Wales Emergency Department Experimental Measures: 6 Months On
Historically one of the few ways to measure Emergency Department performance was to look at the 4 & 12 hour targets. The key challenge here is it doesn’t give any valuable information other than how quickly the patient journey was through the Emergency Department, which creates a challenge when trying to look at improvement and transformation as well as patient experience.
As part of the Emergency Department Quality & Delivery Framework (EDQDF) programme the Pioneering KPI’s also known as the Emergency Department Experimental Measures aim to show the bigger picture of the patient journey through an Emergency Department. These experimental measures look beyond the current 4 & 12 hour targets, breaking down the various touch points of the patient journey alongside triage score to help inform positive system transformation to improve resource and patient experience.