Projects

Investigate the use of PROMS & PREMS in allied health
- Detail pending
Best practice statement for allied health data collection
- Detail pending
Defining ‘value’ for allied health
- Detail pending
Position statement for allied health staffing: acute and rehabilitation for adults within tertiary teaching hospitals
- The purpose of this position statement is to provide guidance for appropriate staffing and activity levels for core allied health professions within acute and rehabilitation adult tertiary teaching hospitals.
- This document is a genuine attempt to develop a minimum requirement for allied health staffing within acute and rehabilitation hospital settings within tertiary teaching hospitals to facilitate patient discharge in a timely manner and address allied health satisfaction levels.
- This document should be used when establishing new services or reviewing existing services, to look at available clinical care or analytic methods.

Reviewing alignment with the National Best Practice Data Sets
- This project is reviewing the alignment of allied health within AAHBC facilities with the National Best Practice Data sets.
- Document published for access by members only

Investigate issues with accessing data within the the electronic medical record
- This project is reviewing issue with accessing data entered by allied health within the electronic medical record
- Document published for access by members only

Clinical care ratio review
- This project is an update to previous AAHBC CCR work and is reviewing time spent by allied health in clinical versus non-clinical activities.

Staff Benchmarking Model
- An Allied Health Staffing model has been devised which utilises Acute Admitted Activity and the corresponding Allied Health Activity to derive an EFT per bed for each Clinical Group e.g. General Medicine / Orthopaedics / Neurology.
- The model can be used to allow benchmarking of sites at various levels (slices) and across various years. These slices also includes the key crosstab of EFT per bed for each profession for each clinical group. See link for our 2017-18 data below.
- The model can also be used for benchmarking of a Service (site & profession) against nominated peer(s) (the Benchmark)
- The model is in the process of being refreshed with more recent data, under a research project.