Why Benchmark Play

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Why Benchmark Play ?

• North West Paediatric Play Benchmarking UCLAN

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What is Play Benchmarking?

• Measuring best practice together
• with play practitioners
• children , young people families /carers
• nursing
• AHP
• clinical staff

• 5 Robust play practitioner compiled play
  benchmarks
• toys ,equipment accommodation security
  safety
• preparation to healthcare and discharge
• psychological preparation diversional therapy
• play practitioners resources
• teenager care

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What is Benchmarking?

• Honesty
• Sharing
• Improving paediatric healthcare
• Achieving best practice
• teamwork

• Support
• Networking
• Action planning
• listening to USERS
• leadership

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Play PractitionersHard at Work
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Who Participates in Play Benchmarking ?

• Barrow In Furness DGH
• Blackburn DGH
• Blackpool DGH
• Burnley DGH
• Central Manchester PCT
• Cumberland DGH
• Derian House Hospice
• Darlington Community PCT
• Durham DGH/community PCT
• Eden valley Hospice
• Fairfield Bury DGH
• Francis House Hospice
• Isle Of Man DGH
• Leighton DGH
• Macclesfield DGH
• Manchester Childrens
• North Stafford DGH
• Ormskirk Southport hospital DGH
• Royal Oldham DGH

• Rochdale DGH
• Royal Lancaster DGH
• Royal Liverpool children's
• St Mary's DGH /children's
• Stepping Hill Stockport DGH
• Tameside DGH
• Trafford DGH
• Walton DGH
• Whiston DGH
• Wythenshawe DGH
• Wigan DGH
• Wrexham DGH
• Interested Areas
• Belfast childrens
• Bolton DGH
• Glan Clwyd Wales
• Great Ormond Street Childrens
• Warrington DGH

Frances Binns North West Play Benchmarking
Facilitator UCLAN Therapeutic Specialised Play
Consultant November 2005
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Professional Opinions

• Boosts our Egos
• Gave me the courage to be the childs advocate
• Gives us motivation
• To know your not alone
• informative

• Improves personal and professional development
• Help develop policies, guidelines and
  procedures.
• Standardised practice
• Better training
• Improved health safety in play

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Toys Equipment Security Safety

• Outcomes
• Frequency of cleaning policy
• infection control
• Risk Assessments
• Action plans
• Safe systems of work policies
• I.e No /limited acceptance of donated toys

• Budget ordering management
• Equality and diversity
• Access to play
• inclusive of ethnicity and disability
• Designated play areas
• environments

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Preparation to Hospital/Healthcare Discharge

• Outcomes
• Prepare on ward/area if an emergency admission
• Pre -op clinics
• children less traumatised
• Familiarising children families with the
  environment , staff equipment

• Well teddy clinics
• making them aware of what might happen to them
  If they came as an emergency
• in Community
• schools.nurseries
• guides, brownies, cubs
• Follow up visits post procedure play
• home hospital
• special preparation
• re ethnicity, disability and special procedures

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Psychological Preparation and Diversional Therapy

• Outcomes
• Documentation
• protocols for preparation and distraction
• Audits
• preparation distraction
• home visits
• Communication
• programme documentation of play preparation
  distraction
• evaluating the service
• recommendations
• Action plans

• promoting listening to children and families
  other professionals
• training educating other disciplines
• the role of the HPS
• Resources
• equipment
• budget.funding
• improving information through developing
• new resources
• communication between home hospital
• home visits/support

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Play Practitioner Resources

• Outcomes
• standardising all play practitioners trained to
  Hospital play specialists
• Increase in recruitment of play specialists
• workforce planning
• more play managers,
• play co- ordinators,
• senior play specialists
• Identified no play service in the country holds a
  budget for play provision only via charitable
  funding
• better training/learning development
• support /supervision

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Teenage Care

• Devised by consultation with young people 12
  years - 18years
• Throughout the North West
• Improved teenage provision
• teenager recreation environments
• more computers , games stations in healthcare
• better information and communication
• identified support groups
• highlighted a training need for all
  professionals

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