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Informing Health Check and Foundation Trust applications
CHKS RSS Feed Dartford Hospitals NHS Trust Using: Signpost There were three factors driving Dartford Hospitals NHS Trust's decision to use the Signpost corporate reporting and clinical management...
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Informing commissioning of dementia services
CHKS RSS Feed NHS South East Coast Dementia Programme Using: Bespoke analysis Relevant and meaningful information supports the commissioning of dementia services and is a key priority for the South...
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Engaging clinicians for improving patient safety
CHKS RSS Feed East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust Using: Signpost All clinicians are wary of data and those at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust are no exception. For managers at the...
View ArticleTrusts in the North West scoring highest for day case surgery productivity...
Four out of the five top scoring trusts in the North West for clinical productivity in day case surgery are CHKS clients. The trusts are Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, East Lancashire...
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Best practice leads to safer hospital environment
CHKS RSS Feed Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Instilling a culture of safety throughout the organisation has been a top priority for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust for a number of years. It is this...
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Getting the most from Signpost
CHKS RSS Feed Signpost We asked a number of leading trusts to share their key tips on how they use it to inform strategic and local decisions from resource utilisation and service planning to...
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Board assurance through accreditation
CHKS RSS Feed County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust Using: CHKS Accreditation At County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, the CHKS Accreditation Programme was one of the indicators that had...
View ArticleCHKS Top Hospital Awards in today's HSJ
HSJ Supplement 14.05.09 This supplement celebrates the achievement of the hospitals that have won awards in this year's CHKS 40Top Hospitals programme. The programme was started in 2000 and has...
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Implementing the Dementia Strategy whilst making efficiency savings
CHKS RSS Feed Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Using: Consultancy Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust wanted to improve length of stay and ensure it provided the most appropriate and effective care for...
View ArticleExcessive growth in emergency admissions last winter - fact or fiction?
HSJ Intelligence 18.06.09Was there really an excessive growth in emergency admissions this last winter? A number of client trusts said they experienced an unprecedented rise.
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Accreditation at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital
CHKS RSS Feed Accreditation at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital Using: Accreditation
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Improving patient outcomes at Aneurin Bevan Health Board
CHKS RSS Feed Aneurin Bevan Health BoardOutcome:The risk adjusted mortality ratio at Aneurin Bevan Health Board is now 72 compared with a risk adjusted mortality ratio average of 99 for all hospitals...
View ArticleIHAS turns to CHKS for Quality Assurance Mark
The Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) has contracted CHKS to administer the new Register of Injectable Cosmetic Providers. This government-backed quality assurance registration scheme...
View ArticleDH sets up two new working groups for patient safety and HSMRs
We are delighted to be sitting on two new DH working groups, set up by the National Quality Board. Established to define an NHS-wide, standard HSMR and new patient safety indicators for use in...
View ArticleHospital standardised mortality ratios and their use as a measure of quality
Analysis of the data set which Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs) are based on raises questions about its suitability for this purpose. HSMRs rely on an assumption that the data set is...
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Root cause analysis review
CHKS RSS Feed North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust (Now Belfast Health and Social Care Trust) Using: CHKS Consultancy Root cause analysis review - A review of the circumstances of...
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Residential care home services review
CHKS RSS Feed Review of Care Using: CHKS Consultancy We were engaged by a large provider of nursing and residential care homes in the UK to undertake an independent review of the care provided for a...
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Investigation and incident management training
CHKS RSS Feed "I have learned so much from this course; I knew very little about RCA (Root cause analysis) until this. Although initially I thought it would not be applicable to my role... I was...
View ArticleTake the 2010 Capita Health Service Partners survey for Medical Directors
Analysing doctors' pay and responsibilities, the survey is designed to be completed by Medical Directors, Associate, Assistant or Divisional Medical Directors and Clinical Directors undertaking...
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Providing board assurance to County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
CHKS RSS Feed County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Using: Insight Providing board assurance to County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Outcome CHKS intelligence is providing...
View ArticleThe DH National review of the HSMR
The DH National review of the HSMR CHKS has welcomed the announcement by the Department of Health that, subject to statistical testing and modelling trials, the NHS will adopt a new measure of...
View ArticleCalderdale and Huddersfield NHS FT wins the HSJ Acute organisation of the...
CHKS Managing Director, Jason Harries congratulates the winner of the HSJ Acute Organisation of the Year Award. Find out what it means for the staff at winner Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS...
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Facilitating clinical engagement and quality improvement
CHKS RSS Feed Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Using: Q-lab Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust offers a comprehensive range of acute hospital based services to around 270,000 people in Dartford,...
