1. Neonatal Quality Dashboard
Gayle Budden
South West Neonatal Networks Manager
South West Specialised Commissioning Group

2. South West Specialised Commissioning Group
Neonatal Dashboard
Part of national transition work on quality
Work overseen by a multidisciplinary short life working group under the governance of SCG Director’s Group
The working group was multidisciplinary and had national representation
Working group met remotely four times over last summer
South West Specialised Commissioning Group

3. South West Specialised Commissioning Group
Neonatal Dashboard
Long list of potential dashboard measures collected, scored and refined
Three dashboards have been agreed, one for networks, one for NICUs and one for LNUs/SCUs.
The measures on the 3 dashboards have been submitted to the transition group and accepted
South West Specialised Commissioning Group

4. Example Dashboard Measures
Measure Reference (NICE/NNAP/ Toolkit (TK) Principle / CQC standards)
Measurement definition
Numerator
Denominator
Numerator Data Source
Denominator Data Source
Retinopathy screening
NICE-9(c) & NNAP-3(2011)
Proportion of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who receive specialist neonatal care and undergo retinopathy screening as per the current guidelines recommendations prior to discharge from hospital
Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501g who undergo retinopathy screening in line with current guideline recommendations prior to discharge from hospital
Number of babies born at less than 32 weeks of gestation and/or with a birth weight less than 1501 g, receiving specialist neonatal care and discharged from hospital
Badger
Babies with NEC
NDAU
Number of babies who have a confirmed diagnosis of NEC in accordance with NDAU defintion
Number of babies who have confirmed NEC
Total number of babies in specialised neonatal care
Cot occupancy
NICE-2(c), TK Principle 8 (8.5)
Bed occupancy for each level of care
Occupied beddays per month
Available beddays per month (based on staffing at each level of care). Based on established staffing rather than actual staffing per shift.
Cot declaration

5. Neonatal Dashboard – next steps
Work has now moved to a working group that is responsible for the creation of databooks
To be implemented from April 2012
Will be a CQUIN for Trusts to be collecting dashboards
South West Specialised Commissioning Group