“We were able to identify our least screened group (as a result of data cleaning). It was quite surprising, as it turned out to be women with intellectual disabilities.”[42]
- Practice Manager, AB Surgery, West Kempsey, NSW
Step 1.1 Review your lists of under-screened patients |
Step 1.2 Seek patient input |
Good preventative care relies on being able to stand back from individual patients in order to understand your practice population and their needs.13
Module 3 guided you through how to extract lists of patients who are overdue for bowel, breast and cervical screening. Module 4 presents an opportunity to analyse your lists of under-screened patients to identify if there are specific patient populations in your practice who are under-screened.
“We were able to identify our least screened group (as a result of data cleaning). It was quite surprising, as it turned out to be women with intellectual disabilities.”[42]
- Practice Manager, AB Surgery, West Kempsey, NSW
Can you answer the following questions about your under-screened patients?*
You will be able to answer some of these questions through practice data, but working with your PHN is also a great way to:
* These questions are adapted from ‘Who are your patients’, pg. 16 of the RACGP’s Putting Prevention into Practice.
Criterion QI 1.2 of the RACGP’s Standards for General Practice 5th Edition requires practices to collect and respond to patient feedback.14
Patient feedback will assist your practice to:
The RACGP’s Patient feedback guide is a comprehensive guide to methods for collecting and acting on patient feedback.