CORE IMS offers a range of training and management support for psychological therapy services using the CORE System. Since 2001, CORE IMS
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Has provided CORE software to over 400 UK psychological therapy services involving more than 4000 practitioners and 600,000 clients. |
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Has also delivered over 350 CORE implementation workshops |
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Has amassed and published detailed insight into contributory factors that help services to implement routine CORE data collection into their clinical practice successfully. |
A key conclusion from this work was that using outcome measures on their own is not enough to develop service quality. Typically, fewer than half the clients referred for therapy have pre- and post-therapy measures to inform effectiveness profiling. Moreover, services and individual practitioners have varying degrees of success in introducing routine outcome measurement into their client work. Such findings highlight the imperative for outcome measures to be supported by appropriate training to help secure practitioner engagement and by complementary data to provide contextual information for understanding clients' journeys through therapy.
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CORE implementation training enables practitioners to understand how to use CORE to enhance client management; to secure, develop and grow services; and to optimise assessment, risk management and clinical outcomes monitoring. |
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CORE data management training provides managers with the knowledge and skills to structure and produce CORE reports for stakeholders, to use benchmarking for service delivery and development, and to introduce clinical performance coaching for continuing professional development of practitioners. |
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CORE IMS also provides research consultancy and support for services and organisations in planning, executing and disseminating research, audit and evaluative studies. |
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