View ArticleCHKS customers see the benefit of further investment in latest healthcare...
07.02.11 - CHKS customers see the benefit of further investment in latest healthcare intelligence solutionsFurther investment in its suite of healthcare intelligence solutions means that CHKS clients...
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Helping NHS North East ensure its providers meet mortality targets
CHKS RSS Feed NHS North East Using: online monitoring tools and expert consultancy NHS North East is responsible for ensuring that quality and improvement targets are met and that all NHS...
View ArticleCHKS launches Top Hospitals programme 2011
28.02.11 - CHKS launches Top Hospitals programme 2011 CHKS has launched its Top Hospitals programme for 2011 with over 130 organisations taking part in its client awards. In addition CHKS will be...
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Informing quality improvement and patient outcomes
CHKS RSS Feed HCA International Limited Using: Signpost
View ArticleUpdate 1: An Introduction to Mortality Indicators
Update 1What is a standardised mortality ratio? A simple count of deaths alone does not take account of the difference in size of hospitals. Un-adjusted mortality is a calculation created by dividing...
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How Capita Surveys and Research is helping York St. John University
CHKS RSS Feed York St. John University
View ArticleReport 1 - What makes a Top Hospital? Quality and Change
CHKS, together with its editorial advisory group, has produced the first in a series of What makes a top hospital? reports. Our first report examines quality improvement and change - asking how...
View ArticleReport 2 - What makes a Top Hospital? Safety
CHKS has launched the second report in its What makes a top hospital? series. The new report is on safety and highlights examples of acute sector trusts that have made significant improvements in...
View ArticleSharing best practice and celebrating excellence across the NHS
With a shared issue of a high HSMR, eight trusts in the North West and one in Yorkshire came together in a collaborative facilitated through The Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA). They all wanted to...
View ArticleUpdate 2: SHMI – the new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Index
1. What is SHMI?The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Index (SHMI) is the new indicator to be used as the national standard for reporting mortality across the NHS in England.
View ArticleUpdate 3: SHMI – Summary Hospital-level Mortality Index (SHMI)
We wanted to update you on the latest developments of the new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) following an update from the NHS Information Centre (IC) today (23rd September).
View ArticlePrime Minister, David Cameron visits the CHKS Most Improved Hospital Trust...
05.10.11 - Prime Minister, David Cameron, has visited South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, winner of the CHKS Most Improved Hospital Trust award 2011. The award is made for continuous improvement...
View ArticleThe differences between The CHKS Risk Adjusted Mortality Index (RAMI) and the...
A mortality ratio is described as the number of observed deaths divided by the number of predicted deaths. The technical definitions for observed deaths and predicted deaths vary from model to model.
View ArticleSummary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator Q&A
The Information Centre has launched a new Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) for non-specialist acute trusts. The new indicator will cover all deaths of patients admitted to hospital...
View ArticleYour SHMI and what it means for your Trust
What is the SHMI and what will it measure? The SHMI is a generic indicator of a Trust’s overall mortality rate. The aim of the SHMI is to assess whether the mortality rate at an individual Trust is...
View ArticleNew report highlights leadership qualities found in top hospitals
CHKS has launched the third report in its What makes a top hospital? series - focussing on leadership. Over the last 20 years CHKS has seen many examples of excellence in the delivery of healthcare....
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Providing external assurance to trustees and commissioners
CHKS RSS Feed Queenscourt Hospice Using: CHKS Accreditation Online Queenscourt Hospice, in Southport Merseyside, is an independent charitable, voluntary body funded by donations and the NHS – although...
View ArticleCHKS to host fringe session at NICON (Northern Ireland Confederation) Annual...
Drawing on almost 25 years experience of working with NHS trusts, from hosting our Top Hospital Awards programme, and from judging the Acute Organisation of the Year award for the Heath Service...
View ArticleHow CHKS helped AQuA’s Mortality Collaborative better understand the reason...
The Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) is a membership healthcare improvement body for North West England. Its mission is to stimulate innovation, spread best practice and support local...
View ArticleNew analysis reveals the extent of the dementia challenge facing hospitals
New analysis reveals the extent of the dementia challenge facing hospitalsCHKS has found that people with dementia are more likely to have an increased length of stay, greater risk of falls and a...
View ArticleWe have launched the CHKS Annual Conference in Ireland 2012
Achieving quality through accreditation Date: 6th November 2012 Venue: Best Western Premier Academy Plaza Hotel, Dublin View the programme here>> Register your place here>> Focusing on...
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