Croydon HTT Value-based Healthcare

Healthcare organisations using electronic patient records collect large amounts of information that can be used to judge the quality of the care that they are providing, and its value (how quality relates to costs). We want to establish a programme of work at Croydon Home Treatment team that will gradually allow us to increase the number of measures of care quality that we have available to us, starting with some simple measures such as the proportion of our service users who are seen by a doctor within 72 hours and the proportion who have their medication properly recorded in their records. We will also be able to calculate the cost of each episode of care. We want to do this work using CRIS which is a collection of anonymised health records. We will be able to look at how our performance changes over time, and we will also be able to compare ourselves to other Home Treatment Teams operated by SLaM. Our aim is to increase quality and increase value.