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Improving Surgical Outcomes
Optimising surgical outcomes has been another key area of focus for the Clinical Board’s Quality Improvement (QI) work and is of great importance to our patients, clinical teams, and clients.
We are proud of the fantastic job our teams are already doing out in practice to achieve positive surgical outcomes and protect patient safety. By measuring this we can celebrate our current successes, but also identify areas for possible intervention. Harnessing QI in this way enables us to get better at progressing practice for the benefit of all. By sharing our successes at a team level, we can assist colleagues across our business and identify possible points of intervention for the wider profession.
We know that concentrating on appropriate analgesia can reduce wound interference, as well as bringing other benefits such as reductions in the volume of isoflurane used – a potent greenhouse gas. Further, reducing wound infections reduces the amount of antibiotics we need to prescribe. We all have a responsibility to practice good antimicrobial stewardship, safeguard patient safety and protect our clinical outcomes.
We have recently begun to publish key highlights of our ongoing QI work in this area, and you can find out more below, along with examples of how we are optimising surgical safety across our small animal, farm and equine teams.
Equine
Equine Castration Audit - 1st Year Report
This document contains the results from an ongoing audit of equine castrations carried out by colleagues working within VetPartners.
Equine Castration Survey
This document summarises the results of a VetPartners survey conducted between June and November 2020, which aimed to find out how equine castrations were performed.
Farm
Cow Caesar Audit 2024: A full report following three years of data collection
This report contains the full results from an audit of bovine caesareans carried out by colleagues working within VetPartners during the last three years.
Caesar Audit Report 2022
This document contains the results from an audit of bovine caesareans carried out by colleagues working within VetPartners between 2021 and 2022.
At VetPartners we are fortunate to have an engaging and approachable Clinical Board Support Team (CBST) with both clinical and extensive research experience. To learn more about the work of the CBST and how they empower our teams to undertake clinical quality improvement and research, click here.
To find out more about the work we do visit VetPartners Learning or email us at clinical.board@vetpartnersgroup.com
