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Has anybody done a list of Key Indicators "capable of showing improvements in medical devices management and/or providing early warning of risk" ???

Key Indicators for EBME performance can come from the National Benchmarking exercise - but Controls Assurance is looking for much more than simple performance indicators. The Guidance also requires the Trust Board to select some of the chosen indicators in order to ensure "that the internal controls are working and objectives for medical device management are being met".

HELP !

Has anyone got any information about this National Benchmarking Exercise please ?

There are North / South benchmarking clubs, NPAG are running it.

Click here for NPAG

Tel:
South England
Sue Pearman
Tel: 01245 544600

North England
Walter Linkhorn
Tel: 0161 973 2478

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.

Thanks John. I'll give them a ring.

A lot of time could be wasted by a lot of people - and yes, from past experience, "the centre" will wait till everyone has done the work, then issue their own list !
The problem I have is deciding what it is they want us to monitor. I can think of Key Indicators to show how hard we work, or how many repairs every technician does every day, or how long it takes us to respond to a breakdown call, etc etc, but is that really what they want ?
I have a strong suspician that they don't really know how to go about it and are waiting for us to come up with some ideas - so how about it ? Has anyone done anything on this issue yet ?