How improved patient flow has meant no out-of-area placements for two years

CNWL’s COO, Graeme Caul, describes how it achieved long standing OOA placement cessation to HSJ.

Central and North West London utilised our market leading mental health visibility support. As Graeme describes “there is no shortcut to improving acute mental health care. But there is a formula: understand your demand, know your patients, and bring clinical and operational leaders together to act with purpose – every day of the year.” “We began by really understanding our data”

VOT staff developed the pathway visibility local decision makers needed at CNWL to “hold a weekly whole-system event that brings together clinical and operational leaders from across the trust to review data, examine trends, identify delays, and agree on the actions needed to keep the system moving. It’s a model that combines real-time responsiveness with strategic, cross-system insight.”

Read more via the HSJ article link https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/how-improved-patient-flow-meant-no-out-of-area-placements-for-two-years/7039421.article