National mental health quality profiles

The Mental Health Quality Profiles were published earlier this week and show for individual trusts how they compare across a range of quality indicators encompassing the domains of the Outcomes Framework

NHS Institute Engagement Cycle

A refreshed Engagement Cycle resource for commissioners of health services

This free web based resource is available to help you engage patients, carers and public in decisions about healthcare provision.

Refreshed for a new NHS landscape, it offers a structured framework with online access to information, resources and case studies.

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Maintaining Quality Through Transition

This guide, produced by the National Quality Board, sets out the steps to be taken to ensure that any risk to quality is reduced during transition and that business continuity is maintained is published. It ensures that information about quality is not lost as organisations change.

Long term conditions compendium - third edition

The Department of Health has published the third edition of the Long Term Conditions Compendium of Information. It is aimed at commissioners as well as health and social care professionals, to provide the evidence for improving care and outcomes for people with long term conditions (LTCs). It updates the second edition of the compendium published in January 2008.

This document contains the latest statistical data on long term conditions, links to the LTC QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) workstream and provides data from the ongoing evaluation of the Whole System Demonstrator Programme on telehealth and telecare, which supports the delivery of 3 Million Lives. It also showcases examples of innovative projects across the country where organisations and communities are pushing the boundaries to deliver improvements in LTC care.

Sharing your project with others - NHS Institute

As part of NHS Live the NHS Institute has set up a project sharing section on their website which the health community can access. Register your project and access other projects and ideas. Click here to go to the website.

Transforming Patient Experience: the essential guide

Published by NHS Institute

Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator - briefing for Commissioning Organisations

A briefing developed by North East Quality Observatory System (NEQOS) on the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator which was released by the NHS Information Centre on 27th October 2011.

Summary economic analysis in the North East region for VTE risk assessments: Quarter 4

The purpose of the summary economic analysis is to demonstrate the potential financial impact implementing the service change measured by the CQUIN indicator “% of all adult in-patients who have had a venous-thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment on admission to hospital” which is a nationally mandated CQUIN indicator and part of the 2010/11 North East CQUIN scheme. This is primarily aimed at informing the North East SHA commissioning Primary Care Organisations (PCOs)

Template specification for LTC patient survey

Template specification for procuring patient survey.

Exploration of impact of switching from barium enema to CT colonography

Final report from project commissioned by NEQOS to look at the impact of switching from barium enema to CT colongraphy.

Child Health Profiles - North East

The Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) has published child health profiles for the North East.

Regional Maternity Survey Office annual report

The RMSO 27th annual report is now available.

Latest Learning Disabilities Observatory reports published

Three new reports have been published by the LDO.

Three new national end of life care publications available

Three publications on elements of end of life have been published by the South West Public Health Observatory on behalf of the national End of Life Care Intelligence Network.

NEQOS Surveillance Protocol

An agreed protocol to be actioned if potential outlier trust is identified as part of a review of regional or national indicators. The protocol will only apply if the issue may affect patient safety.

NHS Data Dictionary

Health and social care is a huge and complex area – and the information it generates is even vaster. Navigating through the maze of material to get the information you need is often time-consuming at best and frustrating at worst – from identifying whether the information exists, to finding the right person to explain what it actually all means. This guide is a useful starting point in signposting what health and social care information is available, and where to get it from.

Regional Repository of Quality Metrics

The Regional Repository of Quality Metrics is a Microsoft Access database which can be used to identify useful metrics. The database contains metrics from CQUIN schemes, the Regional Basket of Indicators project (which included metrics from Our Vision Our Future and Safer Sare North East) and Accelerated Solution Events (ASEs). The database will constantly evolve and will shortly be updated to include metrics from the recent Fast Focus Events (FFEs). If you cannot find an indicator in this database which matches your needs then NEQOS will be happy to facilitate a trawl of national indicators. If you need further help please use the advisory service contact details on the NEQOS homepage.

Model Specification for Clinical Comparators and Benchmarking

The specification document was produced following a commissioned piece of work to determine the requirements for a comparative and benchmarking information service in order to; read more

Kings Fund - Choosing a high-quality hospital

Choosing a high-quality hospital explores how information can help patients to make informed choices. It is based on a research study, which began with a series of focus group discussions, the results of which informed the design of an online experiment.

Review of Mental Health Quality Accounts

Quality Account is an annual report which each NHS provider organisation publishes and sets out a summary of the quality of NHS healthcare services provided by that organisation in the past year, as well as the priority areas where they are planning to improve quality in the coming year. This spreadsheet is the result of a review into the 2009/10 Quality Accounts for Mental Health Trusts across England. The work was commissioned by Tees, Esk & Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust and input was also received from Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. In total 59 Mental Health Trust Quality Accounts have been summerised. The format outlined in the Quality Account Toolkit has been used as a template for this analysis.