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Essential Steps Programme: (Essential steps to safe, clean care: reducing healthcare-associated infections)

Designed to assist organisations with the national target of reducing avoidable healthcare associated infections, the Synbiotix Essential Steps programme provides a framework with which organisations can work towards and monitor their progress against this target.

The Synbiotix Essential Steps programme is designed to work across organisations, clinical practice areas and clinical teams. It provides a highly intuitive, cost effective and efficient mechanism, whereby organisations can assess their performance, evaluate their current practice against the national guidance and provide immediate visibility of areas for concentrated focus for improvements.

The Essential Steps programme is an electronic web-based system which enables fast and efficient data capture and immediate reporting on the compliance and performance for the Essential Steps. The system also facilitates continuous direct data capture of observations of each of the published Essential Steps(across a selected time period) from the clinical areas and immediately aggregates and analyses the data to produce immediate results.

Results are immediately uploaded into the clinical area dashboard, which in turn immediately populates the organisational Executive Dashboard.

Features of the systems include:

User-friendly designed data capture sheets for clinical areas
Fast, efficient data capture process used by clinical and non-clinical trained staff
Ability to capture data continuously across a time period, with partial save functionality
Observation categories configured at local level, according to organisational requirements
Ability to add in free text notes, comments and attachment files
Automatic calculation of compliance and results and immediate publication of all results
Summary view of ward / clinical area data both in tabular format and graphical representation

Full reporting module for department and organisational report requirements
Dashboard tables and graphs at organisational and clinical area level exportable into Excel, Word or PDF format
Email, alert and prompt notification system for all clinical areas
Ability to configure the system at the local department or organisational level (including full administration features, management of users and passwords, setting result thresholds, adding and changing both audits and questionnaires
Ability to add-on multiple modules
Full User manual, training and support provided

Benefits:

Web-based electronic system enables easy deployment across the organisation. No need to install on separate PC’s. System will operate on standards desktops, laptop computers, portable hand held devices and mobile PC tablets or tough books
User-friendly, fast, efficient and effective system for the implementation and monitoring compliance of the Department of Health Essential Steps Programme
Time saving data capture and automated results publication processes, release time for clinical staff to provide direct patient care
Provision of Reports for Infection Prevention and Control Committees, organisational Clinical Governance and Assurance Committees and Organisational Board reports

Enables improved performance management of organisational challenges
Provision of compliance reports and evidence for performance against national mandatory requirements, Hygiene Code compliance , Health Protection Agency reporting requirements and Care Quality Commission requirements
Full training, user manuals and support from ward to Board provided
System updates and upgrades supplied at free of charge
Clinical advice and support for new organisational requirements provided.