Benchmark Your Programme
The Benchmarking Website provides a simple and practical tool that allows DBT teams to:
- Collect and visualise outcome data
- Benchmark results against peers and empirical evidence
- Be part of a big project and inform routine DBT practice around the world
Why Benchmark?
Benchmarking is a basis to programme evaluation and continuous quality improvement. Following Intensive Training, the next logical step is to start benchmarking your team and gather data to support the efficacy of your DBT Programme by recording client outcomes at key time points during treatment (you will be provided EQ-5D, BSL and DERS to assess clients on referral, admission & at discharge). Listen to Professor Michaela Swales talk about the advantages of benchmarking in this video:
Improve Your Outcome Data
This website enables DBT Teams to set up an account where they can benchmark their clients’ progress and monitor changes in staff WTE (Whole Time Equivalent) commitment to their programmes to assess their efficiency. Client outcomes are recorded at crucial time points during the treatment programme (at referral, admission, and discharge) as a basis for evaluation and continuous quality improvement. The only information collected is the clients’ self-report measures and no sensitive or personally identifiable information is collected (i.e., age, location, schooling). All the clients added to the website will have a pseudonym automatically generated by the website, thus guaranteeing total confidentiality of the data. Only the DBT team entering the data will know to whom the data belongs.
We are also happy to discuss any concerns with your Information Governance department directly if need be. Programme evaluation is an integral part of providing DBT, and using this tool will help teams gain the necessary support from management in their organisation by presenting statistical evidence of their DBT programme.
National Health Service (NHS) supports the project as part of their investment in enhancing the quality of evidence-based psychological therapies offered to clients in services.

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How To Get Started?

Attend our online or in-person Benchmarking Event to gain valuable insights, track progress, and enhance performance with expert guidance.



















