DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) is developing performance measures for mental healthcare, collectively known as Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS).
Details of MHMDS were discussed at a workshop hosted by SCH. The data set will enable SCH to understand and compare health outcomes from multiple providers across the health system and monitor the successful delivery of mental health priorities.
The workshop was led by Kevin Smith, Clinical Projects Manager, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Associate of Maudsley International. It aimed to generate consensus on the clinical data set with Qatar’s key healthcare organisations, including Primary Health Care Corporation, Hamad Medical Corporation and National Health Insurance Company.
Smith said, “MHMDS will support the delivery of Qatar’s National Mental Health Strategy by providing comprehensive national activity data at the patient level. It allows a better understanding of the population’s need for mental health services by generating high grade health intelligence. This will inform research, service planning, service improvement and performance management.”
MHMDS will contain record-level data about the care of children, adults and the elderly using mental health services and help determine the level of mental healthcare needed.
The data set brings together key information from mental healthcare pathways captured on clinical systems as part of patient care.
Critically, the data will enable SCH to understand outcomes of treatment by people in contact with mental health services and enable Qatar to benchmark those outcomes against similar services internationally.
As part of a quality information system, the data will provide necessary foundation for clinical research and practice, with access to robust, comprehensive, nationally consistent and comparable information.
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