NHS North East

North East Quality Observatory
 

Latest NEQOS News

NEQOS has produced an annual review which takes a look at some of our projects during the year 2011/12 and highlights some of our successes.

Read the annual review

NEQOS Advisory Service - Here to help

This service is open for initial first line queries to all clinicians, commissioners and providers requiring advice and support on measuring health care quality. It can be accessed via neqos@nhs.net or phone 0800 046 3449 to leave a message and someone will contact you. Find out more...

Welcome to NEQOS

Since 2009 NEQOS has been providing a quality measurement
service to NHS trusts (both providers and commissioners) across the North East region. These are delivered with high level analytical skills and clinical epidemiological expertise.

We operate a business model in the form of a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with each organisation which provides core services together with tailored bespoke requirements. Key benefits of subscribing to NEQOS are:

  • Quality assured projects
  • High standard of clinical epidemiology
  • Expert interpretation of data
  • Expert local knowledge
  • Independent advice

Read an overview of NEQOS

"NEQOS . . . the place to go for accurate and timely analysis of healthcare data, presented in a way that makes it clear where clinicians need to focus their attention."

Dr Mike Lavender
Consultant in Public Health Medicine
NHS County Durham

Our Work

QOs have become a key part of regional infrastructures set up to drive the quality agenda by making information
and data available to allow frontline quality improvements.

Here in the North East, NEQOS has become a hub for healthcare quality measurement and we deliver an ambitious programme of projects and services to teams and organisations across the region. Using in depth reviews and surveillance measures, we assist organisations when they have particular issues to address and our support has helped organisations build on their existing arrangements to enable local benchmarking whilst also identifying opportunities for quality improvements.