Hospice admissions audit

Posted: 09 April 2024
How five hospices in the North West of London worked together to gather data about 20 admissions on the same day in January 2023.

How five hospices in the North West of London worked together to gather and analyse data about 20 admissions on the same day in January 2023.

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Project overview

Harlington Hospice, St Lukes Hospice, Meadow House Hospice, St Johns Hospice and Royal Trinity Hospice all provide care in the North West London Integrated Care System (ICS). They worked together to develop a collaborative approach to data sharing.

They collected demographic and clinical data about 20 consecutive admissions in each hospice on a specific day in January 2023 (this gave a cohort of 100 admissions in total).

They also asked two qualitative questions:

  • What would have kept the patient at home?
  • What alternative settings could safely have cared for that person?
A discussion about how data can help hospices tell their story within a national context

Outcomes

Watch a recording of Dr Ros Taylor, Medical Director, Harlington Hospice, giving an overview of the project at our National Conference in 2023.

She explained more about the audit, shared the key findings and described what’s next.

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