Parkinson's disease audit tool
The Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) has developed an excel-based
audit tool to allow clinicians to monitor the standards of care
that they provide to patients. This will enable clinical centres to
audit their services against national standards of good
practice.
Devised by a multi-professional steering
group, the work links to the key recommendations of the 2006
National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
guidelines for the management of Parkinson's and also reflects
the quality standards outlined in the National Service
Framework (NSF) for Long Term Neurological Conditions.
The audit tool is in the form of an excel
spreadsheet, accompanied by a list of standards with guidance
notes, advice about setting up the audit and a registration form
for centres completing the review.
The tool is made up of two parts:
- The Service description audit
examines patient access to NICE recommended services and
treatments.
- The New patient audit investigates
the standards relating to the first clinic visit by people referred
with the query “is this Parkinson's disease?"
Audit tool documents
Submitting audit documents to the PDS
The closing date for organisations to submit
their audit documents to the PDS is 30 November
2009. Spreadsheets should be returned along with a
completed registration form to pdaudit@parkinsons.org.uk
All participants will receive an analysis of
their own data, information on how this compares with other
anonymised centres and the average of the data obtained.
The PDS will store the data securely and will
not release this without the prior consent of the audited
centre.
Future developments
The next stage of development for the audit
tool will see more detail added for people with Parkinson's who are
referred for speech and language and other therapies.
For more information about the audit tool please email
pdaudit@parkinsons.org.uk
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