Abstract
Background:
– The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP) aims to drive improvements in the quality of care and services provided forRespiratory patients in England and Wales (RCP / BTS 2017)
– Part of this programme is the continuous audit of admission to hospital for those patients with COPD
– This commenced in April 2017 and currently is scheduled to continue until March 2019
– Best Practice Tariff (BPT) was introduced to improve the proportion of patients who receive specialist respiratory input to their care within 24 hours of admission and completion of a COPD discharge bundle.
Aims:
– Primary aim was to deliver on the COPD BPT
– Secondary aim was to improve the inpatient experience and deliver evidence based care
– This would be evidenced by length of stay, readmission rates and inpatient mortality rates
Methods: Recruited Associate Practitioners, Registered Nurse and Physiotherapist to into Specialist Practioner Roles.
Results: Development of an Inpatient Respiratory Practitioner Team has enabled the Trust to achieve the required 60% for BPT by quarter 3 (Oct-Dec 2017) and thus qualification for the enhanced tariff
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2019; 54: Suppl. 63, PA1262.
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