Patient Partnership in Care: A new instrument in measuring patient-professional partnership in the treatment of long-term conditions.
Journal of Management & Marketing in Healthcare.
Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 325-342.
The paper
reinforces the value and usefulness of PPiC. It not only confirms that the
questionnaire is valid, reliable and sensitive to change, but the
before-and-after study of the effect of the workshops shows that in the after
study health professionals attain significantly improved scores for partnership
skills and that patients’ confidence to self manage their conditions is
similarly increased. In fact the paper demonstrates that the better the
partnership that a patient has with their health professional then the more
confidence they have in caring for themselves.
In practice,
routine use of the PPiC with patients having various LTCs will enable a wide
range of health professionals to monitor the degree of patient-perceived
partnership that they have with them. Our reports allow specific partnership
skills to be pinpointed that may require improvement and to monitor the effect
of developing these. They will also have a measure of the level of confidence
that patients have to care for themselves in a supportive environment.
Currently, there
are no other questionnaires which measure how confident patients are in managing
their LTC in relation to the partnership with their clinician.
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Self-management
The subject of long-term conditions and patient enablement is attracting a
lot of interest. CFEP has produced a questionnaire to meet this interest. It is
called the Patient Partnership in Care (PPiC) and has been piloted and fully
validated.
The PPiC is a fundamental component of the Advanced
Development Course for Clinicians (ADP) a course designed to
improve and enhance a clinicians' ability to promote patient
self-care. The ADP course is delivered by CFEP as part of a
collaborative £5 million nation-wide initiative, CCHi,
commissioned by The Health Foundation.
The PPIC survey is used by clinicians to help them gain insight into how
confident their patients feel about self-managing their condition.
PPiC is a validated tool containing 16 items for the patient to answer. It is
used in both Primary and Secondary care and is usually run as a
post-consultation exit survey.
A questionnaire is given to consecutive patients by receptionists, administration staff or
clinicians themselves. The questionnaire is accompanied by a sealable envelope
so that patients can be confident that their responses remain anonymous to
the clinic or practice. Returning the completed questionnaires to CFEP is
usually achieved by posting the contents of the collecting box in bulk – although
we can easily accommodate other modes of collection.
We generally require 25 completed questionnaires per clinician.
We provide a report exclusively and confidentially to clinicians. It includes
all written comments, summary tables (with demographics) and graphs. Results
also contain benchmark scores from other clinicians. Support material to help
you to act on your results and further encourage self-care is included.