Quality care measures provide assurance and support good practice within health boards. Where gaps in the existing measures are identified, health boards can submit a request for the development of a new measure.
Submit a request
A monthly Measure Oversight Group will triage and prioritise requests. The turnaround time for a decision on a request will be communicated within 25 working days.
Once the measure development process is complete, it will be added to the CAIR dashboard for use.
Send all new measure requests using our online form.
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Complete the Excellence in Care measure request form.
Once you have completed your request you will receive an automated acknowledgement.
Completing the measure request form
Complete the following details in our form:
Q1: Your name
Q2: Your job title
Q3: Your email details
Q4: Your health board
Q5: What is the aspect of care you are looking to address and why is it important to the service? Please include the potential measure (if known)
To support answering question five, you can consider the following questions:
- How do you know it is a problem?
- Why does it matter to the service?
- How does is show high quality care?
- Is current data on performance available?
- Is this a paper or electronic collection process?
- Is there an operational definition for the measure?
- Have any local barriers been identified?
- How does this link to the Excellence in Care framework?
Q6: Does this link to any other National or local priorities? Please expand on the priorities
To support answering question six, you can consider the following questions:
- Has this been discussed with the local Excellence in Care lead nurse?
- Would this provide quality assurance for your service/team/organisation?
- What links are there to other improvement programme?
- Does a measure already exist out with the CAIR dashboard?
Q7: What services are affected? Please select all relevant choices
Select all relevant services that may be affected by this measure.
Q8: Which nursing and midwifery family does it fall within? Please select all relevant choices
- Select all relevant nursing and midwifery families that this measure may sit within.
- Consider if this measure could be a core measure and sit across all families or if it is specific family.
Processing of measure request
Depending on the level of information you provide, we may contact you for further details.
Once we have all the information, we will review the request at the Measure Oversight Group.
We will then run any measure requiring development through a prioritisation matrix. The matrix ranks the measures based upon the current priorities and gaps linked to Excellence in Care.
We will let you know the outcome of review, as the request submitter.
We will review the measure priorities on a quarterly basis to ensure they remain up to date.
Once the measure development begins, a Short Life Working Group will meet. This will consist of relevant stakeholders and subject matter experts. A health services researcher will complete a review of the latest research and standards to support the measure.
The group will complete an Equality Impact Assessment Screening Form. This ensures any measures are inclusive.
We will develop the measure in line with our measure development process. Before we submit data for the measure, it will undergo a robust testing process.
Evaluation
The outcome of the request will be tracked on our reporting spreadsheet.
This information will held on a secure drive that is accessible to our team.
We will update the Measure Oversight Board, Excellence in Care National Team and Programme Board to ensure the work is progressing.
When the team has completed the work, we will issue an evaluation form to the stakeholder.
We will use this feedback to inform continuous improvement and learning.