The Kings Fund tells us there is clear evidence that targets and performance management has contributed to NHS performance improvements. Major achievements included reduced waiting times for patients, reductions in healthcare acquired infections and improvements in areas of clinical priority, like cancer and cardiac care.
A key element of the Congenital Heart Disease Network South Wales & South West's vision is to be a Network whereby patients have equitable access to services regardless of geography. One of our overarching objectives is to ensure timely and equitable access to services. As such, each quarter, the Network requests data from its Centres regarding patient waiting times. This information is complied into a quarterly dashboard and data is reviewed, highlighting areas where national standards for treatment times are not being met and/or where patients are waiting too long for aspects of their care.
The next step is for centres to ensure plans are in place to improve performance and any clinical risk held in pockets of poor performance is assessed and addressed.
Copies of the Network dashboards to date can be found here:
- 2023/24 Quarter 1 April-June 2023 Inpatient dashboard (published August 2023)
- 2023/24 Quarter 1 April-June 2023 Outpatient dashboard (published August 2023)
- 2022/23 Quarter 4 January - March 2023 dashboard (published April 2023)
- 2022/23 Quarter 3 October - December 2022 dashboard (published January 2023)
- 2022/23 Quarter 2 July - September 2022 dashboard (published October 2022)
- 2022/23 Quarter 1 April - June 2022 dashboard (published July 2022)
- 2021/22 Quarter 4 January - March 2022 dashboard (published July 2022)
- 2021/22 Quarter 3 October - December 2021 dashboard (published March 2022)
- 2021/22 Quarter 2 July - September 2021 dashboard (published December 2021)
- 2021/22 Quarter 1 April to June 2021 dashboard (published September 2021)
- 2020/21 Quarter 4 January to March 2021 dashboard (published June 2021)
- 2020/21 Quarter 3 October to December dashboard (published March 2021)
- November 2020 dashboard
- August 2020 dashboard
- May 2020 dashboard
- January 2020 dashboard
- September 2019 dashboard
- March 2019 dashboard
- November 2018 dashboard
- June 2018 dashboard
- March 2018 dashboard
- December 2017 dashboard
- September 2017 dashboard
- June 2017 dashboard
- March 2017 dashboard
Our aim is to develop these dashboards over time. If you have any thoughts or comments on the dashboard, please get in touch: Louise.Hudson@uhbw.nhs.uk