CFEP UK Surveys

Primary Care Trusts

PCTs come back to CFEP year after year for the quality of our reports and our ability to deliver.

When PCTs approach us to undertake the QOF patient experience survey (IPQ or GPAQ), we provide a PCT report incorporating all practice/ service results. We will look after the whole process for you and deal direct with all practices if you would like us to. We will also carry out PCT-wide reporting for the Pharmacy survey. In fact, we can carry out a PCT-wide survey for any area on which you wish to concentrate your governance. Nursing services and dental services are examples.

PCT-wide results include practice-by-practice or service-by-service results, allowing you to see and compare each practice’s strengths and weaknesses. Results are sent in strict confidence to a named PCT manager. We can easily and economically create bespoke elements to your results, allowing you to group data in a way that best measures your organisation. When available, we provide comparative data from other PCTs. Reports always contain explanatory documents to help you make the most of your results.

CFEP has developed dedicated survey materials designed specifically to give patients seeking out-of-hours care a chance to feedback their experiences on the advice they have received.

The OPQ is designed to help Out-of-Hours care providers to improve care and services offered to patients. It is used by GP out-of-hours organisations to measure patient perceptions of the care that they received at night-time and at the weekends. For more information see our Out of Hours page.

CFEP UK Surveys and the Peninsula Medical School (PMS) undertook academic validity studies of the General Medical Council’s (GMC) instruments in 2006.  CFEP is now able to offer Acute Trusts a complete survey package made up of the GMC’s questionnaires.

The GMC has now commissioned CFEP UK Surveys to make their patient and colleague questionnaires available to doctors throughout the NHS and private sector.

Trusts undertaking this survey will benefit from early exposure to the process model used to administer the GMC tools. This learning would be useful for feeding into forward planning and resource management processes. For more information see our 360 degree/MSF page.

PROMS are validated questionnaires that patients may be asked to complete before and after they have some procedure done in a healthcare organisation. The questionnaires are usually designed to be easily filled in, with a number of tick boxes so that responses can be counted or scored in some way. They may just offer a total score or a number of subtotals in different areas of one’s health such as sleep, pain, energy, physical functioning, social functioning, etc. For more information see our PROMS page.

PPiC is used by both Primary and Secondary Care clinicians whose patients have a long-term condition.  The primary objective is to provide feedback to the clinician about the clinicians' ability to motivate and empower their patient to self-care. This survey is a fundamental element of the Advanced Development Course for Clinicians (ADP) itself part of a £5 million nation-wide initiative commissioned by The Health Foundation.  Over 500 clinicians are participating in this initiative over 3 years. For more information see our Self-management page.

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