1. Our community rehabilitation service also completes the 6 month review, and we are registered as one service on SSNAP. If a patient either requires no therapy or has been discharged before 6 months, do we need to keep the record open to complete the 6 month review?
No. The 6 month assessment will be completed using the 6 month look-up tool for all patients and so completed separately to the rest of the record. If a patient has been discharged from the service before 6 months, then this should be recorded as such on SSNAP and the record locked to discharge. This advice (Qs 12 and 13) should be followed for patients that did not receive an assessment or did not require any therapy. The 6 month assessment can then be completed at 6 months.
Guidance on using the 6 month look-up tool is available here.
2. On the new 6-month dataset, how will the reviewers know which patients to search for? Do they need to be sent a referral outside of SSNAP? Our teams currently use their SSNAP list as their referral system.
The teams completing the 6-month assessment will not receive a list of records transferred from SSNAP to know which patients need to be assessed. Instead, the teams completing the assessment will search for patients on SSNAP. Some suggestions from teams to get around this include:
- Using electronic discharge summaries
- Setting up a waiting list on SystemOne and providing access to the 6-month assessment providers so they are aware of the patients requiring assessment.