Please follow these tips below to improve your audit compliance score
All teams
- Keep the number of 'not known' to a bare minimum
- Transfer records in advance of transfer deadlines
- Lock records as close to real-time as possible
- Communicate regularly with teams across the local care pathway to ensure a joined-up approach to SSNAP
Routinely admitting teams
- Submit all stroke patients to the audit
- Ensure NIHSS on arrival and post thrombolysis is fully complete
- If transferring to another inpatient team, do not lock to discharge
Non-routinely admitting teams
- Complete and discharge or transfer all records for patients discharged within the quarter
- Chase up acute teams slow to transfer records
- If transferring to another inpatient team, do not lock to discharge
ESD and CRT teams
- Complete and discharge or transfer all records for patients discharged within the quarter
- Chase up teams slow to transfer records
- Ensure records are locked promptly so that 6 month assessment data can be entered
6 month assessment providers
- Consult the guidance on finding records for 6 month assessment
- Agree local data submission procedures with teams who treat the patients you assess
- Lock data promptly for assessments provided
- Collaborate with teams to ensure they lock their records so that you can enter data
Any delay in a previous team transferring a record on the webtool will count against the subsequent teams, and this can negatively impact the subsequent teams' audit compliance score.
This is because "Number of days from when the patient is discharged from the team's care to when the record is locked to discharge" is calculated using the day the patient was discharged form the team and the day the patient record was locked by that team.
If the record is transferred to the team two weeks after the patient has been discharged, the team will automatically have at least a minimum 14 day delay. If an earlier team are transferring the records late, we recommend teams contact the earlier team to get them to transfer the record earlier.
A list of contacts for all teams is available to logged in users. Please go to Resources > Team Codes and Contacts and download either the Inpatient teams or Non-inpatient teams spreadsheet.