1. Enhancing Quality – Dementia Pathway Dementia Clinical Lead
Dr Kate Jefferies
Dementia Clinical Lead

2. AHSN is the network to drive the spread and adoption of innovation that will improve care across Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Locally we have the highest concentration of health technology
companies in Europe
Nine universities that offer breadth and diversity in research and teaching expertise
And nationally regarded Enhancing Quality & Recovery programmes that
increase consistency around the best standards of care
Our role is to connect people with a range of expertise to improve health and wealth

3. 14/15 Improvement Programme: Enhancing Quality and Recovery
Clinically-led, cultural change embeds high quality care
NICE guidance and quality standards become process achieving excellence - for every patient, every time
Robust and transparent data supports benchmarking and quality improvement
To tackle variation in care, improve outcomes and save lives

4. Patients’ care audited
Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science
Network
Current Pathways
170,000+
Patients’ care audited
Heart
Failure
(Acute)
AKI
Heart
Failure
(Community)
Colorectal
Pneumonia
Gynaecology
Dementia
Hip & Knee

5. Collaborative learning
Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science
Network
Enhancing Quality & Recovery (EQR) E Q R P O C S E Q R P O C S
EQR: Clinically led, evidence based. Every Patient, Every Time.
Bi-Annually
Evidence
Base
Collaborative learning
Bench-mark
Measures
NHSE
CCGs
SCNs
CCG Packs
CEO Packs
Providers
Commissioners
Regular Reports
Audits
Industry engagement

6. The process Set-up a Regional Project Team
Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science
Network
The process
Set-up a Regional Project Team
Project Team
Identify Clinical & Programme leads in each Trust
Trust Team
Agreement on denominator population for each pathway
Pathways
Agreement on best practice measures for each pathway
Measures
Online data collection
Reporting
Benchmarking
Reports
Collaborative Learning Events
Spread Learning
Peer Reviews
Sharing good implementation practices collaboratively between all organisation
Supporting
Website / Forum
Access to Info
What we’ve done

7. Examples of Quality Measures
Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science
Network
Risk assessment
Off licence medication discussed
Non drug methods
Management plan
Medication review requested in discharge summary
Examples of Quality Measures
Full cognitive assessment
Functional ability
CT/MRI scan
Written information
Dementia advisor
Dementia AP
Dementia
A&D

8. Care Bundle Dementia A&D
Kent Surrey Sussex
Academic Health Science
Network
Dementia
A&D
Care Bundle
Dementia A&D
KMPT, SABT & SPFT performance between Jan 2012 – Feb 2014