NHS Safety Thermometer: Patient Harms and Harm Free Care

"The NHS Safety Thermometer is the measurement tool for a programme of work to support patient safety improvement. It is used to record patient harms at the frontline, and to provide immediate information and analyses for frontline teams to monitor their performance in delivering harm free care."

NHS Safety Thermometer: Patient Harms and Harm Free Care England November 2014 November 2015, official statistics 
Clinical Audit Support Unit
Health & Social Care Information Centre

December 2015

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Statistical process control and interrupted time series: a golden opportunity for impact evaluation in quality improvement

"A key question in quality improvement is ‘What works?’ More and better use of data from SPC-projects can strengthen the evidence base and lead to more effective quality improvement strategies. Applying ITS analysis should be a matter of routine when SPC data are used for impact assessment."

Statistical process control and interrupted time series: a golden opportunity for impact evaluation in quality improvement

A Fretheim, O Tomic
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:748-752 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003756

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The quality of NHS services during the current parliament

"This briefing summarises trends in the quality of NHS care in England since the 2010 general election. "

Swimming against the tide? The quality of NHS services during the current parliament
T Gardner
The Health Foundation
March 2015

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Is the NHS getting safer?

"This overview considers how the NHS has performed over the current parliament in relation to patient safety. We look at data relating to reported incidents and harm, episodes of care free of certain types of harm, and patient and staff perceptions of safety."

Is the NHS getting safer?
J Illingworth
The Health Foundation
March 2015

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Liver Disease Profiles

"The liver disease profiles provide an invaluable resource relating to one of the main causes of premature mortality nationally; a disease whose mortality rates are increasing in England, while decreasing in most EU countries. The local authority profiles will support the development of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and work of Health and Wellbeing Boards presenting local key statistics and highlighting questions to ask locally about current action to prevent liver disease."

Liver Disease Profiles
Public Health England

Access the profiles here.

My NHS: Open data for better services

The Department of Health and NHS England have released a new website that aims to "support transparency and drive quality" by making performance data more available to patients. The My NHS site contains performance statistics for hospitals, social care services, and for public health services and outcomes.

Access the website here.

Video guides to Patient Reported Outcome Measures (videos)

The Health and Social Care Information Centre have produced some brief instructional videos to help you use and access their Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) publications.

Access the videos here.

End of life care profiles for clinical commissioning groups

"These profiles, launched on 28 April 2014, draw together a wide range of information to give an overview of variations in cause and place of death, by age and sex, for each clinical commissioning group (CCG) in England. The profiles will help commissioners and providers of end of life care get a clearer picture of the end of life care needs of their local populations. They will help with the planning and delivery of services and will support drives locally towards improving end of life care."

End of life care profiles for clinical commissioning groups
Public Health England
April 2014

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Dental commissioning statistics

These statistics show the volume of units of dental activity (UDAs) commissioned by Primary Care Trusts as at the end of each quarter, for the proceeding 12 months. Access the statistics here.

National report of the National Hip Fracture Database

"While the challenges of improving post-acute care are recognised as substantial, greatly improving its documentation will provide a basis for comparisons that will be of interest not only to patients and their carers, but to acute and post-acute clinical teams, and to agencies commissioning hip fracture care – agencies which are likely to value cost-effectiveness, especially when it is linked to higher quality care....This Supplement to the National Hip Fracture Database 2012 National Report extends the findings of that Report and should be read in conjunction with it."

The National Hip Fracture Database National Report 2012 - supplement
National Hip Fracture Database
March 2013

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Creating the evidence to support revalidation

"The aim of this project was to assess the value of Hospital Episode Statistics data for the purpose of revalidation."

Hospital episode statistics and revalidation: creating the evidence to support revalidation
A Johal, D Cromwell, J van der Meulen
Royal College of Surgeons, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
January 2013

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Delivering the NHS Safety Thermometer CQUIN 2013/14

"The data from the NHS Safety Thermometer is powerful because it allows us, over time, to establish a baseline against which we can track improvement."

Delivering the NHS Safety Thermometer CQUIN 2013/14
NHS Harm Free Care
December 2012

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Healthcare across the UK

"This report identifies key trends and variations in the delivery of healthcare across the four nations of the UK, and highlights where further examination may help determine those practices that could deliver better value for money."

Healthcare across the UK: a comparison of the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
National Audit Office
June 2012

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Analysis of hospital activity by day of the week

"Our analysis has revealed a discernible pattern in hospital activity. We found that across emergency patients; elective patients; maternity and births; procedures and diagnostics there was significantly lower activity at the weekend."


Insight report: The weekly pulse: Analysis of hospital activity by day of the week
P Robinson
CHKS
June 2012

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Long term conditions compendium of information

"This is the third compendium of information on long term conditions (LTCs) which aims to provide the most up to date data together with a range of case study examples of excellence and innovation from across the country."

Long term conditions compendium of information: third edition
Department of Health
May 2012

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Taking the pulse: attitudes to the health service

"Satisfaction with the NHS overall is at its highest ever level, though the picture in relation to specific services is more mixed." These are the findings of the NatCen Social Research survey into British Social Attitudes.

British Social Attitudes Survey 28
Elizabeth Clery
NatCen Social Research
2011

Read more here. (Choose 9. NHS from the left-hand menu).

Health datasets for economists

"This Compendium of Health Datasets for Economists (ICoHDE) provides the largest collection of English specific datasets available for researchers interested in the field of economics of health and health care."


The interactive compendium of health datasets for economists
University of Oxford
2011

Access the resource here.