What will my service gain from using the HoNOS system?
Clinicians can build up a picture over time of their service-users’ patterns of response to interventions and events that might not be easy to achieve without measurement. If ratings are incorporated into care plans then objectives can be quantified. Managers can examine differences between outcomes between different teams and interventions on similar service-user groups. Commissioners can move from a purely activity/structure approach to a more rational purchasing model involving health gain. Routine outcomes measurement involves more than HoNOS or other repeated measures, and development of systems for coding interventions and context move services into a reflective and evidence-based culture that has many other tangible and less tangible benefits. This process “tests” crucial clinical governance systems (e.g. training, information and supervision systems) .
