Yvonne Wijdeven, project manager of GGZ inGeest (formerly Stichting Buitenamstel Geestgronden)"explains that she was involved with the project on recovery care. From this, a first recovery group with seven clients was set up, headed by experience experts in December 2008. The staff involved in the project now have a pivotal role in ensuring that promoting recovery oriented care remains high on the agenda. " |
Sharing examples from practice gives quality boost to GGZCare that falls short. Care that leaves gaps. Care that places a one-sided emphasis on mental health problems. In order to address these shortcomings, the Trimbos Institute launched its national campaign ‘Care for Better Health’ in 2007. Now, over 120 improvement teams are working to achieve measurable quality improvements. |
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Learning from each other. Sharing helpful examples from practice as well as professional advice and proven methodology. This is the philosophy behind the national campaign ‘Care for Better Health’ [Zorg voor Beter]. The aim of the programme is to implement best practices and achieve measurable quality improvements in organisations for long-term care. read more >> |
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One of the main spearheads of the improvement project ‘Interference Care’ [Bemoeizorg] is greater continuity of care. A problem encountered by many interference-care teams is that there is insufficient coordination in the care chain. Contacts and care projects that have been set up with great effort are consequently often broken off or discontinued. It is then that clients run the risk of giving up in disappointment.
The final improvement project ‘The body as well as the mind’ aims to provide better physical care within the mental health services. Because of medication use and unhealthy lifestyles, mental health patients often struggle with obesity, diabetes and cardio-vascular illnesses. This situation often remains under-recognised. Therefore this improvement project aims to promote better physical care within organisations and better physical health in the clients themselves. For all four projects, improvement teams work on one of the above themes for a year. Based on nationally established goals, they set out specific improvement targets, which are laid down in a work strategy containing a measurement plan. Then they use the new measurement and treatment instruments to achieve the goals established. The Trimbos Institute provides support in this process. In 2009 improvement teams are also set to tackle the combined project themes of ‘Health and Medication Safety’ and ‘Recovery and Social Participation’.
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'Preliminary results are encouraging'"Sonja van Rooijen, project manager of the Care for Better Health projects claims the initial results show that the improvement projects are making a contribution to better quality of life. In the Interference Care project, over a third of the clients with chronic psychiatric problems experienced an improvement in their financial situation, living circumstances and daily occupation. And these are the very areas in which serious problems tend to be found. "
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