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Clinical quality

Image: HED clinical quality information on a laptop screen

Clinical quality areas within HED allow your organisation to focus on quality of patient care.

HED offers a range of clinical dashboards and modules which offer dynamic drill down functionality to enable users to understand the root cause of potential problems and optimise case note reviews.

Mortality

Monitoring mortality is an essential part of assuring high quality of clinical care. Standardised mortality models are updated with the most recent national data set every month. HED publishes HSMR monthly and SHMI in monthly and quarterly formats as well as other mortality measures.

Infection control

Benchmark performance nationally against a variety of factors, including:

  • C. Diff
  • MRSA
  • MSSA
  • E-coli

Readmissions

Monitor readmission rate performance over time and against peers. Compare readmissions by weekend versus weekday, CCS diagnosis groups and treatment specialties.

A&E attendance

Determine the number of A&E attendances in comparison to the number of reattendances, attendances left before being seen, seen within four hours and time spent before being seen.

Maternity

Monitor a variety of current maternity CQC indicators including caesarean sections and maternal non-elective readmissions within 42 days of delivery.

National outcomes framework

View trust’s risk assessment compliance, pulmonary embolism (PE) deaths after hospital discharge and VTE related readmission rates.

Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs)

View an overview of trust participation and standardised health gain performance for four clinical procedures covering all NHS hospitals in England.

Data quality

Measure your organisation’s coding depth, eg; comorbidities, diagnosis, of finished consultant episodes in order to review admission patterns and clinical coding quality compared to peers.

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Contact

Any issues or queries are dealt with swiftly by the helpdesk. The training provided has been very useful and has enabled us to roll the tool out across the Trust by utilising the skills of our own staff and material provided by HED to train others.

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Trust