Collecting Information



The information your patients provides can help you and your patient communicate more effectively about how they are, what they need treatment for and how they are getting on.

It may be useful to collect all this information in one place. One way of keeping this information is the Making Cases Count summary sheet. This sheet summarises all your information for each patient in one place. You might find this informaiton helps you quickly assess the effects of different types of treatments on your patients' symptoms and their overall wellbeing.

The summary sheet is downloadable as a Word document so you can adapt it for your practice.

The information you collect can be helpful in many ways....

 

The information you collect (once anonymised) can also help you communicate more effectively with other stakeholders – future patients, other therapists, other healthcare practitioners, commissoners of healthcare (charities, NHS) and funders (e.g. healthcare insurers). Researchers interested in different disease, conditions and therapies will also find this information useful.


Below are examples of reports that have been produced. All have used the MYMOP outcome measure. 

Unpublished reports

Audit of 100 consultations by symptom category (Alan Barker)

 

Making Cases Count Reports

Caroline Jurdon

Theresa Eriksen

Valerie Gawel and Felicity Legan

NHS treatment by homeopaths in a community menopause clinic (Clare Relton & Elaine Weatherley-Jones)



The impact of NHS based primary care complementary therapy services on health outcomes and NHS costs: a review of service audits and evaluations (Lesley Wye et al)



Evaluation of a CAM pilot project in Northern Ireland (Donal McDade)



Evaluation of a GP practice based homeopathy service  (Karen Slade et al) ​



Patient experience of acupuncture provision in a GP practice (Marian Fixler et al) 

Reports published in peer reviewed journals