2. AAHBC
Convened in 1997
Originally titled the National Allied Health Benchmarking Consortium (NAHBC)
Founded to facilitate the development of a standardised method of recording allied health activity in Australia’s public hospitals.

3. AAHBC responsibilities
To enable a network of collaborative tertiary teaching hospitals to develop and maintain a standardised approach to benchmarking
Provide input into allied health and whole of health strategies and projects through
the utilisation of quality data sets and
the combined input of experienced members across the network of participating hospitals.

4. Current Membership VIC SA NZ NSW QLD Tasmanian Health Service
Alfred Health
Austin Health
Barwon Health
Melbourne Health – Royal Melb
Monash Health
St Vincent’s Hospital
Western Health SA
Flinders Medical Centre
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Lyell McEwin Hospital NZ
Capital & Coast DHB
Hutt Valley
NSW
Nepean Hospital
QLD
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Gold Coast University Hospital
Tasmanian Health Service
Royal Hobart Hospital
Launceston General

5. Membership criteria
Willingness to participate in group discussion and projects
Established allied health governance structure
Tertiary or teaching hospital with 250 +beds with significant annual separations
Allied health data collection system/s in place
Allied health data collected using the Australian Allied Health Classification System
Contributing AH data to the Health Roundtable is beneficial and encouraged

6. Current Projects Clinical Care Ratios
Understanding the impact of variations in allied health care within acute stroke
Online learning platform
Staff modelling

7. Clinical Care Ratios for Allied Health

8. Clinical Care Ratios: Quantifying Clinical versus Non-clinical care for Allied Health Professionals
Paper published 2017 with Australian Health Review
In August, AAHBC members commenced revalidation of the activity data with particular interest in
CCR across and within disciplines
Effect of increased mandatory training effect of past few years on CCR
Effect of part time workforce on CCR

9. CCR Dashboard Example

11. Pilot Project: Acute Stroke management within tertiary teaching hospitals

12. Pilot project to enable demonstration of allied health contribution and reducing unwarranted variation in acute stroke nationally and validate a methodology for analytics
Why Stroke?
Despite well established guidelines, not all people with stroke receive appropriate treatment and there is variation in the type of care received

13. Research Questions
Does variation in acute stroke care provided by allied health professions against the national stroke guidelines within tertiary teaching hospitals affect:
Patient length of stay?
Patient outcomes?

14. Online Learning Platform for Data Integrity

15. An online platform
Provides a consistent approach to training for data classification
Aims to reduce error rates through improved interaction within the training
Builds real time feedback into education modules
Allows reporting of accuracy of data classification within and across AAHBC sites

16. AHHBC Staffing Models

17. Background Benchmarking: Service Performance / Activity
Episodes
Occasions of Service
Hours of Activity
Per Episode Level
Service Growth / Business Case Development
The classic Ring-around
How many beds do you have ?
How much eft do you have ?

18. Staffing Model Access Database Uses EFT per bed as the comparator!
This allows quick identification of areas for benchmarking
Data can be wrapped up / drilled down within the three domains:
AAHBC -> Hospital
Allied Health -> Discipline
Overall -> Clinical Groups -> Local Units

19. Clinical Disciplines Hospitals Units NUT OT PT SW …. Cardiology
Gen Med
Clinical
Units
Ortho
Stroke ….
ALF FMC RAH PAH ….
NUT OT PT SW ….
Disciplines
Hospitals

21. AAHBC meetings Every 2 months via Zoom
Face to Face meeting prior to HRT annually
Site tours of local health facilities of interest
Share common issues, innovations and solutions
Identify shared cross site opportunities and project leads

22. Goals for 2018 Progress existing projects
Investigate the use of Patient Related Outcome / Experience Measures (PROMS / PREMS)
Within and across disciplines
Across sites within AAHBC