Clinical outcomes
Our clinical effectiveness work is based on widespread local and national audits along with a focus on improving mortality rates and embedding the national patient reported outcome measures (PROMS).
Recent work to improve clinical outcomes has included:
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developing a new clinical pathway for patients admitted with a fractured neck of femur (broken hip);
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establishing a heart attack centre with 24 hour and seven-day-a week emergency angioplasty treatment;
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opening two additional paediatric intensive care beds and seven additional cardiac high dependency unit beds;
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producing a timely, typed summary to GPs on their patient’s plan of care on discharge from hospital;
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setting up a rapid response service to improve outcomes for patients by using clotbusting treatment.
Read more about our improved outcomes for patients and our priorities for the future in our Quality account|.
Our mortality rates can be compared with other hospitals through the Patient safety measures from Dr Foster quality account 2008-09|.
To compare our performance with other hospitals, see Clinical effectiveness measures from Dr Foster Quality account 2008-09|.