You must undertake Patient Survey once every five years
This is a potentially difficult area for the OOH doctor in which to gather evidence for appraisal. It will be much easier if you can arrange it with the support of the OOH service manager.
Some OOH organisations will use their own patient survey tools. These may be of help to you, but some of them will focus on organisational issues with only a small element that relates to your personal performance.
This section of the OOH Toolkit contains examples of tools that have been used in general practice to survey patients' views and also to assess doctor/patient communications:
In all cases you will need to prepare in advance.
It is suggested you contact the service manager before starting a session at the treatment centre, and ensure that you will be able to get the reception staff to assist you by:
You may find it helpful to offer to share the results of the survey with the service at a later date, but this exercise is aimed primarily at allowing you to review your own skills. The OOH service is likely to want to survey other aspects of its work over which you may have no control, so our advice is to keep these two aspects of patient surveys as separate exercises.
The GMC questionnaire. The GMC has produced a generic questionnaire for all doctors to use if they wish. It is available via http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/revalidation/colleague_patient_feedback.asp
CARE. The CARE measure is entirely doctor-centred, and its content is largely independent of where you work or whether the patient knows you. Again, it is free.
The CARE Measure Website (stir.ac.uk)
Patient enablement indicator questionnaire (PEI)
You can undertake an enablement questionnaire more easily as an individual and the questionnaire is included in the Toolkit.
It is much shorter and more specific about the outcome of your consultations than CARE, but it is not always relevant to the reason that a patient may be consulting.
Patient Enablement Indicator
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