Increase alcohol recording in your practice
About this activity
Use the QI template below to better record patients’ alcohol status and meet the requirements for the PIP QI Incentive.
Goal
Increase the percentage of patients over 15 who have had an alcohol status recorded in the past 12 months.
Measures
POLAR measure: Percentage of patients with an alcohol status recorded.
Improvement ideas
- Use PIP QI Report in POLAR to pull a list of patients without an alcohol consumption status recorded in their GP record.
- Address your improvement target at a clinical meeting and demonstrate how to complete the AUDIT-C assessment in your clinical software.
- Conduct a targeted blitz to ask all patients between a specified age range (such as 15-25 or 26-35 years, changing the age each week), or
- Designate a particular day each week to focus on it and aim to ask everyone.
Download the QI template below for more improvement ideas.
