drive up clinical quality and patient experience Use them to plan, design, develop and improve services Stronger focus on embedding the standards at team level Doing Well, Doing Better : Standards for Health Services in Wales

20. The key themes in the Standards • Running legally, efficiently and upholding public service values • Promoting wellbeing and preventing ill health • Emergency planning • Engaging in a meaningful way with patients, service users and carers • Providing safe and effective treatment, care and services in • appropriate environments • Communicating well internally, externally and with all stakeholders • Dealing well with concerns, managing adverse incidents and • learning from these • Effective workforce planning, recruitment and development.

21. Teams and services should use standards to – • Review their services – alongside professional standards as appropriate • Assess where they are doing well and have good practice to share • Assess where they could do better and have areas for improvement • Develop improvement plans to address the weaker areas • Engage with organisational management to escalate risks and actions that can’t be managed by the team itself

22. CGPSAT • Standardised model across Wales • Linked to Standards for Health Services • Developed by practitioners and other • stakeholders • Endorsed by GPC Wales & RCGP • Designed to help practices review, monitor & • improve systems within their practice

23. Quality Assurance Process DATA (trends and patterns/ outcomes – avoid scoring Analysis by LHB (MDT) • Support • PCSS • IMA • CPD • Clinical Director • AMD • ?Team Coach • ?Mentor • ?Hit Squad Focussed Visit Trained Assessors eg LHB, Lay, PM, GP Action Plan Unacceptable IMAs PM Nurse assessor Investigation (More detail, diagnostic) Performance Procedures Primary Care Quality and Information Service

24. 4 basic questions • How good is the clinical care received by your patient population? Clinical effectiveness, staff, systems & processes • How do you know? Audit, incident reporting • What are you doing to make it better? Leadership ,strategy, PPI, resources, risk management • How can you share / prove it? Use of information, Openness