How good is your MS centre?

How to we measure quality in MS care? #MSBlog #MSResearch

"I am in Canada on a lecture tour and have seen a number of MS centers in the last 5 days; London (Ontario), Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Halifax and tomorrow Montreal. I am impressed. They are well staffed and seem to have much more resource than we do in the NHS. They are also very collaborative and share a lot. They all focus on quality. And some centres are measuring metrics that would allow one to compare centres with each other. Canadian MSers have it better than most."

"Quality in healthcare, measuring it and sharing the data is an important change agent. What we need to do is define it and measure and it see what happens. This is something we are trying to do in within the UCLP network in London. Some of the figures are surprising; it is truly amazing to see the wide variation in metrics that relate to quality of care, for example hospital admission rates for MSers and length of stay. This topic is close to my heart and something we need to focus on more closely if we have any chance of getting the MS community to accept and adopt the zero tolerance strategy and treat-2-target of NEDA."

"If you have the time you will find the following TED talk interesting."

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