PREOMs measure patients' health status, symptoms, abilities, and functional status. They are designed to capture the patient's perspective, via a questionnaire, rather than rely solely on the views of clinicians.
Led by Nick Hunter, the Co-Production Lead for the Provider Collaborative, with representation from three of the four women's secure wards in Kent and Sussex, the working group met to consider existing patient reported outcomes measures, including Dialog, Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) and DUNDRUM, along with experience measures such as Ward Atmosphere Scale, EssenCES and the nationally coproduced PREOM tool for the Women's Secure Pathway transformation programme.
Working group members such as service user PS from the Trevor Gibbens unit took the PREOM options away to discuss and score with other service users within their units.
She said: "Some of the existing tools were very wordy, used outdated language and were difficult for patients to understand. The PREOM tool needs to allow patients to quickly and easily provide feedback."
Feedback from service users was for a visual PREOM tool, which uses simple checkboxes and faces to represent feelings and experiences.
This recommendation was accepted by the Women's Pathway Clinical Reference Group. The next stage will be to implement the PREOMs within women's secure pathway services.
