The Nursing Staff Minimum Limits Ordinance (PpUGV) has been in force since 1 January 2019. The PpUGV stipulates how many nursing staff must be available for patients in day and evening shifts. This affects all care-sensitive hospital areas such as intensive care medicine, cardiac surgery and cardiology. Non-compliance with the lower limits results in sanctions in accordance with the current sanction agreement. All relevant lower limits for nursing staff and the qualification mix to be met for day and night shifts are defined in the current PpUGV. The qualification mix describes the ratio of nursing staff to nursing assistants. Hospitals will therefore face new challenges in the short term with regard to reporting, documentation and compliance with the lower limits, as well as nursing staff planning.
Support for effective nursing staff management and PpUGV-compliant reporting
In collaboration with the German Heart Centre Berlin (DHZB), KPMG has developed a PpUGV Management Dashboard that supports hospitals in effective nursing staff management and PpUGV-compliant reporting. A user interface was developed to display the staffing situation in real time. This enabled the establishment of continuous monitoring and control. The end product consists of a fully comprehensive control cockpit, an interactive visualisation in QlikView and a reporting function for compliance with the obligation to report to the Institute for the Hospital Remuneration System (InEK).
Help with your questions
If you are asking yourself the following questions, our solution may be of interest to you:
- Is your hospital also facing the challenge of complying with the PpUGV?
- Would you like to display your hospital utilisation visually at a glance?
- Are you looking for ways to provide data (patient and nursing staff data) in an informative, interactive and compliant way?
- Would you like to bundle data volumes from different sources (staff duty rosters, bed occupancy plans, operating theatre plans, shift plans) in a visually appealing way?
- Would you like to make everyday work easier for your employees, especially ward managers, and reduce the administrative workload?
- Are you looking for a high-performance solution that not only prepares data visually, but also makes it available in tabular form for sending status reports (mandatory reporting) at the click of a mouse?
Your advantages
Hospitals can achieve the following benefits:
Transparency and plannability: With the help of real-time data and by adhering to the PpUGV limits, utilisation and staffing levels can be made transparently visible and plannable.
Agility and stability: The PpUGV Management Dashboard is a dynamic tool that enables far-sighted planning of nursing staff and bed occupancy requirements. Annual and monthly overviews of the main factors influencing staffing requirements can be easily created in the dashboard.
Efficiency gains: Thanks to the integrated reporting option in the dashboard, static individual reports no longer need to be kept in Excel. Instead, weekly, monthly and annual overviews can be generated at the click of a mouse. Data deviations can therefore be quickly recognised at a glance.
Internal advantages: Management and employees can focus on value-adding activities.
Decision support: Data visualisation tools provide decision-makers with access to current data and trends at all times and improve the ability to make data-based decisions. Available personnel can thus be scheduled and deployed more efficiently.
Our solution
Our team at KPMG advises you with forward-looking expertise on topics relating to "digital care management" and - in a broader sense - healthcare analytics. We not only rely on digital solutions and many years of industry knowledge, but also have an eye for the big picture when it comes to the digitalisation of the healthcare sector. We don't just rely on isolated solutions, but also promote the networking of systems within an organisation and within the sector.
- Comprehensive requirements analysis: Our aim is to tailor our solution precisely to your requirements. Our broad expertise ranges from project management skills to complex technical strategies and IT solutions.
- Software selection: We select and evaluate the right solution for you from a large business intelligence portfolio, so that our recommendation is a perfect fit for your use case.
- Technical implementation: We turn data into visually prepared analyses and reports. Among other things, we develop customised dashboard solutions and examine the interfaces to any existing solutions. We combine various solutions in one tool so that our nursing staff management dashboard allows you to see and generate staff scheduling, lower nursing staff limits, ward utilisation and status reports at a glance.
- Testing and support services: Once the solution has been programmed and implemented, we run through numerous tests together with your IT department to ensure that the programme functions properly. We are also happy to offer customised support services in order to continuously develop the IT solution according to your wishes and changing requirements.
We will be happy to answer your questions or arrange an initial consultation.
Your contact
Andreas Fachinger
Partner, Consulting, Lighthouse Germany - AI & Data Solutions
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft