CQC Adult Inpatient Survey 2012

www.cqc.org.uk

The CQC have now published the results of the survey of inpatients in England that ran between September 2012 and January 2013.

The survey had over 64,500 participants who had at least one overnight stay (there were some exclusions including psychiatric and maternity admissions).

Results

• National summary of results
• Full comparison with the 2011 survey
• A-Z List of participating trusts and their results
• Technical details of how trusts were scored

Local Trusts

• Northampton General Hospital Results
• Northampton General Hospital Benchmark Report (comparing local results with national data)

• Kettering General Hospital Results
• Kettering General Hospital Benchmark Report 

Mid Staffs report published

The final report of the public inquiry into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust (the Francis Report) has now been published:

• Executive Summary
• Volume 1: Analysis of evidence and lessons learned (part 1)
• Volume 2: Analysis of evidence and lessons learned (part 2)
• Volume 3: Present and future, annexes
• Key facts and figures

You can also find more information on the Inquiry's web site.

Further reading

• The King's Fund - The Francis Inquiry: creating the right culture of care
• The Francis Inquiry - Storify

Reactions and responses

• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
• Action Against Medical Accidents
• Age UK
• Alzheimer's Society
• British Medical Association
• British Prime Minister's Office
• Care Quality Commission
• Carers UK
• Centre for Innovation in Health Management
• Department of Health
• Foundation Trust Network
• General Medical Council
• General Pharmaceutical Council
• The Health Foundation
• Health Service Ombudsman
• Help the Hospices
• House of Commons Health Select Committee
• Institute of Healthcare Management
• The King's Fund
• Local Government Association
• Macmillan Cancer Care
• Marie Curie Cancer Care
• Monitor
• National Council for Palliative Care
• Nursing & Midwifery Council
• National Voices
• NAVCA
• NHS Alliance
• NHS Commissioning Board
• NHS Confederation
• The Nuffield Trust
• The Patients Association
• Reform
• Royal College of General Practioners
• Royal College of Midwives
• Royal College of Nursing
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Royal College of Physicians
• Royal College of Surgeons
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Queen's Nursing Institute
• Skills for Care
• TUC
• UK Faculty of Public Health
• Unite

Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2012

The Dr Foster 2012 Hospital Guide is now available, showing how all the acute trusts in England are rated.

Efficiency & Mortality scores for all acute trusts

 

Here are the reports on the trusts in Northamptonshire:

• Kettering General Hospital
• Northampton General Hospital
• BMI Three Shires (private)

You can read or download the whole report which covers the current state of the NHS, or just the My Hospital Guide Efficiency & Mortality 2012 

You can also search by trust, individual hospital or surgical procedure, and use your own postcode to identify organisations nearest to you.

2011 NHS inpatient survey results

This survey looked at the experiences of over 70,000 people who were admitted to NHS hospitals around England.

• National summary
• Historical comparisons with previous surveys
• Survey results by NHS trust
• Further information and related documents

You can find results for the local Trusts here:

• Kettering General Hospital 
• Northampton General Hospital 

Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2011

The latest Hospital Guide has now been published by Dr Foster and you can find the detail on the NHS Choices web site. The guide reviews hospital mortality figures, and patient comments, and focuses on hospital admissions at the weekend.

One of our local Trusts, Northampton General Hospital, features in the list of hospitals with higher than expected death rates. This is questioned by the Trust's Medical Director who argued  the actual numbers of deaths at NGH were among the lowest in the East Midlands and the Trust did not understand why Dr Foster had set the number of expected deaths so low in relation to other similar hospitals. In response the Trust has also set up a group to review every patient death  that occurs in the hospital.

The full guide is available on the Dr Foster web site.