HealthPathways can be used to assist health system improvement by improving relationships.
Also consider:
- Are there regular meetings between GPs and hospital groups?
- Have the clinical working groups (CWGs) been productive?
Key questions or programme aims
- Have relationships improved between primary, secondary, and tertiary care?
- Does the pathway development process support collaborative practice across the wider health system?
Methods
- Interviews with key clinical and non-clinical leaders
- Clinician surveys
Health System Improvement – Relationships
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Key questions/Programme aims
What questions will identify if the programme is achieving its aims?
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Outcomes/Programme logic
What difference do we aim to make?
What do we expect to achieve?
Who will benefit?
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Indicators
How will we know if progress is tracking well?
What changes will we look for?
What indicators will help answer our key questions?
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Methods/Data sources
What data will we collect and how?
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How is HP being used by the wider health system?
- Have relationships improved between primary, secondary, and tertiary care?
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- Identify opportunities for increased collaboration between primary, secondary, and tertiary care
- Identify any programme barriers
- Determine the usefulness of HP as a vehicle for health system communication and relationship building
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- Focus groups
- Interviews
- Surveys
- Feedback:
- SMEs/CEs
- CWGs
- HP programme team
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Does the pathway development process support collaborative practice across the wider health system?
- Primary
- Secondary
- Tertiary
- NGOs
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- Determine if the collaborative development process of HP has improved partnerships
- Promote better integration of services between health systems
- Identify barriers
- Identify possible improvements
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- Pathway-dependent
- Review feedback
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- Feedback:
- SMEs/CEs
- CWGs
- Clinicians
- NGOs
- HP programme team
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