Summary
The QES Drug and Alcohol related Death Review and Surveillance System enables multi-agency collaboration to understand, derive lessons from, and implement action to address and reduce drug and alcohol related deaths. The range of information inputted into the system by multi-agency partners at a local level (i.e. police, ambulance, drug and alcohol service providers) facilitates the tying together of a series of small details to provide one comprehensive view of circumstances surrounding a drug or alcohol related death.
This collection of real-time information from partners is essential in the ability to learn from, and react to, emerging patterns and trends in substance misuse. This ultimately delivers a significant opportunity to identify risk factor groups and demographics and input targeted resource and activity on local, regional and national levels. The DARD Review System brings together both surveillance and reporting functionality with case management features to ensure lessons can be turned into action, and the review process can be followed from start to finish securely within the system.
The QES system offers a considerable time-saving element in the process of reviewing drug or alcohol related deaths. Using an electronic system enables time resource to be allocated elsewhere to implement actions and pull out vital lessons and recommendations, whilst the system takes on the administration of distributing forms, chasing partners, notifying of updates, consolidating chronologies of events and much more. An additional benefit of using an electronic system is the security of sensitive data. QES have extensive experience in providing both health and safeguarding solutions with reliable and robust security to protect data.
Finally, this system can also link to other existing QES systems such as those that monitor, record and report on unexpected deaths including suspected suicides, homeless mortalities and more. This provides users with the ability to connect linked cases, share learning and monitor links among substance misuse, mental health and circumstantial factors such as homelessness. The standardisation of collecting data across other unexpected/sudden deaths acts as an additional advantage as this reporting can go on to provide a wider view of risk factors and common themes
Key Features
High quality functionality has been designed to ensure all information is accessible to the relevant users in real-time. This transparency supports collaboration, communication and cohesiveness:
Easy to navigate system
Intuitively developed as one centralised location to record all data surrounding each individual case
Multi-agency input
Submission and Enquiry Forms enable multi-agency information to be submitted securely to broaden understanding of each case
Automatic consolidation
All enquiry forms from a range of partners are automatically consolidated to bring together one view across all information
Chronology feature
Mass chronology upload feature supports partners in inputting timeline of events, and consolidates all entries
Action Planning
Action planning and tracking enables actions to be assigned, monitored and automatically chased
In-depth reporting
Vast reporting suite displaying real-time data in exportable graphs, charts and heat maps
Robust security
Two-factor authentication, multiple user roles with varying permissions and GDPR compliant throughout
Configurable
Ability to locally configure fields within the system to specify the data to be captured across forms
Vast user group
Become a part of a wide user group across England's local authorities, and share learning via the Community Hub