Neonatal Quality Dashboard

Gayle Budden South West Neonatal Networks Manager

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Dashboard

 Part of national transition work on quality  Work overseen by a multidisciplinary short life working group under the governance of SCG Director’s Group  The working group was multidisciplinary and had national representation  Working group met remotely four times over last summer

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Dashboard

 Long list of potential dashboard measures collected, scored and refined  Three dashboards have been agreed, one for networks, one for NICUs and one for LNUs/SCUs.

 The measures on the 3 dashboards have been submitted to the transition group and accepted

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Example Dashboard Measures

Measure

Retinopathy screening Cot occupancy

Measure Reference (NICE/NNAP/ Toolkit (TK) Principle / CQC standards)

NICE-9(c) & NNAP 3(2011) Babies with NEC NDAU NICE-2(c), TK Principle 8 (8.5)

Measurement definition Numerator Denominator Numerator Data Source

Proportion of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who receive specialist neonatal care and undergo retinopathy screening as per the current guidelines recommendations prior to discharge from hospital Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who undergo retinopathy screening in line with current guideline recommendations prior to discharge from hospital Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501 g, receiving specialist neonatal care and discharged from hospital Badger Number of babies who have a confirmed diagnosis of NEC in accordance with NDAU defintion Number of babies who have confirmed NEC Total number of babies in specialised neonatal care Badger Bed occupancy for each level of care Occupied beddays per month Available beddays per month (based on staffing at each level of care). Based on established staffing rather than actual staffing per shift.

Badger

Denominat or Data Source

Badger Badger Cot declaration

Neonatal Dashboard – next steps

 Work has now moved to a working group that is responsible for the creation of databooks  To be implemented from April 2012  Will be a CQUIN for Trusts to be collecting dashboards

South West Specialised Commissioning Group