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Remote reviews

We are delighted to announce that our peer reviews are now back up and running. As you might be aware, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we have had to cancel our face to face peer reviews, to protect the safety and well-being our members and staff.

The project team have been busy adapting our peer review processes to enable services, going forward, to receive a high-quality and thorough peer review remotely. Whilst the principles of peer review will remain the same, the aspects of the review visit have been adapted to ensure that members still receive a comprehensive review remotely. The remote review will use technology and online tools to conduct interviews, discussions, and reviews of evidence. We have also reviewed our standards in the light of Covid-19 and have created additional guidance where current restrictions make it difficult to meet certain standards.  

To learn more about the new remote review process, and how members can get started with their self-review, please refer to the following documents:

QNOAMHS will be scheduling remote review visits shortly and will be prioritising services whose visits were postponed due to COVID-19.

In the meantime, we encourage all members in need of a peer-review to begin work on their self-review.

To sign up to a review, members must visit our Knowledge Hub forum, where they can allocate their ward name to an available date.

We use a process of peer and self-review to support our members in improving the quality of their services.

We review them against standards for older age wards (5th edition) which are a framework to assess the quality of services.

We offer a variety of membership options including both developmental options and accreditation.

All membership options include:

  • A report specific to your ward
  • The opportunity to be a peer reviewer on organised visits to other services
  • Reduced rates at our Annual Forum and Special Interests Days
  • Annual report of how members are meeting the standards
  • Regular newsletters of what innovative practice is happening in other older age services
  • Being part of the email discussion group

We offer a variety of membership options:

Developmental

This membership’s best for:

  • Services who want to focus on the specific areas of the standards that are most useful to them
  • New members of the network who’ve not had experience with the standards before
  • Services who feel unable to go through the accreditation process
  • Services who want to prepare for accreditation in the future

What’s involved?

  • You’ll self-review your service against the standards over a three month period
  • A peer review team will visit your service for one day and help you identify your areas of achievements and ways to improve your service
  • You’ll receive a report of finds from the review day

How much is it?

£2000 + VAT per year

Accreditation

This membership’s best for:

  • Services who meet a set standard to achieve accreditation

What’s involved?

  • You’ll self-review your service against the standards over a three month period. This will include completion of patient, carer, staff and referred questionnaires and a health record audit
  • You’ll self-review your service against the standards over a three month period. This will include completion of patient, carer, staff and referral/partner agency questionnaires and a health record audit
  • Your draft report will be discussed by the accreditation committee who will decide if your service can be accredited
  • Once awarded, accreditation lasts up to three years subject to terms and conditions

How much is it?

£2310 + VAT per year

Associate

This membership’s best for:

  • Services who want to take advantage of the benefits of membership but may have financial constraints
  • Services undergoing reconfiguration or have a mixed function
  • Services outside of the UK

What’s involved?

You’ll complete a self-review against the standards. You’ll then receive an individualised report based on your reported performance against standards, benchmarking data and action planning templates.

How much is it?

£500 + VAT per year (membership option is available for one year only as preparation for developmental membership).

If you have any questions about Quality Network for Older Adults Mental Health Services please contact the Project Team: op@rcpsych.ac.uk

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