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The COMPASS Programme
Discover a way to get clear direction in your wound care in a climate of increasing healthcare pressures.
What is the COMPASS Programme?
With various implications for patients, providers, and payers alike, the prevalence of life-threatening chronic wounds is rising. Patients often present multi-comorbidities and chronic conditions. These increase the costs & complexities of care at a time of increasing pressure to achieve effective and timely wound healing.
Watch the below video to understand value-based care in and how Smith+Nephew can deliver it for wound care services.
Value-Based Healthcare
The COMPASS Programme aims to:
- Improve patient satisfaction
- Improve service utilisation
- Reduce total health system costs
- Improve staff resources
All through using data driven insights to enhance wound care practices.*
It might seem impossible to achieve these objectives under the current pressures on clinician time, budgets and expectations…but there’s now a new approach.
To support the shift from volume to value-based care, our COMPASS Programme is a simple, 4-step process designed to share the burden of practice change and provide clear direction in your wound care. We’ll aim to provide:
- Standardised processes: Using selected vendors for simplified and effective solutions that aim to reduce paperwork and administrative tasks
- Clear economic benefits while limiting financial risk: Including structured supply chain logistics, stock management and outcomes-based contracts (so you pay for the results you achieve)
- Data-driven insights: Designed to adapt and deliver an informed and measurable impact on your long-term objectives
- Strategies for chronic wounds and closed surgical incisions: Aim to mitigate the rise in chronic wounds and the prevalence of surgical site complications1-6
COMPASS: a 4-step, value-based change programme, powered by your data
COMPASS is a tailored approach that will give you clear, personalised insights to help you make informed, measurable impact in your wound care. COMPASS empowers you and your teams with the right information to provide value based, cost effective wound care.
Let’s take a look at the 4 steps in more detail.
Meet the team
If you're a senior leader in the NHS, the best way to understand the value of The COMPASS Programme is to reach out to your local System Transformation Specialist who can provide detailed insights into your wound care service.
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* Specific outcomes from implementing The COMPASS Programme process are not guaranteed.
** Financial support strategies are dependent on results from the WOUND COMPASS Practice Review Tool audit, and do not guarantee specific results.
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