2. Project Goal
Improve ACCESS to care for adult patients with
BACK PAIN referred to Westmead Hospital
Neurosurgical Clinics through a COST
EFFECTIVE PATIENT CENTRED service by August
2018.
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools
Used
3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
3. What Diagnostics Tools/Methods did we
use?
Patient Interviews
Staff/Stakeholder Interviews
Observational Studies
Data Analysis
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools
Used
3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
7. • 62 year old with LBP pain > 2 years
• Currently unable to work
• GP referred to Neurosurgical clinics at
Westmead Hospital
REFERRAL TRIAGED
APPOINTMEN
T GIVEN
PATIENT
SEEN
FOLLOW-UP
CARE
PROVIDED
“No
communication
How long will I
wait?”
“No
communication…m
y
pain is increasing”
“Why do I
have to wait
so long in
clinic?”
“Has care been
organised for
me…when will
my pain
settle?”
Patient Experience – Current State
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools
Used
3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
8. Key findings
Number of
Responses
Kindness &
Respect
Involvement
in Care
Clear
Communication
Pre
Implementatio
n
76 60 68
Benchmark 85 85 85
Patient Experience Heat
Map
“I wait for ever…
No customer
care…
No one really
cares”
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools Used 3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
9. Key findings
2) 15%
Out of Area
3) Only
1% RECEIVE LETTER
4) 24%
of patients do not
receive a text
message reminder
5) Cost of DNA
$400 LOST per 15 min
appointment
“9 weeks to
be advised…
corresponde
nce rude”
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools Used 3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
10.
11. REFERRAL TRIAGED
APPOINTMEN
T GIVEN
PATIENT
SEEN
FOLLOW-UP
CARE
PROVIDED
“I was seen at
the time of my
appointment”
“I know where I am
referred and how to get in
contact with the new
referrer and I know
estimated waiting times
for my next appointment”
“I have knowledge
of my
appointment…
I didn’t have to wait
a long time”
Patient Experience – Desired State
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools
Used
3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
12. Solution Design Techniques
SOLUTIONS WORKSHOP
(blitz, power of three, brainstorming, multi-voting)
Medical staff (n = 10), Administrative (n = 10), Allied health (n =
15), Consumers/Patients (n = 5)
1. Project Goal 2. Diagnostic Tools
Used
3. Key Issues 4. Key Findings 5. Solutions
14. PREMS Results – Heat Map
Patient Experience Heat Map
April 2018 98 97 94
May 2018 87 87 100
June 2018 97 97 97
Kindness &
Respect
Involvement in
Care
Clear
Communication
September 2017 76 60 68
Benchmark 85 85 85
Post Implementation of Solutions
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
15. Questions 5: Did staff explain things in a way you could
understand?
PREMS Results
PRE POST
Improvement
by 50%
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
16. Questions 7: How likely are you to recommend the service?
PREMS Results
PRE POST
YES!
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
17. PREMS Results – Word Cloud
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
18. 1. Real time feedback to monitor solutions
2. An opportunity to quickly evaluate service
changes
3. Able to provide qualitative and quantitative
data
4. Patients can complete survey at the own
time
Importance of embedding
My Experience Matters into our service
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
19. 6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
20. Acknowledgments
• Debbie Sharpe – Executive Sponsor
• Dr Andrew Kam – Neurosurgeon/Project Champion
• Emma Clarke & Clementia Yap – Innovation & Redesign
Team
• Maria Quinlivan – HOD Physiotherapy
• Carlos Furtado & Jara Pinheiro – WSLHD Media
• Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)
• Joshua Pate - Pain Physiotherapist (Westmead
Hospital)
6. PREMS Results 7. Benefits of Using Tool 8. Questions 9. Acknowledgments
Editor's Notes
From this, we identified 4 strong common key issues that were then explored using a root cause analysis using the 5 why’s.
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Video – We’ve Got Your Back
By Looking at this heat map that my experience map tool puts together it was clearly evident that the Neurosurgical clinics were well below the benchmark in regards to achieving its core values of treating patients with kindness and respect, involving patients in their care and also providing clear communication to patients.
Through identification of this during our diagnostics we were able to tailor our solutions to address these gaps in our service and have as result been able to surpass the LHD over the past 3 months in all 3 of these categories.
The my experience tool also easily quantifies readily questions such as if “staff explained things in a way that it could be understand? So that it can be presentable and easily understood when comparing results pre and post implementation of solutions
This could also be seen readily in another question of how likely patients would recommend this service pre and post implementation of solutions with an alomost 30% increase in patient likelihood.
Another valuable result that the tool presents is a word cloud which puts together positive and negative comments that people may leave on the survey which once again can be presented to an audience such as yourselves to show the results of project.
Therefore there are several benefits of using the My experience matters toold some of which have included