Adapting a care quality tool for use in learning disability services

Penney, Jo

Jo Penney is a quality improvement manager, States of Guernsey Health and Social Care; Jim Blair is learning disability adviser, States of Guernsey Health and Social Care, and associate professor of learning disability nursing (Hon), Kingston University and St George's, University of London.

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Nursing Times 116(12):p 24-26, December 2020.

Abstract

A tool that monitors whether care is safe, clean and personal every time originally evolved from the nursing assessment and accreditation system, and was recently adapted for use by a learning disability service in Guernsey. The tool includes questions about different standards of a department's care; the answers are used to assign a colour to a department to denote its quality. Audits are carried out regularly, and where parts of the learning disability department have areas for improvement they have changed them quickly as a result. Staff feedback is positive and there are plans to formulate bespoke, autism-specific questions for a newly opened local centre.

Citation Penney J, Blair J (2020) Adapting a care quality tool for use in learning disability services. Nursing Times; 116: 12, 24–26

In this article…

Methods of measuring care quality and how they have evolved
Adapting and implementing the safe, clean and personal every time (SCAPE) tool
A learning disability department's audit results and the subsequent improvements made