Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust wins Quality
of Care Award
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
has won this year’s
CHKS Quality of Care Award - part of the CHKS Top Hospitals
Programme 2010. The programme, which is now in its 10th year, is
the only data-driven set of awards in the UK and celebrates
excellence in the areas of patient safety, quality of care and data
quality.
The CHKS Quality of
Care Award is based on a number of criteria and, unlike other
awards, is not judged by a convened panel. Using publicly available
data-sets, every NHS acute trust is included in the analysis.
Chairman of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Colin
Maclean and Dr Jonathan Fielden, Chief Medical Officer, said: "We
are delighted to have won this prestigious national healthcare
award. This is the result of a real team effort throughout the
Trust,which aims to deliver the best patient experience and best
patient outcomes. We would like to pay tribute to all of our staff
for their hard work. Winning it is all the more significant as it
is based on evidence across a range of quality indicators that add
up to the highest quality healthcare performance.This is the second
major national award the Trust has received in the past two weeks
highlighting the quality of care our patients receive. Whilst it is
great to receive this national recognition, we will continue to
build on this to improve further for the patients we serve."
Jim Coles, director of research, CHKS said: “Patients rely on
their local hospital to provide high quality and appropriate
treatment when they need it. Our Quality of Care Award highlights
those Trusts that are achieving exceptional standards in the
delivery of patient care.”
The CHKS Quality of Care Award is a national award for
excellence in high quality care to patients, appropriate to their
diagnosis. It is based on a number of criteria including the length
of time patients stay in hospital, the rate of emergency
re-admissions and whether the care pathway proceeded as originally
intended.
The indicators for 2010 include:
- risk adjusted mortality index
- readmission rate for patients over 16 years
- risk adjusted length of stay index
- proportion of day case overstays (Basket of 25)
- percentage of elective inpatients admitted on day of
procedure
- percentage of pre-operative bed days for operative
spells
- percentage of elective inpatient admissions with no
procedure
- admitted patients: maximum time of 18 weeks from point of
referral to treatment
- maximum waiting time of four hours in A&E from arrival to
admission, transfer or discharge
- percentage of patients seen within 2 weeks - all suspected
cancers
- discharge to usual place of residence within 56 days of
emergency admission from where there with stroke
- discharge to usual place of residence within 28 days of
emergency admission from there with a hip fracture (neck of femur)
for patients aged 65 and over
- proportion of patients aged 65 or over with fractured neck of
femur operating on or within 2 days of admission.