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Measure
Rationale
Output class / Category
Dimension of
Performance
services.
Percentage of patients receive their first cancer treatment (or other management) within 62 days of being referred with a high suspicion of cancer and a need to be seen within two weeks
Specialist cancer treatment and symptom control is essential in reducing the impact of cancer
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services and Acute Services
Quantity / Timeliness
Percentage of patients who require radiation or chemotherapy are treated with 4 weeks
Quantity
Arranged caesarean delivery without catastrophic or severe complications as a percentage of total secondary and primary deliveries
The longer-term aim is to reduce the risks associated with an unnecessary Caesarean section, reduce the number of women at risk of a subsequent Caesarean section and reduce the number of women who experience difficulties with their second and subsequent births as a consequence of a primary Caesarean section.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services
Quantity
Percentage of patients waiting longer than four months for their first specialist assessment
Patients have a much better chance of recovering and getting on with their lives where they are diagnosed and treated and returned home in a timely way.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services
Quantity / Timeliness
Improved access to elective surgery, health target, agreed discharge volumes
Elective surgery reduces pain or discomfort, and improves independence and wellbeing. Increasing delivery should will improve access and reduce waiting times.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services
Quantity
Did-not-attend percentage for outpatient services
Reducing did not attends is a key objective in terms of removing waste in the system
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services and Acute Services
Quantity
Inpatient Average Length of Stay (elective and acute)
By shortening hospital length of stay, while ensuring patients receive sufficient care to avoid readmission, we will positively impact hospital productivity through freeing up beds and other resources so it can provide more elective surgery, reduce waiting times in the emergency department or make savings. Supporting patients to return home sooner may, in part, be achieved by reducing the rate of patient complications and better use of the time clinical staff spend with patients. Patients will also be less at risk of contracting nosocomial infections.
Access and shorter waits are very important to patients. Earlier treatment in the progression of illness links to better outcomes as evidenced in international literature. Timeliness is also a key quality indicator in calls for improvement to the health care system.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Elective Services and Acute Services
Quality
Percentage of young people aged 0 - 19 referred for non-urgent mental health services are seen within three weeks or eight weeks
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Services
Timeliness / Quality
Percentage of child and youth with a transition (discharge) plan
Maintaining and improving patient engagement through the use of transition/discharge plans will ensure that services are patient-centred and responsive, supporting patients’ trust and confidence in services and the health and disability system. People that are better able to better manage their own health condition represent value for money because of the proven reduction in the demand for mental health services.
Intensive Assessment and Treatment Services / Specialist Mental Health and Addiction Services
Quantity / Timeliness
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