ManDetSIP focuses on managing deterioration at a system-wide level across both health and social care through managing deterioration and care homes patient safety .
What are the aims of the Managing Deterioration Safety Improvement Programme?
By March 2024, the programme aims to:
Support the adoption and spread of the COVID [email protected] and COVID Virtual Ward remote monitoring models by March 2021.
Support the spread and adoption of the acute Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) and a system-wide paediatrics observations tracker for children across all appropriate care settings by March 2024.
Support an increase in the spread and adoption of deterioration management tools (including NEWS2, Soft Signs and SBAR), reliable personalised care and support planning (PCSP), and approaches encompassing end of life care principles, to support learning disabilities, mental health and dementia care management in relation to deterioration in at least 80% of all appropriate non-acute settings across health and social care by March 2024.
Supporting improvement in deterioration management in non-acute settings
The National Early Warning Score version 2 (NEWS2) is a structured observation tool to identify deterioration in adults. The ManDetSIP initially supported its national adoption by ambulance and hospital trusts to reduce the number of patients who deteriorate while in hospital. It is now working in non-hospital settings, including care homes, to assess use of deterioration management tools and support organisational training, adoption and consistent application – using tools like NEWS2, soft signs, SBAR etc. which help staff to identify possible deterioration through both ‘soft signs’ and physiological observations and communicate for escalation and response.
The Eastern Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) is also supporting the role out of digital innovations that incorporate NEWS2, soft signs and SBAR. An example is the Whzan blue box.
Eastern PSC works through its Patient Safety Networks, developing resources and tools to support improvement in their local health and care systems in collaboration with providers, CCGs, ICSs and local systems. As a result, more community services, mental health providers, and primary care settings are adopting deterioration management tools. Specific focus on care homes through partnership with the national Enhancing Health in Care Homes programme has already resulted in recent reports of approx. 55% of care homes in England training in or having implemented a deterioration management tool.
Patient Safety Collaboratives have also been developing approaches to increase adoption of Personalised Care and Support Plans (PCSPs) across non-hospital settings – aligning with the work of the national palliative end of life care and personalised care and support plan teams, to support assessment of the quality and reliability of personalised care planning in relation to deterioration.
Further information
For more information, please contact Tara Marshall, Clinical Improvement Lead – Deterioration, at [email protected]
The Patient Safety Improvement Programmes are bring delivered in our region by the Eastern Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC).
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What are NatPatSIPs?
The National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes (NatPatSIPs) support a culture of safety, continuous learning and sustainable improvement across the healthcare system. They are run by the Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs), which are funded and nationally coordinated by NHS England and NHS Improvement and hosted locally by the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs).