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11thMay 2017

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Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wins CHKS data quality award

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusthas won the CHKS Top Hospitals programme data quality award 2017. The CHKS Top Hospitals awardscelebrate excellence throughout the UK and are given to acute sector organisations for their achievements in healthcare quality and improvement.

The data quality award is a national award given inrecognition of the importance of clinical coding and data quality, and the essential role they play in ensuring appropriate patient care and financial reimbursement from commissioners.

CHKS, part of Capita Healthcare Decisions, has used over 27 years of experience in the analysis of hospital data to decide the indicators on which each of the Top Hospitals programme awards are judged. Awards are made on the basis of an analysis of publicly available datasets and every NHS acute trust in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is included.

Andy Lockwood, managing director, Capita Healthcare Decisions, said: “The staff and management team atCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust should take pride in having won this award. It is madeon the basis of analysis of impartial indicators and shows a real commitment to improving data qualitywhich is the starting point for improving services for patients.”

The CHKS Top Hospitals programme awards were held in London on the 10th May and hosted by health policy analyst Roy Lilley alongside guest speaker Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE. Over 200 guests attended including leaders from across the healthcare sector including: BMA, NHS Digital, Royal College of Emergency Medicine,NHS Improvement and acute trusts.

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Notes:

1. CHKS, part of Capita plc, is a provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement products and services. We enable providers and commissioners to make better decisions at patient, service, organisation and population level and deliver sustainable improvements in care quality, patient outcomes and service efficiency along the patient pathway. We know health. Over the last 27 years our team of NHS data experts, clinicians and quality managers have worked with more than 400 healthcare organisations to improve population health.

2. The shortlisted trusts were:

  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
  • North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

3. Indicators used were:

  • Mean diagnoses per spell
  • Mean procedures per spell
  • Unspecified primary diagnoses
  • Unspecified secondary diagnoses
  • Unspecified procedures
  • Unrecorded comorbidities
  • Chapter specific CCs
  • Signs and Symptoms

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