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Using SSNAP reports for Quality Improvement

Summary reports
High level summary of team-level performance and clinical trends over time. Highlights clinical areas of good, adequate and poor performance

Includes information about:
  • Performance levels (A-E) across 10 clinical domains
  • Performance levels across 44 key indicators of care
  • Data quality
Use this report to:
  • Quickly understand overall levels of service provision
  • Quickly identify areas to focus QI action plans  
Team/regional slideshows
Team-level/Regional slideshows with visualisations of results to see changes over time by key indicator

Includes information about:
  • Changes over time across all key indicators
  • "At a glance" visualisations of results to highlight trends over time and regional comparisons
Use this report to:
  • Track improvements or deterioration over time across measured indicators
  • Identify trends in clinical care to inform QI projects         
Quarterly results portfolio
Detailed quarterly spreadsheet providing results for all measures collected in SSNAP

Includes information about:
  • Patient case mix
  • tPa/IAT complications
  • Length of stay
  • Infection rates
  • Care home admissions
Use this report to:
  • Fully understand your SSNAP data
  • Interrogate specific data items of interest for QI
  • Identify underlying causes for good/poor performance
Annual results portfolio
Annual spreadsheet of all results for all measures collected, includes five years of annual results

Includes information about:
  • All admissions and discharges over financial years
  • 5 years results presented alongside to allow comparisons 
Use this report to:
  • Track improvements/changes over a 5 year time period, across measured indicators
  • Identify trends in clinical care to inform QI projects
Thrombolysis breakdown
Thrombolysis at patient level

Includes information about:
  • Patient outcomes
  • Clinical measures specifically related to thrombolysis
Use this report to:
  • Review all thrombolysis cases at a patient level
  • Understand why patients did not receive thrombolysis
  • Identify trends in clinical care (related to thrombolysis) to inform QI projects

Find us

Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme
Kings College London
Addison House
Guy's Campus
London
SE1 1UL

Support

0116 464 9901
ssnap@kcl.ac.uk