Title: The new Sheffield clinical pathway for heart failure and the GP open access echo service
1The new Sheffield clinical pathway for heart
failure and the GP open access echo service
- Laurence OToole
- Consultant Cardiologist
2Sheffield PCTs and associated Secondary Care
Trusts
Service review heart failure The performance of
this organisation does not meet minimum
requirements or the reasonable expectations of
patients and the public.
3Assessment The PCT and its associated secondary
care trust(s) ensures good outcomes for patients
by effectively and swiftly diagnosing
patients with heart failure, providing them with
evidence based treatment and monitoring patients
effectively to optimise treatment, detect
deterioration and minimise admissions to
hospital having effective and adequate
multidisciplinary services and care processes
providing patients and their carers with
education and support so that they can play an
active role in the management of their care
4Source Data used for Healthcare Commission Heart
Failure Improvement Review
Results of Acute Hospital Portfolio Sept 2005 100
Patients (50 per site) diagnosed with Heart
Failure
HF REVIEW RESULTS Results FEB 07
(provisional) JULY 07 (published)
BESPOKE QUESTIONNAIRE (MAY/JUNE 06) 7
CATEGORIES (Categorical continuous data items)
CENTRAL RETURNS (QOF, diagnostic returns,
hospital episode statistics)
PLAN IMPROVEMENT PHASE
5Where Sheffield scored poorly
- No dedicated HF clinic
- Long waiting times for echo
- Prescribing consistent with NICE guidance
- Referral to specialist services
- Audit
- Overall mortality and admission rates
6Prescribing consistent with NICE guidance
- patients with proven LVSD prescribed ACEi/ARBs
- national average 85.2 2.7
- PCT source data
- North 79.9
- West 80.8
- SW 80.9
- SE 77.2
7The diagnosis of heart failure
8NICE Guideline Algorithm summarising
recommendations for the diagnosis of heart
failure
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10Outcomes from Current Open Access Echo Service
L OToole RHH data
11Outcomes from Current Open Access Echo Service
L OToole RHH data
12Problems with the Diagnosis of HF in General
Practice
- Symptoms non-specific
- Broad differential diagnosis
- Requires access to specialist investigation
- Difficult to address with time constraints
- Inertia because of complexity of treatment
- Patient reluctance to consider investigations
Barriers to accurate diagnosis and effective
management of heart failure in primary care BMJ
2003326196
13Problems with Echocardiography for GPs
- Uncertainty about interpretation of technical
reports - Perception of long waiting times
- Concerns about overloading the service
- Inconvenience for patients
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16LVSD
Single New Patient Appointment in Consultant
Cardiology Heart Failure Clinic
Reports reviewed and commented on by Consultant
Cardiologist
No major finding or non-LVSD major finding
Back to GP Care
17LVSD
Single New Patient Appointment in Consultant
Cardiology Heart Failure Clinic
Nurse-led drug titration clinic
Back to GP Care
18The new Sheffield in-patient pathway for heart
failure
Hospital admission screening for HF patients by
HF nurses
Preferential admission to HF ward areas
Interested Physician follow up
Better discharge information
Nurse-led post-discharge HF clinic
19The new Sheffield clinical diagnostic pathway for
heart failure
LVSD
Single New Patient Appointment in Consultant
Cardiology Heart Failure Clinic
Reports reviewed and commented on by Consultant
Cardiologist
No major finding or non-LVSD major finding
Back to GP Care
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