QIS2012 - The Standard for Health Management Programmes and Interventions is the new Standard developed by QISMET which will be universally applicable and therefore offers providers of newer programmes the opportunity to apply for certification
QISMET is to get up to £335,000 to test and develop innovative approaches to improve health and wellbeing, Care Services Minister Paul Burstow announced.
Hot on the heels of launching the Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME) Standard in November 2011, QISMET began work on a universal standard in December 2011.
QISMET conducted three phases of consultation with the Reference Group and more widely via the web site, which conluded in early April 2012 and published QIS2012 - The Standard for Health Management Programmes and Interventions 23 April 2012. This represents the first and most major step in developing a 'universal standard' as it contains the core requirements needed to cover all dimensions common to provision of any type of health management programme.
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Since 2008, the need to develop a standard which can be applied to providers of the full breadth of health management programmes and interventions has gathered pace as the increase in the number of and variation of approaches has accelerated and structural changes in commissioning and provision of health care services are beginning to take effect. The plan to include commissioning of self management support services under ‘Any Qualified Provider’ from 2013 is particularly relevant, as the absence of a standard and certification process which can be equally applied to all self management providers makes it difficult for commissioners to know who offers high quality service delivery; and for providers to demonstrate with any objectivity that they offer a high quality service.
Therefore, QISMET’s purpose and aim in developing a universal standard (QIS2012) and certification is to assure the delivery of consistently high quality self management and self care support services and other types of health management intervention within local systems of care.
Producing a universal standard is an ambitious project and although it is recognised that there are many dimensions in developing, managing and delivering high quality health management interventions which are common to all, it is also clear that there will be a need for additional requirements (subsets) in the Standard which will cover topic areas that are specific to, for example, either the ‘genre’ of the health management intervention; how the intervention is carried out; or the population the programme is for; or license conditions unique to a particular programme.
Consequently, QISMET is taking a ‘family tree’ approach to the universal standard, by firstly producing the ‘core’ requirements that are contained in QIS2012, covering dimensions which are common to all; further developments of the universal standard will focus on developing the necessary additional requirements specific to particular topic areas. QISMET will deploy the same method for this, involving people who have experience, knowledge and expertise in those areas – either as participants, providers, researchers, or commissioners – in the project team, reference group and auditor pool.
Announcements of further phases of development of the universal standard will be made via this web site.
Utilising the ‘family tree’ approach will enable QISMET to tailor each audit to match the full health management service provision profile of each provider, which in turn means that it will be possible to begin to develop consistent benchmarking within the sector and enable systematic comparison of performance between providers.
