Welcome to Knowledge Matters Hello everyone I thought that you may be interested to hear about a really useful Webex that I was involved with earlier this month. The Webex was organized by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and focused on the measurement challenges facing the NHS in relation improving quality whilst at the same time reducing cost. Nearly 100 participants were involved with the Webex which aimed to both identify the key measurement challenges and share examples of what works well currently in different parts of the system. There was a very lively ‘ chat room’ which created a wealth of ideas and practical examples of tools and techniques. A full recording of the Webex is available on-line and I would encourage you to take the time (just over an hour) to listen to the recording https://nhs.webex.com/nhs/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=7932912&rKey=63FB4809033154BD The Institute will be writing up a report of the Webex and are hoping to establish an ‘Ideas Channel’ for measuring cost and quality. This will provide an excellent opportunity to gather (and subsequently share) the wealth of ideas, knowledge and wisdom from within the NHS about this crucially important topic. You will already be aware that from 1 April 2009, all providers of NHS-funded care have been required to collect Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for four clinical areas: hip replacements; knee replacements; hernia and varicose veins. PROMs measure quality from the patient perspective. The first set of provisional preoperative PROMs data has recently been published covering the period April 2009 – November 2009. This is the first NHS Information Centre publication of experimental statistics outlining information collected for the programme and sets out key statistics on patients' self-reported health status before undergoing surgery. Information on PROMs can be accessed from the following link http://www.ic.nhs.uk/proms An article will be published in the next edition of Knowledge Matters which provides some commentary on what PROMs data is saying for organisations within South East Coast. See you in June!
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