Tips for improving your audit compliance score

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