Trust rated one of the CHKS 40 Top Hospitals 2012 for the seventh year running

Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has again been rated one of the CHKS 40 Top Hospitals. The CHKS Top Hospitals Programme, now in its eleventh year, is the only data-driven set of awards in the UK using analysis of nationally available data sets to determine winners in each category.

Philippa Slinger, Chief Executive, of the Trust said; “This externally judged award is given for good performance across a range of important patient safety indicators including mortality rates, emergency re-admissions and length of stay. The Trust has received this award several years running and it is fantastic that we have it again. There is no doubt that the thanks and credit should go to all our staff who spend every day making sure our patients get high quality, effective care.”

The winners were announced at an awards ceremony in London on 1 May, hosted by CHKS, the UK’s leading independent provider of healthcare intelligence and quality improvement services.

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Notes to editors:
The CHKS 40Top Awards are based on the evaluation of 23 indicators of clinical effectiveness, health outcomes, efficiency, patient experience and quality of care.
Revised annually to take into account newly-available performance information, this year's indicators include:
• Reported C-difficile rate for patients aged 65 and over
• Day case rate (relative weighted performance across BADS directory)
• Day case conversion to inpatient rate (vs national rates, case mix adj per BADS)
• Depth of coding (not case mix adjusted)
• Percentage of coded episodes with signs and symptoms as a primary diagnosis
• Percentage of uncoded episodes
• Inpatient survey (overall care question)
• Percentage of outpatient first appointments not attended (specialty adjusted)
• Patient reported outcomes score (across 4 procedures, per EQ5D)
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital (>16; 28 days)
• Emergency readmission within 28 days of discharge following hip fracture (65+)
• Percentage of elective admissions where planned procedure not carried out (not patient decision)
• Reference Cost Index (RCI)
• Summary Hospital-level Mortality Index (SHMI)
• Staff survey (overall job satisfaction question)
• Risk adjusted length of stay
• Risk adjusted mortality index
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital following AMI within 28 days
• Rate of emergency readmission to hospital within 14 days - COPD
• Percentage of elective inpatients admitted on day of procedure
• Patient misadventure rate (ICD-based)
• Percentage of patients >65 with fractured neck of femur with pre-op LoS <=2
• Unnecessary admissions via A&E (zero LoS as % emergency)