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Improving Care For Older People
in Acute Care
Perplexed about pathways?
Complexities of Care Co-ordination
Penny Bond
Team Leader
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Improving Care for Older People in Acute Care – Phase 1: Scoping & Development
Evidence to inform priorities for improvement
-Critical Assimilation and Analysis Process (CAAP) to review current literature
-HIS Inspection themes
-Discussions with key stakeholders to inform priorities for improvement
Stakeholder Engagement
-Meeting of ‘critical friends’ to share CAAP findings, inspections themes and to
consult on the draft improvement approach/model
-Meeting of National Leads to understand the current landscape of national
programmes and identify current change packages, measures and alignment
opportunities
-Board Engagement Event to consult on the improvement approach/model and
to understand the requirements of NHS boards in supporting improvements
Improvement
-Identified teams to participate in this work
-Established a sub-group for Delirium Management
-Webex call with teams to identify current challenges
-Planning for Learning Session 1
Improving Care for Older People in Acute Care – High Level Driver Diagram
Aim
To improve the care for
older people in acute
care by March 2014, by
building and spreading
improvement in 2 key
areas:
1. Care Co-ordination
2.Cognitive Impairment
To achieve
improvements in
reliability and person
Centred Care.
•95% of patients over 65
will be screened
•95% of patients will
received standardised
comprehensive
assessment
•300 days between
complaints or 50%
reduction in complaints
•95% compliance with
delirium bundles (initial
process measure)
Primary Drivers
Care
Co-ordination
Secondary Drivers
Assessment at the front door
• Screening to identify patients most likely to benefit from comprehensive assessment
•Reliable comprehensive assessment
Identification of need and care planning
•Ensure system in place to identify patients at risk
•Create a culture that supports family and carer involvement in care
•Promote the use of patient, family, carer feedback to improve care
•Ensure patient requirements are accurately reflected in the care plan
Care Pathways
•Ensure appropriate care pathways are considered
•Optimise efficiencies in handovers and discharge process
•Avoid inappropriate inter and intra ward transfers
•Develop and test delirium bundles to improve the prevention of delirium and
recognition and management of delirium
Cognitive
Impairment
•Ensure alignment with dementia strategy, Scottish Delirium Association Pathway
and NHS Education for Scotland educational resources
•Share practice in delirium management across Scotland
Leadership
and Culture
To support a
culture of quality
and improvement
through person
centred care
approaches
•Develop infrastructure to support teams with quality improvement work
•Promote the work of the Improving Care for Older People work stream
•Align work with wider older peoples improvement work and person centred
health and care work
•Optimise opportunities for spread
•Optimise opportunities to learn from and share good practice, including
learning from NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian collaborative
Alignment & Integration
NHS Tayside & NHS
Grampian BTS
Collaborative
Healthcare
Improvement
Scotland Inspections
Reshaping Care
for Older People
Scottish
Safety Index
Improving
Care for Older
People in
Acute Care
Leading Better
Care
Person Centred
Health and Care
Releasing
Time to Care
Today….
• Wordle
– ‘what is the one thing you think would make the
biggest difference to improving care for older
people and their families?’
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Story boards
Photos
Postcard pledge
Team planning