Key Indicators.
Roy, You beat me to the same question. It is of concern that an area with so much potential for yielding insights into potential improvements in the overall managements of med devices has a low weighting. With the Govt desire for measuring performance in so many areas of healthcare delivery FOR COMPARISON PURPOSES !, that no central lead has been taken on this.
Without some broad direction pointing, individual trusts will indeed produce their own, because that is what they thave been asked to do. BUT..... it will take around 2 years for that data to become meaningful, it will probably not be directly comparable, and to add insult, the 'centre' will probably issue some guidelines about 18 moonths into us running our own. Result: wasted time/effort, limited lessons learned, and still no comparison data available.
Does anybody on this list have the right 'connections' to get this question aired in the right places? I am not looking forward to wasting my time.
Failing a national directive, there clearly would be benefit to producing a baseline set between several Trusts - the more the better.
