South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Quality Dashboard

Gayle BuddenSouth West Neonatal Networks Manager

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Dashboard

Part of national transition work on quality Work overseen by a multidisciplinary short

life working group under the governance of SCG Director’s Group

The working group was multidisciplinary and had national representation

Working group met remotely four times over last summer

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Dashboard

Long list of potential dashboard measures collected, scored and refined

Three dashboards have been agreed, one for networks, one for NICUs and one for LNUs/SCUs.

The measures on the 3 dashboards have been submitted to the transition group and accepted

Example Dashboard Measures

Measure Measure Reference

(NICE/NNAP/ Toolkit (TK)

Principle / CQC standards)

Measurement definition Numerator Denominator Numerator Data

Source

Denominator Data Source

Retinopathy screening

NICE-9(c) & NNAP-3(2011)

Proportion of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who receive specialist neonatal care and undergo retinopathy screening as per the current guidelines recommendations prior to discharge from hospital

Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who undergo retinopathy screening in line with current guideline recommendations prior to discharge from hospital

Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501 g, receiving specialist neonatal care and discharged from hospital

Badger Badger

Babies with NEC NDAU Number of babies who have a confirmed diagnosis of NEC in accordance with NDAU defintion

Number of babies who have confirmed NEC

Total number of babies in specialised neonatal care

Badger Badger

Cot occupancy NICE-2(c), TK Principle 8 (8.5)

Bed occupancy for each level of care

Occupied beddays per month

Available beddays per month (based on staffing at each level of care). Based on established staffing rather than actual staffing per shift.

Badger Cot declaration

South West Specialised Commissioning Group

Neonatal Dashboard – next steps

Work has now moved to a working group that is responsible for the creation of databooks

To be implemented from April 2012 Will be a CQUIN for Trusts to be collecting

dashboards