Neonatal Quality Dashboard
Gayle Budden
South West Neonatal
Networks Manager
South West Specialised Commissioning Group
Neonatal Dashboard
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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
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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
South West Specialised Commissioning Group
Example Dashboard Measures
Measure
Retinopathy
screening
Measure
Measurement definition
Reference
(NICE/NNAP/
Toolkit (TK)
Principle / CQC
standards)
NICE-9(c) & NNAP- Proportion of babies born at less
3(2011)
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
Babies with NEC NDAU
Cot occupancy
NICE-2(c), TK
Principle 8 (8.5)
Number of babies who have a
confirmed diagnosis of NEC in
accordance with NDAU defintion
Bed occupancy for each level of
care
Numerator
Denominator
Numerator Denominat
Data
or Data
Source
Source
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 who
have confirmed NEC
Number of babies born at Badger
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
Total number of babies in Badger
specialised neonatal care
Badger
Occupied beddays per
month
Available beddays per
Badger
month (based on staffing
at each level of care).
Based on established
staffing rather than actual
staffing per shift.
Cot
declaration
Neonatal Dashboard – next steps
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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
South West Specialised Commissioning Group