Project information
National System to Monitor Quality of Hospital Based Stroke Services
Key dates
Start Date: November 2002
Expected Finish Date: October 2005
Budget
451,136.19
Key contacts
Project Contact: Ms Robin Flaig
Email: robin.flaig@ed.ac.uk
Lead Grantholder: Dr Martin Dennis, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU
Project Aims
To develop a national system to:
- Routinely monitor the performance of Scottish hospitals against nationally agreed standards for stroke care identified by the Scottish Stroke Standards Group and the CSBS.
- To monitor progress against goals set by the strategy developed by the CHD & Stroke Reference group.
- To facilitate an ongoing programme of national time limited audits of specific aspects of stroke care directed by the Intercollegiate Scottish Stroke Collaboration.
- To enhance the value of collecting routine outcome indicators for stroke by collecting data to allow fuller adjustment for variations in casemix.
- To improve the accuracy of routinely collected hospital discharge data.
- To drive improvements in the organisation and delivery of stroke care and encourage sharing of good practice and adherence to best evidence.