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 (up to 50% of entire score)
- 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
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