EKOS - a SMART solution
Author: Margaret Metcalfe
Magazine issue: Spring 10
Page numbers: 4-6
Date: 28 February 2010
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In 2000 Margaret Metcalfe’s Community Stroke Teams were asked to find a suitable goal setting system that would give quantifiable information on outcomes to managers. The East Kent Outcome System fitted the bill, as it works in a person-focused way across a variety of timescales with different complexities of clinical need. Margaret traces the evolution of the system in her teams and the many benefits it offers in terms of improved collaboration, flexibility, focus on the client, reflective practice and identification of areas for improvement. She is frustrated that this widely respected system is not written up in the peer reviewed literature. A case example and the teams’ EKOS aims are included and other supporting information is available to Speech & Language Therapy in Practice members.
