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LASA Q
Tracey Rees
State Manager
Agenda
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Round six
Industry performance
Managing risk
Promoting quality
The ‘accreditation round’
Industry performance - % homes 44/44 as at last audit*
– Round one (2000) – 64 per cent
• 243 homes had 10 or more not met
expected outcomes, 68 had five or more
– Round five (2012) – 95 per cent
• 26 homes had 10 or more not mets, 13 had
five or more
– Round six???
• Next ‘round’ will be as at 31 December 2015*
Ownership is not a performance factor
*Based on the last decision before 31 December every three years e.g. 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012.
Industry performance – as at 31 January 2015
• 2,688 homes
– 24 homes on timetable for improvement
– Two with 4+ not mets
– One with 10+ not mets
Industry performance
• Three-year data to 31 December 2014
• 17,135 visits, of which:
– 9,139 unannounced assessment contacts
• >one per year for each home
– 4,965 announced assessment contacts
• mainly TFI monitoring visits
– 2,898 re-accreditation audits
– 133 review audits
The not mets
• In 17,135 visits over three years:
– 170 not mets in information systems
– 115 not mets in clinical care
– 115 not mets in medication management
– 106 not mets in human resource management
– 97 not mets in behavioural management
The not mets
• Most expected outcomes are linked
– Failure in one area of a home’s performance
usually impacts other areas of care, service
delivery
• Failure in Standard One often a causal factor
linked to failures in Standard two and Standard
three
• Combined with a poor systemic approach to CI
Information systems
• Ineffective approaches to collecting and
recording information
• Ineffective approaches to updating care planning
and assessment
• Poor approaches to sharing information
– Eg allergies/dietary needs noted in care plan,
not relayed to kitchen
• Poor shift handover practices
Often impacts other outcomes
Pareto Chart
Frequency of system failures
Expected outcome 1.8 Information Systems
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100%
90%
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80%
70%
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60%
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50%
40%
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30%
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20%
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10%
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0%
Process/system failure
Cumulative percentage
Frequency per process
30
Clinical care
• Care needs not regularly assessed and
documented
• Outcomes of care not evaluated to identify
changes in needs
• Ineffective process monitoring systems
• Limited oversight of staff practice
Medication management
• Limited oversight of staff practice in medication
administration
• Failure to identify and manage medication errors
and omissions and taking prompt action
• Medications not stored correctly (eg temperature
range) or securely (eg potential for
unauthorised access)
• Ineffective communication process for managing
medication orders
Human resource management
• Poor recruitment practices
• Poor management and induction of casual or
temporary staff
• Ineffective management of staff skills mix to
meet current resident needs (eg, increase in
acuity of residents)
• Ineffective rostering practices
Behavioural management
• Ineffective behavioural management care plans
• Poor assessment and review
• Staff skills inadequate for managing challenging
behaviours
• Poor approach to managing incidents and
responding with appropriate management
strategies
• Ineffective process for identifying changes in
care needs
• Information to guide staff not up-to-date
Managing risk
• Risk cannot be avoided
• Risk must be identified and managed
• Systems and people create or reduce risk
• Failure usually occurs as a result of a
combination of factors:
• Some known, some unforeseen, sometimes
related, sometimes not
Reason theory
James Reason’s 7 myths about error
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Errors are intrinsically bad
Bad people make bad errors
Errors are random and highly variable
Practice makes perfect
Errors of highly trained people are rare
Errors of highly trained people are usually
sufficient to cause bad outcomes
• It is easier to change people than situations
Managing risks in aged care
• Changes in key personnel
• Change of management systems (incl. IT)
• Changes in processes and procedures not
supported by appropriate staff training
• Change in resident numbers/mix
• Building programs / relocation
• Changes in business strategy / restructuring
• Change of ownership
Managing risk
• There are risks to be managed in all activities
• The problem is not the risk!
• Problems occur when the risk is not properly
managed
• Risk management is everyone’s responsibility
• Risk management is part of ‘business as usual’,
not ‘an add-on’
• Develop risk mitigation plans
• Regularly review risks and update plans
Promoting quality – Better Practice Brisbane
Brisbane 12/13 November – make it a date
Promoting quality – for all providers
• Better Practice Program includes residential and
home care components
• Needs analysis covers all - under review
• Quest
• Qhome
• Understanding accreditation
• Understanding quality review
Better Practice Awards
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Scheme currently under review
Recognise better practice/high performance
Residential providers
Home support program providers
Supports Better Practice conference program
and participation
Baptcare Victoria use of psychotropic medication
• Drug use evaluation tool to assist in identifying
risk and opportunities for improvement
• Organisation-wide approach
– 67% reduction in the use of psychotropic medications
– 40% improvement in compliance with therapeutic
guidelines and prescribing patterns
– Successful implementation of alternate therapies
“Benefits for all concerned are clearly demonstrated and the
programme is worthy of wider implementation across all
RACFs.” – Judges’ comment
Uniting Care NSW Starrett Lodge - bucket list program
• The BLiP on the horizon - showing people with dementia
at the centre of their own life story, communicating with
their communities what is important and why their life is
worth living
• Improves residents‘ aspirations and autonomy by
empowering identification of Bucket List goals
• self esteem by engendering purpose, self worth and
achievement in helping each other reach goals
• social networks and social inclusion
“The key thing it does well is it treats people with dementia as real
people! And gives them choice and agency!” – Judges’ comment
Aldinga Beach Court Lifecare, SA – from bedtime to breakfast
• 240 calls overnight in a 24-bed secure unit
• Review of practices and environment to identify
sleep disturbance triggers
• Identify usual sleep patterns
• Modify daytime social and recreational activities
• Overnight calls reduced to <100
“Sleep is not all about night time – it is about what happens 24
hours a day” - submission
Thankyou!